What would you list among the established technologies that colleges and universities should all be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?

• Ubiquitous networks – not just wireless, but also high-speed networking, and especially highspeed networking to rural areas, via powerlines. Since the current broadband system isn't serving everyone, community networks are emerging. Should we encourage people to think of the Internet as a utility that is necessary for education, commerce, and a productive life? (Diana Oblinger) Might push this further ahead in time. New Pew study finds broadband adoption nearing a plateau, after barely 1/2 of Americans signed on (Bryan Alexander)

• Grid computing and e-Science – the ability to easily move and share large data sets, and to put authentic data int hehands of students could be transformational (Diana Oblinger)
• RSS – Has done much to foster individual expression – but we are only beginning to tap it for learning (Diana Oblinger)
  • • Also, syndication of more then text content (images, audio, video) and tech to mix feeds from multiple sources into something new (Alan Levine)
• video production and sharing - this has become much easier, and is already exfoliating into numerous delivery mechanisms (DVD, vlogging, OurMedia) (Bryan Alexander)
• audio production and sharing - see video preceding. Think of connections with other technologies, such as syndication (podcasting) and mobile devices (Bryan Alexander)
• Torrent technology putting it to educational use? (Alan Levine) See also IP issues, below (Bryan Alexander)
• net documents shared writing environments, documents that live on the network, not the desktop, wikis come to prime time (Alan Levine)
• web standard content creation tools It's time to stop making content not up to modern web standards that can be used on multiple devices, address accessibility (Alan Levine) Does this include microcontent? (Bryan Alexander)
• Narrowcasting e.g screencasting audio recording captured over screen action; to do more than just explain how to use software, but to deliver advanced concepts (Alan Levine) Along with podcasting and vodcasting, and now appcasting and no doubt other types of 'object' casting to come. (Nick Noakes) Alan, if you feel the title and text I've inserted are inappropriate, please delete
• folksonomic tools del.icio.us and Flickr - among others - are more than mature enough for use in academic environments. The possibilities for new ways of sharing, aggregating, and organizing information are endless. (Ruben Puentedura)
• Wikis like this (excellent) one for the Horizon Project (Jean Paul)
• Multimedia Aggregators some examples are FireANT, DTV, iPodder, iPodderX (etc), Attensa (links into Firefox and IE and resides within Outlook) (Nick Noakes)
• VOIP + API's - Internet phone + add-ins that could really impact on both informal and formal, peer-to-peer (P2P) learning. Skype, Gizmo, iChat, etc with tools that allow you to record audio and video and also to stream content to each other while connected via the VOIP tool. See ShowMacster for iChat as an example of this. Skype recently released their API so expect something similar to ShowMacster to be out and widely used before next Jan. (Nick Noakes)

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