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Mashups and Teaching

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 19 January, 2010. Filed under Teaching, Technology. Tagged , , . No comments.
I had a productive Christmas making geo-mashups for teaching. Mashups are a method of developing web applications that link different web platforms through their programming interfaces (APIs). My first project has been to link Google Maps to my own database of articles and news stories about China so that students can locate them geographically. The [...]

Multimedia Experement Conclusions

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 19 October, 2008. Filed under Education, Technology. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
I have concluded a couple of weeks of experimenting with multimedia to support my teaching and have come to some conclusions. The most important is that, at least for my subject material, there are very limited learning benefits from developing teaching support resources beyond well structured web resources and podcasts — at least in terms [...]