Thing 8

I used the Big Huge Labs website to create the image above. A mashup is a Web 2.0 tool that you can use in multiple ways. You can take images and create them into something fun that you can put on a blog or website. I think this is a great way to take a picture and make it into something interesting. When making this image of a jigsaw puzzle, I uploaded a picture from my desktop into the browser. It turned it into a jigsaw puzzle which is fun and interesting.

I think mashups could be used in the classroom as well as in your every day life. You can use these in the classroom to make learning fun. With the jigsaw puzzle you could use it in your classroom blog. I would put a picture of the class and turn it into the puzzle on the homepage. That is fun for parents to look at.

I think photo sharing online is important for history purposes. When you put an image online of an event, you are sharing with the rest of the world that memory in your life. A picture can say more than a typed paragraph about a moment in time. Photo sharing online is a good way to communicate with relatives and scholars. When looking through pictures that other people share on the Web, you can learn about things you would not have learned about otherwise.