This document discusses mashing up personal learning environments using RSS feeds and "glue logic". It proposes using blogs organized by topic or tag as "uncourses" with self-disaggregating category and tag based feeds. It also presents several tools for connecting and displaying RSS feeds, including Stringle, which is described as a "string'n'glue learning environment", and Yahoo Pipes for search, filtering, maps, scraping and visualization.

1. Mashing Up the PLE RSS Edition Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

3. http://flickr.com/photos/banlon1964/329984504

4. http://flickr.com/photos/chromewaves/2171216654/

6. http://flickr.com/photos/myguerrilla/331487507/

7. http://flickr.com/photos/mmmazzoni/117571590

8. http://tinyurl.com/62v83f

9. The user context

12. Portable content for personal learning environments?

15. So let's mash it up... ...mash it up

17. http://flickr.com/photos/75468125@N00/1395277674/

18. If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...

19. http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/96085777/ “ Simple logic circuits used to connect together more complex circuits which are not perfectly compatible.”

20. http://flickr.com/photos/eob/55434639

22. http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com

23. Uncourse blog emergent link structure

25. http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/ category/ game-design/ feed tag/ animation/ feed

27. Search glue: http://live.com just add &format=rss

28. Where's the feed?

29. Where's the feed?

30. Glue Logic http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/ xmltools/ dwCommentFeedsOPML.php aka http://tinyurl.com/4vq4nt

31. Presentation glue: http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/opmldashboard/

32. http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle

33. Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

34. Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

35. Pipework

36. - search and filtering - maps - page scraping and APIs - visualisation

37. http://pipes.yahoo.com

38. http://ouseful.info