Welcome to the Emerging Technologies Workshop - well, the Emerging Tech Wiki...

Originaly this site served to support a workshop sponsored by originally held at UMass Amherst in May of 2006 (see calendar info at ==> Nercomp Calendar listing for this workshop).

The wiki site for this workshop has been frozen in time as a PDF and can be downloaded from PDF of Emerging Technology Wiki site
(Short URL : http://nercompSIG.notlong.com)

This site is now morphing to become an aggregation of emerging technology tools, references, and assessment references, along with whatever musings seem relevant at the time they were written.

Emerging Technologies References

Emerging Technologies - an Introduction

Emerging technologies are just that, things coming from the research labs, industry, the museum community,cinema and film studies, and your 10 year old's bedroom that have the potential to radically change, or mildly influence who we approach learning and the creative arts. If you're at the consuming end of the value chain you're likely concerned about picking them (what's useful for your circumstances), assessing them (how do you know they are useful?), figuring out how to best use them (locally adapting them to your setting), and finding them in the first place (where do you look?).

One good place to start is the NMC Horizon Project which annually tries to look at what technologies are likely to have a substantive impact on teaching, learning and the creative arts across three time horizons: within the next 12 months, in the next 1-3 years and in the next 3-5 years (aka "beyond").

• Horizon Report
• A prentationa about the NMC Horizon report Report

A brief list of the topics covered in the 2006 Horizon Report along with some illustrative examples follow:

• Social Computing
• Personal Broadcasting
  • Digital storytelling(BNA)
  • Videoblogging (Rocketboom) (BNA)
  • Web video (YouTube, Google Video, VideoSift) (BNA)
• The Phones in Their Pockets (BNA)
  • One future
  • One present (one-third)
  • Buddybuzz
  • Helio connects Phones to MySpace
• Gaming (BNA)
  • MMOGs (Second Life, World of Warcraft, Croquet, America's Army)
  • a 2005 seminar
• Augmented Reality ARlinks (BNA)
• Context-Aware Environments and Devices

What follow is an outline of emerging technologies with links to examine their use. As time goes by this will will flesh out and transform.

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.

Personal Digital Conversations

• Blogging (dialogues)
  • Social versus personal media: LastFM and Pandora
  • Examples of emerging forms
    • Journals going further (Riverbend)
    • Aggregation (Regional)
    • Re-presenting content 17th-century diary, the return of the Count
    • Class blog
    • Students abroad
    • Library-based blogs
    • Public intellectuals, right and left (are we different now?)
    • Class and research blog
    • Search - Technorati,, Google Blogsearch, Gnosh
• Podcasting (monologues)
• Flickr
• Protecting your IP - Creative Commons
• Tagging - delicious/Connotea
• 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

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.