To view my mashup click HERE or the link at the top of this page.
I don't know what I would do without Google Maps/Earth today. Being able to map out a travel course with this or a gps, and then being able to go to the street level and actually see what specific points during the travel will look like is amazing. Ok enough praise for Google, lets get on with my experience.
The creation of a Google Map was pretty strait forward. I know there are a lot of bells and whistles that I could have added, like adding place names, pictures, and lines/shapes, but I decided to keep it simple and uncluttered. I like the idea of the mashup, especially when it comes to advertising a location or an event. Which is just what I did.
At first I really was not sure what to add to this mashup, other than the map. The first thing that came to mind was to add some kind of social media element. This seemed like an obvious choice considering its prevalence in society today. Morrisville has both Facebook and Twitter accounts, with Twitter being the better of the two options just by its very nature and ease of being embedded into a website.
Next the mashup needed a little bit of a media presence. Scrolling images or video are great eye catching ways to get a users attention. So in order to advertise our campus further I turned again to the Public Relations and Marketing team's resources. For images I had the option of either Flickr or Instagram. Between the two I went with Flickr as it had the more professional set of images available. I then added a campus tour video that really highlights what Morrisville has to offer, despite a few needed updates.
Overall the experience of mashup creation was a good one and pretty easy. With Weebly I was able to add a new page to the site, which I chose a basic html page. Adding each mashup object was easy with the Embed Code option box. Just a drag and a drop into where I wanted the object then cut and paste the embedding code from Google, Flickr, Vimeo, etc was all it took. The same process worked for the text as well.
I don't know what I would do without Google Maps/Earth today. Being able to map out a travel course with this or a gps, and then being able to go to the street level and actually see what specific points during the travel will look like is amazing. Ok enough praise for Google, lets get on with my experience.
The creation of a Google Map was pretty strait forward. I know there are a lot of bells and whistles that I could have added, like adding place names, pictures, and lines/shapes, but I decided to keep it simple and uncluttered. I like the idea of the mashup, especially when it comes to advertising a location or an event. Which is just what I did.
At first I really was not sure what to add to this mashup, other than the map. The first thing that came to mind was to add some kind of social media element. This seemed like an obvious choice considering its prevalence in society today. Morrisville has both Facebook and Twitter accounts, with Twitter being the better of the two options just by its very nature and ease of being embedded into a website.
Next the mashup needed a little bit of a media presence. Scrolling images or video are great eye catching ways to get a users attention. So in order to advertise our campus further I turned again to the Public Relations and Marketing team's resources. For images I had the option of either Flickr or Instagram. Between the two I went with Flickr as it had the more professional set of images available. I then added a campus tour video that really highlights what Morrisville has to offer, despite a few needed updates.
Overall the experience of mashup creation was a good one and pretty easy. With Weebly I was able to add a new page to the site, which I chose a basic html page. Adding each mashup object was easy with the Embed Code option box. Just a drag and a drop into where I wanted the object then cut and paste the embedding code from Google, Flickr, Vimeo, etc was all it took. The same process worked for the text as well.