Emerging Technologies Update

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Edit it quite easily. This is the hyperlinked outline for a short presentation on emerging technology, emphasizing recent developments.

I. Memes

II. Web 2.0

Size: blogosphere, Wikipedia, podcasting, Flickr, social networking

Exemplum of Twitter

• Mashups: with Google Maps, with Google Earth, another Earth, with Facebook, with Second Life, for elections, with Yahoo Pipes, as verb phrases, social networks visualized
• Search: Tweetscan (example)
• Competition: Jaiku, Facebook Status; but interoperability
• Educational uses: backchannel and peer connection (McBride), project update, classmultitool and another case; academic study
• Related uses: news publication, fast communication, content stream, field notes, Twittering out of jail

Web 2.0-CMS connections grow: Scholar.com, Facebook meets Blackboard
New educational uses keep coming: teaching with Netvibes, crowdsourcing archives, peer review by blog, YouTube for class content, teaching with, about, and critiquing YouTube, tag clouds for faculty collaboration discovery, DIY educational social networks, educational uses of Facebook, campus history
Interoperability may grow

more Web 2.0

III. Web 3.0 ?

1. 3d
2. Semantic Web: could be the social graph, or making your content programmable (Reuters)

IV. Web 1.0

V. Gaming

• Social-political teaching games: Ayiti, Powerup, Harpooned
• Library games (Wales)
• Web navigation game: PMOG

campus warfare

• Hybrid games: Wadlandis
• Human computing games: Google Image Labeler
• Other virtual worlds: teaching with Croquet

VI. Ubicomp

• NITLE WTG materials
• Mobile content: poetry
• American users might start going beyond voice: iPhone users, data services
• Augmented reality projects: SL platform

VII. Emergence and higher education

• Campus support: Colgate's faculty innovation process
• Collaboration: Horizon Report
  * futures

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