Thursday, March 20

Mash-ups

It's so wierd to realize that while I've definitely used mash-ups created by others, I could actually make one myself??? I put Sequoya on the project play mapbuilder. I've also used mash-ups to create a really cool slide show at slide.com
Have a look. It's a combination of flickr.com and slide.com Also, as I watch it I think - wow, it'd be even cooler if I could attach old-time piano music to it so just like a silent movie it would play piano music simultaneously - mash-up again? I'll also just add that Lee LeFever and the Common Craft Show is a bit more plain English than this week's video creator. I visited some library mash-ups, and I'll visit some more and have a look at the instructions for making mash-ups. My favorite library mash-up was the one with the book covers carousel that link people to the catalog entry with summary - that's a really nice way to display a topical bibliography or, come to think of it, it would be a great way to highlight the book discussion kits for 4th through 9th graders that we have at MPL. A carousel of book covers with a link to a summary and directions for checking out the kit...hmm. Gotta learn more about this.

1 comment:

PandaLibrarian said...

Hi Karen,

What a great slide show! I'm going to pass along that tool to our other PP Coordinators. And, I like the idea of adding music... Let me know when you've got it ready!

Great ideas for using mashups at your library - let me know if you create one!

Keep on playing!

Jean