Feb 28 E2T2 class reflection

What is my plan to share technology with others in my district?

What will the classroom and school look like in 5 years.

99 designs


Cutting Edge: what the future holds

Mike Mazyck presentation


Web 3.0: the semantic web, the thinking web: our computers wil organize our data and be able to suggest where to have lunch

Aurora: concept browser from Mozilla

rdf will replace html, data will be read by machine and turned into different kind of document

Google suggest: contextualize the web based on the people that use it.

2009 Horizon REport: emerging tech impacting teaching and learning

Key trends:

1. Increasing globalization: connect with people all over the world, collaborative workspaces, skype,

2. Collective intelligence: the crowd, active learning, learners control environment

3. Games as learning tools, increased social interaction

4. Visualization tools: visual literact helps encode and decode and establish authenticity of data from net

5. Mobiles: innovation and competition



Six technologies to watch:

1. Mobile phones is top



3rd party mobile applications:

TinEyeMobile: photo of book, cd, it can tell you where to buy

Spacetime and Quickgraph converts Iphone into graphing calculator

IStanford: campus life, maps, courses, register for courses

Shazam: waveform of any recording, tells you what the music is, where to buy it

Short messaging service response system: cell phone as clicker

(joomla: open source site)



2. Cloud computing

Open apps:

Google health

Gmail

Mint: retrieves bank statements, tells you where you're spending your money

Utility computing:

Amazon web services: installs patches, prevents viruses, your hard drive is in the cloud

Google app engine: developing your own open source apps

Desktop in the cloud: Microsoft LiveMesh

Yahoo ZImbra desktop: email, calendar, doc editor, tasklist

I Cloud: like google docs, social networking, online docs
Ghost: uses Amazon's web service, virtual desktop, can access from IPhone

Cloud storage: Box, Dropbox, Syncplicity, SMEStorage

Resources:

EBook: THe Tower and the Cloud

20 More online desktops

Web 2.0 and Cloud computing: blog post by Tim O'reilly



3. Geoeverything

Record precise location and save its location on your media

Radar

Buzzd: mobile device social networking

Geotagging: check the travels of Marco Polo, Community Walk: annotate maps
Geocding with google spreadsheets

Resources:
7 things you should know about geolocation (educause)
geotagging photos to share field trips with the world
GoogleLitTrips


4. The personal web

Zotero: bibliograph your web browser

The Open Publishing Lab: create online books

Omeka: open source web publishing

Smarthistory: online art history



5. Semantic aware apps
Hakia: search engine uses semantic algorythms
calais: integrates semantic into blogs, moodle
worldmapper: changes map based on info represented

Article: the semantic webin education


6. Smart Objects

Any object that includes a unique identifier and can provide info about it and respond
SmartCards, can tag people-carried or worn by people




Carl Anderson: 3d web, virtual worlds

Second Life


Chek out: our story, photostory, jamstudio, zoho polls