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Mashup and Online Tutorial Paper

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This is just a reminder to please create a link on your blog to your Mashup when you are finished. Your mashup contains the following items

  1. Your Google Map
  2. Chat Widget
  3. The bookmarks you subscribed to using a Social Bookmarking site
  4. A link to your RSS Feed and Blog
  5. Optional item – examples include weather report, images from flickr/picasso, twitter posts, etc.
  6. Optional item

For the online tutorial paper you will do the writing portion on your blog and turn in the rest of the assignment in on paper.

For example, if your tutorial would be a blog, video, website or flash presentation:

  1. write about the audience, subject matter, delivery method on your blog
  2. create an outline about the major points and hand it in on a piece of paper (you can choose to just write this up in words if you prefer)
  3. draw two sketches that represent two different pages in the website, blog, video or flash presntation.

If you select a podcast replace step 3 above with a short script on how you would introduce the tutorial and what it is about. Such as

We will taking a look at how to create an account in Google Reader and subscribing to a feed. The first thing you will want to do is to goto the following URL:  http://www.google.com/reader. After going here you will want to create an account by …. Yada Yada Yada

Mashup Information

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Please feel free to use the mashup, I created as a model as you finish yours. Please keep in mind that the example mashup does not have all of the components in it that are required for your assignment. Please take a look at the syllabus for more information. If the social bookmarking web site you used in class does not include a way to display your bookmarks on your mashup feel free to display my bookmarks on your mashup. You can do this by copying and pasting the following html code:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/Patrick?title=My%20Delicious%20Bookmarks&icon=m&count=5&sort=date&tags&extended&name&showadd”>
</script>

If you have an account with delicious here is how you can display your bookmarks on your mashup.

  1. Log into delicious
  2. select the settings link in the upper right hand corner
  3. under the Blogging heading select the tag rolls link
  4. copy and paste the html code that appears in the text frame

In addition to creating your mashup you also need to add an additional item tag to your RSS Feed that directs people to your mashup. Here is an example of the XML that, I would need to add to my RSS feed to direct people to my mashup.

<item>

<title>Mashup</title>

<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com/s603/mashup.html</link>

<description>This is one of the assignments that I created for S603 Emerging Technologies and liberties.</description>

</item>

This code will need to placed directly between the closed </item> and closed </channel> tags of your RSS Feed.

Here is what my complete RSS Feed would look like with two items:

<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>

<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>
<channel>

<atom:link href=”http://patrickrunfit.com/s603/patrick.xml” rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />

<title>Patrick Patterson</title>

<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com</link>

<description>My personal website</description>

<item>

<title>Resume</title>

<link>http://patrickrunfit.com/resume.html</link>

<description>Patricks Resume</description>

</item>

<item>

<title>Mashup</title>

<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com/s603/mashup.html</link>

<description>This is one of the assignments that I created for S603 Emerging Technologies and liberties.</description>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Thursday – Social Bookmarking/Networking

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We will be talking about social bookmarking and networking during Wednesdays class. Before diving into these topics we will have a guest speak from the Information Commons Chanitra Bishop. Chanitra has graciously offered to talk about how technology is being used in the Information Commons. After getting an oppurtunity to ask questions we we begin taking a look at social bookmarking websites. After discussing briefly their features and looking at library examples we will start working on the social bookmarking assignment, which is due on Tuesday, May 26.

With having so many social bookmarking websites to look at you will be randomly assigned one to look at from the following:

The social networkorking portion of the class we will be discussing how libraries are using these tools and look at some examples. After briefly discussing stoical networking we will split up into three different groups. Each group will create a social networking group for the class on one of the following web sites: facebook, ning, or myspace.