This area is meant to contain stories, examples, and items that could be classified as general food for thought. The initial list was culled from a variety of sources, including the NY Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, and Wired. Please add more, or add comments on how or why you think they are important
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Each Advisory Board member was asked to mark the three (3) items/articles in this section that they thought were most useful or interesting for the purposes of the Horizon Report by adding his or her their initials below the entry.
Items Highlighted by Advisory Board Members – Rank Ordered by Votes
It's a Whole New Web
And this time around it will be built by you.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952401.htm
Votes: NN AL SRB RMS MBB KT
Gaming Technologies Alter Classroom, Textbook Models
Educators and video-game developers gathered last week in Madison, Wis. to explore how learning technologies can alter traditional classroom and textbook education models, which speakers agreed early e-learning projects failed to achieve.
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1954
Votes: NN JPJ SRB PS RSS
20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have
During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. Whether you are involved in higher ed, secondary ed, elementary ed, or special ed, all of us find it difficult to catch up, keep up, and put up with fast-moving computer-based technology.
http://thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A5387.cfm
Votes: JPJ PS KT RSS
The Fading Memory of the State
The National Archives struggle to save endangered electronic records. By David Talbot
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/feature
Votes: LJ RMS PS
New Tools: Blogs, Podcasts and Virtual Classrooms
The "Room 208" podcast may just have the youngest production staff in the history of broadcasting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/technology/techspecial3/03ethan.html?
Votes: NN SRB RSS
Augmented Reality, Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall
Georgia Tech University researchers are working to meld virtual and physical reality together, which will enhance the ways people interact with and perceive the world around them. By Michelle Delio.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/wo/wo_delio021505.asp?trk=nl
Votes: JPJ MBB
Can Machines Read Body Language?
Human communications depends heavily on nonverbal cues; that's often the best way to tell when someone is annoyed, or tired, or pleased. In contrast, it's often impossible to know from looking at it whether a robot is processing data, awaiting instruction, or in need of repair. Now, researchers from Switzerland and South Africa have designed a visual interface that would give autonomous machines the equivalent of body language.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_061804.asp?trk=nl
Votes: LJ
Controlling Graphics with Pressure
Researchers from the University of Toronto are proposing to add a new dimension to the clickable graphics that appear on computer screens: pressure.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_062104.asp?trk=nl
Votes: LJ
Distributed Learning Meets Intellectual Property Policy: Who Owns What?
The rise of eLearning and technology in higher education-including distance education, digital repositories, and electronic courseware products-has changed the way faculty and institutions regard ownership and control of these materials.
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=11624
Votes: KT
Editing Films for Very Different Trailers
With some keen-eyed editing, you can create a trailer for a film that's very different from what the movie is usually seen to be about. For example, a brilliant chap grabbed and mixed slices from a classic horror film, The Shining, and the result is... a romantic, family-oriented, feel-good comedy. This was done for a contest, as discovered on Making Light, and you can enjoy entries by other geniuses: Titanic as horror film, West Side Story as zombie attack.
http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2005/10/editing_films_f.html
Votes: AL
Finding More Juice for Power-Thirsty Devices
It's the dark underside of mobile devices: batteries. By Greg Sandoval
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/ap/ap_101705.1.asp?trk=nl
Votes: RMS
Tiny Sensors Run Forever (Almost)
Several technologies for transmitting information wirelessly over unlicensed radio spectrum are targeting consumers, but supporters of the ZigBee specification say the technology is better than rivals such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and Wi-Fi in certain instances thanks to ...
Joanna Glasner
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68700,00.html
Votes: MBB
The People Own Ideas!
