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Emerging Technologies


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  • The Croquet Project
    Croquet is a combination of open source computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users. Such collaboration is carried out within the context of a large-scale distributed information system. The software and architecture define a framework for delivering a scalable, persistent, and extensible interface to network delivered resources.
  • Rice University, Connexions Project
    Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Its Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone-from children to college students to professionals-organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.
  • University of British Columbia, Ancient Spaces Project
    The Ancient Spaces Project is based at the University of British Columbia in Canada. It aims to create a platform for 3-D modeling of the ancient world, together with a student-built resource for studying ancient society and architecture.

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  • EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee, Evolving Technologies Reports
    The Evolving Technologies Committee is charged with identifying emerging technologies and evaluating their impact on higher education for the EDUCAUSE community. Each year members of the committee identify and research such technologies and develop white papers. The information gathered is presented at a meeting of the committee during the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
  • Futurelab
    Originally part of the United Kingdom's National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA), Futurelab is a non-profit research organization dedicated to teaching and learning innovation through technology. Its site offers a showcase of current and past Futurelab projects; research on teaching, learning, and technology innovation; and Viewpoint, Futurelab's page of recurring articles on the future of learning and technology.
  • JISC e-Learning Focus
    The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) supports research, development, and use of technology in the United Kingdom's postsecondary education sector. The e-Learning Focus site highlights JISC's e-learning program and its focus areas in e-learning pedagogy, innovation, infrastructure (frameworks and tools), and broad scale implementation (distributed e-learning). Focus area pages offer resources on the use of emerging technologies to advance teaching and learning, including analyses, case studies, practice guides, and tools.
  • The Horizon Community
    ELI's Horizon Community provides an online forum for discussion and collaboration among faculty, technology professionals, and others interested in the emergence of new technologies and related learning practices.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology Review.com
    The companion Web site to MIT's Technology Review magazine, Technology Review.com provides access to articles and forums on emerging technologies across a range of fields, including biotechnology and health care, business, computing, telecommunications, and nanotechnology.
  • New Media Consortium, Emerging Technology Initiative/Horizon Report Web Site
    The NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative focuses on expanding the boundaries of teaching, learning, and creative expression by creatively applying new tools in new contexts. The Horizon Project, the centerpiece of this initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies and produces the annual Horizon Report, which in 2005 was developed in partnership with NLII.

Use Tools

  • del.icio.us
    del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. It allows users to easily add Web pages to their personal collections of links, categorize those links with keywords, access them from any Web browser, and share them among browsers, computers, and other users. What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let users see the links that others have collected as well as who else has bookmarked a specific site. Users can also subscribe to the links of people whose lists they find interesting.
  • Flickr
    Flickr is photo blogging site that uses collaborative tagging to organize photos in terms of key word structures or "folksonomies" that have community meaning. This allows for easier search and retrieval, both by the photographer and the people with whom he or she wants to share pictures. Flickr serves as an example of the emerging trend toward community classification of online information and resources; however, it also functions as a basic photo sharing site as well.
  • iPodder.org
    iPodder is a program that helps individuals automatically download audio files, usually MP3s, directly to a digital audio player. Currently iPodder is supported on both Windows and Mac platforms and works with iPods and any other digital audio player that supports Windows Media Player (WMP). Any device that can exchange files with WMP will work with iPodder. iPodder.org is home to the community that develops iPodder applications and programming.

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