Nursing Education 2.0: are Mashups Useful for Nursing Education?(Emerging Technologies Center) (Essay‪)‬

VERY TIME I RECEIVE a new issue of Educause Review, I get excited, as I know I am going to learn about a new tool to facilitate learning. For example, the July/August includes an article by Brian Lamb, "Dr. Mashup; or, why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix." I had heard the term mashup bantered about in Web 2.0 circles, but I had no experiences with mashups. HERE IS WHAT I LEARNED. Let me introduce the mashup concept by imagining an example for Nursing 101. Suppose you want to introduce your new students to Florence Nightingale. You could have your students read an article or a book about her; you could have them visit the Florence Nightingale Museum online (www.florencenightingale.co.uk/index.php); or you could have them interact with a mashup. One mashup might use Google Maps to trace Nightingale's work in the Crimean War. Another might show a picture gallery of Nightingale with her work displayed on a map of London while music from the Victorian period plays in the background.