Thing 5 - Mashup

My mashup is all about Abby's summer vacation. To be honest, as I started this thing, I really struggled with the idea of a mashup and what it really is. After reviewing the content on Dr. Cozart's sight as well as talking with a few colleagues, I think I finally figured it out (and realized I was really overthinking things). :) I downloaded the app PicFrame on my iPhone and then used pictures that we had taken over the summer to plug into my mashup. It was fun to work with as well as edit the pictures within the frame (and quite easy!). I then saved my mashup onto my photos on my phone....that is where the second challenge came in. I thought if I just emailed it to myself I could easily upload it. For whatever eason, when I downloaded the picture from my inbox, it would not download as a jpeg and therefore I couldn't upload to my website. I ended up uploading it to Flickr and then turning around and dropping it into the blog from Flickr. Now that I have experienced mashups, this might be a neat project to do with students where they would use the application to group like things or could somehow use as a publishing tool for digital stories maybe? I could see where this would be a cool resource, easy to use for the kids and something I need to spend more time thinking about how it could be used.