Wednesday 30 May 2007
Mashups
Read an interesting article found in Cathy Chen's blog titled Mashups: The next major new software development model? As I replied to Cathy, I think it was interesting that the author stated that rather than the business organisations being at the leading edge of developing Web2.0 that 'the much larger community of the Web as a major source of innovation and leading edge behavior that subsequently moves across' This has repurcussions for us as educators as well- Are our students at the leading edge and we, the teachers, are just catching up?? Perhaps not so much for the primary students that I teach, but this certainly might be the case for those teaching middle and upper secondary students. Also interestingly there seems to be two different types of mashups- those that are being developed by the general community that's on-line (wikis etc) and also now a growing body of tools from commercial software vendors that also try to bring the apparent advantages of mashups to the business world, both on the Web and in our intranets. Will the 2 come together or will the general community prefer to go their merry ways without the cost of the extra tools created by vendors?
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The importance of professional development is highlighted by this article don't you think Andrew? If we weren't undergoing this learning through our Master's and extending ourselves, would we be exposed to the new developments we have experienced? In my case - I don't think so. For me, it's necessary to be engaged with like-minded people who are adventurous enough to try these new methods of teaching and learning and then come up with ways of incorporating them into their work. Many of my colleagues are disinterested, but I have been working hard at trying to excite them with the possibilities ... with some success!
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