The Call for Proposals for the Symposium on Mashups is now closed.

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Symposium Format and Topics

The sympsoium will be conducted both online in the virtual world of Second Life, as well as in the Adobe Connect web environment, with support from LearningTimes. Sessions conducted in Second Life will be streamed into Adobe Connect during the session time.

Sessions, which will be conducted live, can incorporate a variety of visuals and rich media, and are generally about 45 minutes in length, with about one-third to one-half that time devoted to dialog with participants using the chat and audio tools of the environment.

Proposals are encouraged on the topic in any of the following areas, but this list is not exhaustive and selections are not limited to these categories:

• Tools and methods for creating educational mashups
• Projects which demonstrate creative use of data mashups
• New approaches to data visualizations based on mashups
• Strategies for encouraging development of mashups
• Applications of data mashups

This event is the eleventh in the ongoing series of specially focused online gatherings that explore new ideas and issues related to technology and learning. The NMC Series of Virtual Symposia is itself an exploration of emerging forms of collaboration and tools.