Welcome to the Emerging Technologies Workshop

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Emerging Technologies - AGENDA -

PreSession Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=305582087059

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Coffee

1) 9:00am - 9:40am - Introduction: what we are talking about.. what not?

• Ground rules
• What are we doing today
• Who we are....
• Survey discussion (pre-conference survey of participants)
• Group introductions
  • Who
  • What
  • Get out of this
  • One surprising thing about you
    (like your blogs)

2) 9:40am - 11:20am - Introduction to Emerging Technologies... (overview)PDL

• There are lots out there...
  • Picking them
  • Assessing them
  • What do you do with them?
  • Where do you look?
  • Horizon Report (PDL)
    1. Social Computing (PDL)
    2. Personal Broadcasting (CL)
       • Digital storytelling(BNA)
       • Videoblogging (Rocketboom) (BNA)
       • Web video (YouTube, Google Video, VideoSift) (BNA)
    3. The Phones in Their Pockets (BNA)
    4. Gaming (BNA)
       • MMOGs (Second Life, World of Warcraft, America's Army)
    5. Augmented Reality ARlinks (BNA)
    6. Context-Aware Environments and Devices
• The Institutional framework

• • Sustaining them & scaling up (CL)(PDL)

Introduction session discussion notes

10:30am - 10:45pm <Break> 15 min

3) 11:25am - 11:50am - Collaborative Writing

• Writely, wikis
  • Pedagogical examples
    1. Romantic Audiences Project
    2. Cambridge/MIT Education Exchange
• MIT LAI - Product Lifecycle - restricted site but will be demonstrated at the workshop.

Collaborative writing discussion notes

11:50am - 12:50pm <LUNCH> (PDL

4) 12:50pm - 3:00pm - Personal Digital Conversations (BA?)

• Blogging (dialogues) (BA) (PDL)
  • Social versus personal media: LastFM and Pandora
  • Examples of emerging forms
    • Journals going further (Riverbend)
    • Aggregation (Regional)
    • Re-presenting content
    • Class blog
    • Students abroad
    • Library-based blogs
    • Public intellectuals, right and left
    • Class and research blog
    • Search - Technorati,, Google Blogsearch, Gnosh
• Podcasting (monologues) (CL)
• Flickr (CL)
• Protecting your IP - Creative Commons
• Tagging - delicious/Connotea (CL)
• Distributing Content
  • RSS
  • Bloglines
• Pedagogical examples
  • Podcasting chemistry @ Bryn Mawr
  • A Donne A Day and Students do Donne
  • Napoleon 101
  • Flickr anatomical images
  • Blogging Antartica
  • Harvard Extension Course in Computer Science 'Bits'- available from iTunes Podcasts

Personal digital conversations session discussion notes

6) 3:00pm - 3:10pm - Conclusions

• What do you do?
• Who does it?
• Who is involved
• Planning for sustained innovation?
• How to foster innovation given your context?
• Developing the language for innovation.

Conclusion notes

Total Time: 300 min. – 5 hrs