Your collage might show a book from Amazon, a YouTube video and a page from a blog or web site. Create a Mashup. Mashups let you combine and remix information, media, content, web applications and services in new ways. Making a mashup promotes perceiving information in new ways and is a learning experience in itself. Two mashup platforms are Pipes and Scrapplet. Scrapplet uses a drag and drop approach for mashing up content, particularly from social media sites. Buzz up! There are so many cool ways to learn online now. Ask a Question. MORE >>

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Semantic annotation of multimedia learning objects is the topic addressed in the paper entitled “Semantic annotation of video fragments as learning objects: a case study with YouTube videos and the Gene Ontology” by Elena Garca-Barriocanal, Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso and Miltiadis Lytras. The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. Laskri. MORE >>

sites like Pinterest, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook. It is attempting to mash up the user experience of current Web 2.0 You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: There are those who can’t avoid the temptation of beer, salt and sugary snacks at night and there are people like me who treat new learning and collaboration platforms infectiously. wish I could turn my eyes away from these calorie-induced sites or applications, but I just can’t. Perhaps at the core I yearn to learn, but that’s another post for another day. How It Works. What Works. MORE >>

YouTube, Scribd, Slideshare. Overlay and mashups. What can we do now with information that we could not do in the past? I’ve abused Kauffman’s concept of the adjacent possible by applying it to the new opportunities, untapped potential, and levels of complexity, that arise with the development of something new. In this case, the “something new&# is the ways in which new tools allow us to mess around with information. I’ve compiled a list of nine attributes or new possibilities that new technologies, especially the internet, enable. What am I missing? Embed. MORE >>

Virtual Worlds III is in full swing up in New York and around the blogosphere. The mash-up between real-time tagging and NETWORKed Virtual spaces will jack up knowledge accidents and drive the immediacy of access to key information and interaction with key people around a given task or activity. Later that SAME AFTERNOON the Active Worlds booth was demoing a 3D Facebook page mash-up that someone had sent them. Here is the 2minute 30 second romp through the model on YouTube The outcome here is that truly NETWORKed Virtual Spaces emerge. MORE >>