Explore+Map+Mashing+Links

//This is a collection of suggested links to help you begin exploring map mashing. You can find 100's more links by visiting sites such as [|Google Maps Mania] ([|http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)] or searching Google for map mashups.//

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=Examples (Organized by Media Type)=


 * [|Most Popular Mashups]
 * **Images:**
 * [|Alphalearner] - Rudimentary mashup that generates image strips based on the letter you select
 * [|Bluesfear Worm] - Ongoing graffiti-like online mashup created by artists (some parts of the mashup are more successful than others)
 * [|GeoGreeting] - Type in a message and it will find features of the earth that look like the letters you have typed, plot the message on a Google map, and display it.
 * [|Reunion 5] - Worth 1000 contest in which 2 masterworks are combined to form a new, unified whole
 * **Images & Text:** [|Grafik Dynamo] - RSS feeds generate random image/text mashups in comic strip style
 * **Audio/Music:**
 * [|Karen's Mashups] - Teacher mashes up other people's podcasts every week to create her own podcast related to a particular theme
 * [|Over the Confluence of Giants] - Very smooth mashup made from 5-6 different songs;
 * [|United States of Pop] - Mashup made from 25 of the most popular songs from 2007 by same DJ(Earworm)
 * [|Green Day & Oasis Mashup Video] -
 * **Multimedia:** [|Dave Werner's Portfolio]
 * **Video:**
 * [|One Semester of Spanish Love Song Mashup] - Mashup created from student videos that were imitations or video responses to [|this video].
 * [|Titanic Sequel] mashup created from over 10 different videos.
 * [|Waiting on the World to Change] - Mashup of audio, video, newspapers, and images that comments on deafness

=Examples (Organized by Subject Area)=

Art

 * [|Bluesfear Worm] - Ongoing graffiti-like online mashup created by artists (some parts of the mashup are more successful than others)
 * [|Fine Art Mashups] - Combines famous paintings with superheroes
 * [|Grafik Dynamo] - RSS feeds generate random image/text mashups in comic strip style
 * [|Reunion 5] - Worth 1000 contest in which 2 masterworks are combined to form a new, unified whole
 * [|Stained Glass Collage] - Allows you to upload photos from Flickr into stained glass templates and share them with friends

Dance

 * [|Great Dance: Mashups Archive]

Fashion

 * [|Project Runway] - Preloaded fashion clips, off-screen clips, music, and special effects that you can lay in tracks to create and share your own video mashups from the show

Journalism

 * [|A Fair(y) Use Tale] - Disney movies mashed up to comment on copyright and fair use guidelines

Language Arts/Literacy

 * [|Alphalearner] - Rudimentary mashup that generates image strips based on the letter you select


 * [|Bookrags - Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-up] - Students can create their own poetry mashups from Shakespeare's sonnets with this interactive tool


 * [|Google Lit Trips (The Yellow Balloon)] - Use mashups made with Google Earth and famous lit. to create virtual field trips (students "fly" to the various locations) and student podcasts. Site organized by grade levels (Kindergarten through Higher Ed) with lots of different kinds of literature represented.


 * [|Shaking Up Shakespeare] - Very well-thought out blog post that describes the pedagogical decisions behind this teacher's plans for using web 2.0 technologies in an AP English class


 * [|StoryMapping: Projects] - A variety of projects that seek to involve students in social activism via map mashups that tell digital stories

Music

 * [|Green Day & Oasis Mashup Video]


 * [|Over the Confluence of Giants] - Very smooth mashup made from 5-6 different songs


 * [|Pop Danthology] - Mashup of 50 pop songs from 2012; author credits instrumental and vocals throughout the video; technically well-executed, but no real storyline and some images/lyrics are too suggestive for the classroom


 * [|United States of Pop] - Mashup made from 25 of the most popular songs from 2007 by same DJ(Earworm)

Professional Development

 * [|Karen's Mashups] - Teacher mashes up other people's podcasts every week to create her own podcast related to a particular theme

=Social Studies= = =
 * [|Access Denied] - Maps censorship of web 2.0 sites from around the world and provides information and links re: the rationale behind each case and its resolution


 * [|StoryMapping: Projects] - A variety of projects that seek to involve students in social activism via map mashups that tell digital stories


 * [|Sunlight Foundation - Congress 2.0] - Contest-winning mashups that draw on political and legislative data


 * [| United States Presidents]

= = =Examples (Organized by Teacher Purpose)=


 * Create a base of digital literacy
 * Demonstrate conceptual understanding (movie trailers)
 * [|Shaking Up Shakespeare]
 * Develop critical thinking skills
 * [|Mibazaar] - Blog devoted to mashups of data related to education (and many other fields)
 * Encourage cognitive flexibility through creativity
 * [|Karen's Mashups]
 * [|Reunion 5] - Worth 1000 contest in which 2 masterworks are combined to form a new, unified whole
 * Engage students in social activism and critical commentary
 * [|A Fair(y) Use Tale]
 * [|StoryMapping: Projects]
 * [|Waiting on the World to Change] - Mashup of audio, video, newspapers, and images that comments on deafness
 * Expand students' experience with the world (virtual field trips)
 * [|Access Denied] - Maps censorship of web 2.0 sites from around the world and provides information and links re: the rationale behind each case and its resolution
 * [|Google Lit Trips (The Yellow Balloon)]
 * Foster the development of transliteracy skills
 * [|Fine Art Mashup]
 * Increase the relevance of your lessons
 * [|Map Your Ancestors]
 * Represent information in more powerful ways
 * [|Presidential History]
 * [|Ucrime] - Mashup that tracks crime for 200 different universities across the U.S. (organized by state, then by university)