I have been thinking about the produsage assignment lately, and I am fairly certain that I want to create some type of mashup as a final product. But what web-based resource can I produce to promote learning in the Web 2.0 environment? One really good source of information regarding all things technological is ReadWriteWeb and I have the app installed on my iphone, which allows me to read snippets of daily articles related to the web and technology. One of the articles described the BBC's use of semantic web technology to aggregate data for its coverage of the 2010 World Cup. This article sent me looking for ways to extract and use semantic data for this class and I found a new service called Extractiv. The site allows users to scour the web, based on user-defined parameters, and retrieve relevant machine-readable (semantic) data. I signed up for an account and tried out the service, but I could not find a way to make use of the massive amount of data returned in JSON format.
Ultimately I stumbled upon a really cool program, called Yahoo Pipes, that falls somewhere in the middle of an RSS reader and the semantic web. This web-based tool allows users to write executable scripts, which scours the web for specific content and returns real-time search results. I played with the tool for a long time, so long in fact that my wife is beginning to question whether I am actually do school-related work, and you can see the results of my efforts in the right-hand column of my blog and on the class wiki page titled Yahoo Pipes.
I believe that this may be a good way to incorporate student-produced information (e.g., blogs, wikis, diigo, etc.) into the BlackBoard LMS. Initially, one of the most frustrating things about this class was the distributed nature of content we have to read. I believe that using Yahoo Pipes would be a great way to corral all that information inside the structured LMS environment.
More to come....
Ultimately I stumbled upon a really cool program, called Yahoo Pipes, that falls somewhere in the middle of an RSS reader and the semantic web. This web-based tool allows users to write executable scripts, which scours the web for specific content and returns real-time search results. I played with the tool for a long time, so long in fact that my wife is beginning to question whether I am actually do school-related work, and you can see the results of my efforts in the right-hand column of my blog and on the class wiki page titled Yahoo Pipes.
I believe that this may be a good way to incorporate student-produced information (e.g., blogs, wikis, diigo, etc.) into the BlackBoard LMS. Initially, one of the most frustrating things about this class was the distributed nature of content we have to read. I believe that using Yahoo Pipes would be a great way to corral all that information inside the structured LMS environment.
More to come....
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