Mashing Up the PLE RSS Edition Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK
Dec 17, 2014
Mashing Up the PLERSS Edition
Tony Hirst
Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK
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The user context
Figure:ground
• Personal• Portable• Social• Lesson level
• Institutional• Monolithic• Private• Course level
Portable content for personal learning environments?
Content
Structure
Context
Pacing
So let's mash it up...
...mash it up
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If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...
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“Simple logic circuits used to connect together more complex circuits which are not perfectly compatible.”
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Blogged uncourses
• Category based blog
• “Syllabus” outlined as a set of topics to be covered
• Blog posts broadly themed by week, but free to wander…
• Category and tag based feeds mean the “uncourse” is “self-disaggregating”
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Uncourse blog emergent link structure
http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/
category/game-design/
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tag/animation/
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Search glue:
http://live.comjust add &format=rss
Where's the feed?
Where's the feed?
Glue Logic
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/xmltools/dwCommentFeedsOPML.php
aka http://tinyurl.com/4vq4nt
Presentation glue:
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/opmldashboard/
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle
Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment
Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment
Pipework
- search and filtering- maps- page scraping and APIs- visualisation
http://pipes.yahoo.com
http://ouseful.info