Mashing Up the PLE RSS Edition Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

PLE – the very idea

PLE – the very idea Joining in

PLE – the very idea Joining in Mashup activism

P ersonal L earning E nvironment

Beware the category mistake

Gilbert Ryle

figure:ground

medium:context

http://flickr.com/photos/banlon1964/329984504

http://flickr.com/photos/chromewaves/2171216654/

http://tinyurl.com/62v83f

The user context

Figure:ground Personal Portable Social Lesson level Institutional Monolithic Private Course level

Personal

Portable

Social

Lesson level

Institutional

Monolithic

Private

Course level

Portable content for personal learning environments?

Content Structure Context Pacing

Content

Structure

Context

Pacing

So let's mash it up... ...mash it up

http://flickr.com/photos/75468125@N00/1395277674/

If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...

http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/96085777/ “ Simple logic circuits used to connect together more complex circuits which are not perfectly compatible.”

http://flickr.com/photos/eob/55434639

Blogged uncourses Category based blog “ Syllabus” outlined as a set of topics to be covered Blog posts broadly themed by week, but free to wander… Category and tag based feeds mean the “uncourse” is “self-disaggregating”

Category based blog

“ Syllabus” outlined as a set of topics to be covered

Blog posts broadly themed by week, but free to wander…

Category and tag based feeds mean the “uncourse” is “self-disaggregating”

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com

Uncourse blog emergent link structure

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/ category/ game-design/ feed tag/ animation/ feed

Search glue: http://live.com just add &format=rss

Where's the feed?

Where's the feed?

Glue Logic http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/ xmltools/ dwCommentFeedsOPML.php aka http://tinyurl.com/4vq4nt

Presentation glue: http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/opmldashboard/

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Pipework

- search and filtering - maps - page scraping and APIs - visualisation

http://pipes.yahoo.com

http://ouseful.info