NMC Symposium on Mashups 2008
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The University Libraries and the Innovative Technology Center join to invite you to The NMC Symposium on Mashups. Sessions will take place in Second Life and broadcast in the Practice Presentation Room in The Commons.
Note: We will register an avatar that group participants can ask questions through. You do NOT need to register your avatar separately.
Where: Practice Presentation Room, Commons South, 2nd floor Hodges Library
When: April 2 and 3, sessions are scheduled periodically from 12 noon – 8:15pm
Mashups are web applications that combine data from more than one source via a single, unified tool. Data mashups are powerful tools for navigating and visualizing datasets, and for understanding connections between different dimensions such as time, distance, and locations.
Wednesday, April 2
12:00 noon - 12:45 pm
Mashing It Up at a Big University
Cole Camplese, Pennsylvania State University
1:15 - 2:00 pm
Keynote Presentation
Wayne Hodgins, Learnativity
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2:30 - 3:15 pm
Learning from the Mashup: Are We Blending Our Future
or Throwing Our Future in the Blender?
Jared Bendis, Case Western Reserve University
5:00 - 5:45 pm
Mashup Contest at Upenn: Copyright and Free Culture
Anu Vedantham and Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania
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6:15 - 7:00 pm
The Salamander Project (Second Life Presentation)
Jonathan Richter, University of Oregon
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7:30 - 8:15 pm
Visual Weather Mashup (Second Life Presentation)
Eric Hackathorn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Thursday, April 3
12:00 noon - 12:45 pm
Confessions of a Mashup Un-Artist
Brian Lamb, University of British Columbia
1:15 - 2:00 pm
Keynote Presentation: Educational Uses of Mashups
Susan Smith Nash, Victoria Resources
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2:30 am - 3:15 pm
Information Visualization Using Mashups and Web 2.0 Tools
Jill Tinsely, University of Arizona
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5:00 - 5:45 pm
Welcome to the People's Republic of Non-Programmistan
Tom Woodward and Jim Groom, University of Richmond
6:15 - 7:00 pm
Virtual Showcase in Second Life
Drop in and see materials from sessions on NMC Campus
7:30 - 8:15 pm
Artistic Mashups in Second Life
Vlad Bjornson
Questions about this page?
Teresa Walker
tbraden@utk.edu
Reference, Hodges Library
865-974-8694
Quick Links:
NMC Page
White Paper on Mashups
Horizon Report - Chapter on Mashups