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)
    ****Buddybuzz
  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