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//Ideas to help you think about how you might use a mashup in your classroom//

Have your students map their vacations - Map altitudes along their route


 * Ideas for using Mashups in Language Classes -** contributed by user:chericem1


 * Ask students to investigate cultural products, practices, and perspectives from the target cultures and map them, including short descriptions and photos for each one. You could do any number of spin-offs of this, such as having them map regional differences in food, holidays, music, non-verbal communication, or even vocabulary.
 * They could also map the locations included in a novel or other literary work, along with information about what happened in the story in that particular location.
 * Mashups would be great for helping students to practice giving directions and using prepositions of location. Students could create scavenger hunts by writing clues in the target language that would lead their peers from one location to another on the map in order to find some secret or little treasure.
 * Alternatively, the teacher could create an info. gap activity (2 maps, each with different info., students must ask questions in order to obtain the info. missing from their map from their partner, and vice versa).
 * Students could also create "tours" of their local communities in the target language, or could collaboratively map all the locations in their communities where they have seen or used the target language.
 * Mashups could also be used as a stimulus for narrating in various tenses. Students could map key events from their childhood and insert photos and narration to practice the various past tenses. They could map things they would like to do in the future, or could even state things they did but would do differently if they had the chance to do them again.
 * Map mashups would be a great way to have students introduce themselves at the beginning of the year--each could create a "pin" on a collaboratively constructed map that contains an audio or video introduction of themselves (My name is . . ., I'm from . . ., I'm --- years old, I like . . ., I dislike . . . , etc.)