Do we want music, software, and books to be free--or not? By Lawrence Lessig
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/feature_people.asp?trk=nl
Votes: AL
Unranked Items
AI Seduces Stanford Students
Researchers at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab strapped 69 student volunteers into an immersive, 3-D virtual-reality rig, where test subjects found themselves sitting across the table from a "digital agent" – a computer-generated man or woman.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67659,00.html
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The Dream of a Lifetime
Doug Engelbart and augmenting human intellect. By Bill Joy
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/issue/review_dream.asp?trk=nl
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Florida Concept Mapping Idea Given To Schools Around the World
A simple 'clustering' concept for teaching concepts has some enthusiastic supporters. By Bill Kaczor
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/ap/ap_071105.asp?trk=nl
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Gizmos do not a Hemingway or a Copernicus Make
Alex Lam-Niemeyer could care less that Google can churn up millions of Web pages when he's researching homework assignments. Typically, he researches his reports by scouring library stacks, just as students have done for generations.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/TopPhoto/2005/09/08/1207954-ap.html
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L.A. Times's Experimental Journalism
Chris Anderson at The Long Tail has an interesting entry on why the L.A. Times's bloggish experiment with participatory journalism went so wrong. By Jason Pontin
http://pontin.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/la_timess_exper.html?trk=nl
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The Linux Longhorn Challenge
Open Source Developers race to get applications and migrations tools in top form before the launch of Microsoft's next operating system. By Eric Hellweg
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_051305hellweg.asp?trk=nl
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Microsoft Steps Up Pressure To Adopt Spam-Fighting System
MS plans to require IDs from more emailers. By Anick Jesdanun
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/ap/ap_062305.asp?trk=nl
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Mobile Army Requires Solar Soldiers
The U.S. Army is turning to new solar-powered materials and sensors to solve the problem of too-little energy for its high-tech soldiers. By John Gartner
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_051605gartner.asp?trk=nl
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New For Back-To-School: Clickers
Students in Ann Auleb's biology of human sexuality class at San Francisco State University are often shy about joining classroom debates on gay marriage, abortion, circumcision and other emotion-stirring topics.
http://news.com.com/New+for+back-to-school+clickers/2100-1041_3-5819171.html
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NSA Could Track Internet Users
The National Security Agency has obtained a patent on a way of finding an Internet user's geographic location.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050923-042616-1668r
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Rita Pushes Blogs, Podcasts and Rich Maps Onstage
Once again, 'alternative' media show their strengths where timeliness and versatility are crucial. By Anick Jesdanun
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/ap/ap_092705.asp?trk=nl
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A Room Without Books
The University of Texas at Austin did a little housecleaning this summer. In preparation for the school year, UT retooled its undergraduate library into a "learning commons." Accoutrements include a coffee shop, computers, "software suites" where students can gather for group projects, 24-hour technical help and a center for computer repair. But to make space for all of this, something had to go. So UT removed most of the library's 90,000 books, transferring them to other collections.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/3283466
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Technology for the Globe
TR's Emerging Technology Conference ended yesterday as it started: with a look at how technology can be used create a more equitable world. By Wade Roush
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/wo/wo_093005roush.asp?trk=nl
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Technology Responds to Hurricane Katrina
How high-tech companies and Web surfers are using technology to help people find victims of Hurricane Katrina and to assist public safety officials and rescue workers in communicating. By Eric Hellweg
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/wo/wo_0901hellweg.asp?trk=nl
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Sending out an SOS: HPCC Rescue Coming
The annual SOS Forum is designed to encourage multinational collaboration on investigations into new avenues of high-performance cluster computing (HPCC). The most recent SOS Forum focused on how supercomputers will nurture future scientific breakthroughs, with particular emphasis on the ...
Christopher Lazou
http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=464623&xsl=story.xsl
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Sun Microsystems Unveils Grid Computing Initiative
Sun's pay-per-computing grid initiative will help small business harness large networks much easier. That, at least, is what Sun hopes to sell.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/ap/ap_2020205.asp?trk=nl
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The Creators Own Ideas
Contrary to what Lawrence Lessig says, a truly free society allows for proprietary systems. By Richard Epstein
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/feature_creators.asp?trk=nl
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UT Game Group Unveils AI Project
My friends at the Digital Media Collaboratory at the University of Texas at Austin have been working on a very cool artificial intelligence. By Brad King
http://king.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/ut_game_group_u.html?trk=nl
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Will IPods Change TV the Way It Changed Music?
Or will a 2.5-inch screen make "Desperate Housewives" and "Night Stalker" seem much less compelling? By David Bauder
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/ap/ap_2101305.asp?trk=nl
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Wireless Wiretapping
The U.S. government wants the ability to listen in on wireless conversations. Critics claim the move could actually make Internet-based communications more vulnerable to attacks. By Trey Popp
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/wo/wo_082205popp.asp?trk=nl
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New Items Since 10/25/2005 – Unranked
Proof of Learning: Assessment in Serious Games
Games and game technology are poised to transform the way we educate and train students at all levels.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051019/chen_01.shtml