Remember the first time you ever saw a "customimzed" magazine, one with someone's personal picture on the cover? It seemed so cool and almost convincing. For that one second, you thought your friend was really on a magazine. (I guess you have to be of a certain age to remember this.) Now anyone can make a magazine cover. I chose to use our pictures from a vacation last week to Italy to create my own retirement magazine.
Other than just for fun, I'm not sure why I would use this mashup rather than Publisher, etc, but perhaps that's because I have creation programs on all of my computers, school and home.
I'm going to explore the other mashups to see how I might use them. I'm thinking of a project in which I make playing cards--some with book covers, some with characters from the books. Students would have to make sets matching the books and the characters. Or cards with books and actors. Which actor would best be suited to playing the main role?
I've seen a number of people using Flickr for writing prompts, an idea I enjoy. One of my personal favorite mashups is the use of Google/Yahoo maps in other applications, such as a library's contact page on the Internet.
Off to learn more Web 2.0
