This is a collborative site that also sends cards. What seta this apart from Blurtt is that this tool also acts as a social networking tool that others can share in your creativity. I immediatly thought of my "Canterbury Tale Project" that I do when reading Chaucer. The first step is that each individual student must creat a character modeling after how Chaucer uses characterization in the prologue to introduce the piligrims. The next step involves the collborations of groups. Each student will choose up tp three other people to work with, they then exchange their characters for each team member to evaluate. By doing so each member is lending a hand in the developing of this character and brainstorming ways that each of their characters could interact. This is where mashup would be the perfect web tool to use. My students could creat their characters and then share with their group members and each group members can comment right on their teammates, facebook, flickr, or simply go on youtube. As the teacher I can monitor the progress from the comforts of my laptops and make comments as well.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI am the founder and CEO of Mashup Arts, and I was very pleased to read your post. The intersections of creativity and collaboration with a shared workspace is one of our central themes, as is the reuse of "the good stuff" by the community. I would be very interested to see how this works for you, and in the words of a teacher who is using it for projects here in
Canada ... it is so much easier to get my students involved in a project that touches Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, as opposed to "make a poster."
Best of Luck,
shaun.macdonald@mashuparts.com
shaun.macdonald@gmail.com