Notes from the morning introductions

How do you keep up with emerging technologies?

• children (teenagers)
• students
• conferences
• listservs
• requests from users
• journals (The Economist, Business Week)
  • example: The Economist on Web 2.0

Glimpses from the survey

• Common technologies
  • usage (email, course management systems)
  • awareness (RSS, blogs)
• Unevenness: wireless access, wikis
• Interest (tagging)
• New stuff of interest
  • Flickr (community, copyright)
  • del.icio.us
  • podcasting
  • digital storytelling
  • videoblogging
  • MMOGs (for example, Second Life)
  • new mapping tools (Google Maps)
• Not of interest
  • geolocation
  • mobility: networks and devices
  • social software meets mobility (Dodgeball)

Added to our survey in discussion

• • eportfolios
  • mobile phone uses - text messaging
  • information management, aggregation, PIMs
  • realtime video
  • virtualization (and simulation?)
  • VOIP
  • video over IP

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