I'm excited to be teaching a pre-conference seminar at the Educause 2009 Annual Conference. My proposal for running a half-day seminar Creating and Enabling Web Mashups was accepted. The seminar will take place at Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:30AM. I'm looking forward to spending some time in Denver.
Here's a short abstract for the session:
There are thousands of web mashups that recombine everything from Google Maps and Flickr with useful data drawn from multiple website. Mashups are educational, fun, and even transformative. In this tutorial, you will begin to build mashups that address problems of interest to you.  You will learn how to combine APIs and data into mashups.  You will also learn how to let others recombine content from your website.
Here's a longer abstract:
The Web contains thousands of mashups that recombine everything from Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon.com, the New York Times with useful information about travel, finance, real estate, and more. By fusing elements from multiple web sites, mashups are often informative, fun, and even transformative — representing the way the Web as a whole is heading.
In this hands-on tutorial, you will learn how to build basic mashups and how to develop mashups to address problems of interest to you.  You will learn how to exploit such web elements as URLs, tags, and RSS feeds in your mashups; and how to combine APIs and data into mashups.  You will also learn how to enable users to recombine content from your website. Although the most sophisticated mashups demand a wide range of technical knowledge, anyone with a solid knowledge of HTML will be able to learn practical skills from this tutorial.
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