Welcome to the Emerging Technologies workshop. This web page is the "start page" for our wiki pages, which contain or link to most of the day's content.
...the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.
"Technology creates feasibility spaces for social practice."
- Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks
Outline for the day:
participants, program, and the shared technological world
themes: pedagogy; interface; net.gen; economy
open content; aggregators; cloud computing; e-books
one company's 2019 imagination (YouTube)
discussion; conclusion
(and the prompts)
This NITLE research workshop was launched in fall 2006, and has since been hosted by Ursinus College, Union College, Pomona College, Rhodes College, Whitman College,the University of Puget Sound, the University of Richmond, Allegheny College, Knox College, Southwestern University, Lake Forest College, Bucknell University, Lees-McRae College, Rollins College, Davis and Elkins College, Wheaton College, Occidental College, and Colby College (Colby ET participant notes). The most current workshop is the one generously hosted by Albion College, in January 2010. Some of the content here was contributed by those participants, and we use it gratefully.
Link to Bryan's presentations on SlideShare:http://www.slideshare.net/BryanAlexander
A blog entry on this presentation
SOME CLASS STUFF -- 2006-2008
"Poetry [and social software] is never finished, only abandoned." -- Paul Valery
Information Science at the University of Missouri http://lisradio.missouri.edu/
Some YouTube projects of Oxy Media Studies' students postingshttp://www.youtube.com/user/ARTF243
http://mediatedcultures.net/worldsim.htm An example from Michael Wesch at Kanasas State of the pedagogical use of a world simulation game in anthropology
http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/02/autumn200702 links to a Vanity Fair journalist who went on an epic quest to find the photographer for a (now-)famous background image used in Windows XP.
http://flickr.com/search/?q=ripton&z=t Don't know how many Ripton's there are, but there are 286 results on flickr for the term (many (most?) of them posted by Bryan).
http://www.flickr.com/map?woe_id=2409678 The flickr mashup of Georgetown, TX.
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=35702 Thunder at freesound.
http://www.versificator.co.uk/hamlet/ GREAT text-based game that's, sortof, Shakespeare's Hamlet.
http://www.educationarcade.org/revolution This is a blog post about the American Revolution game Bryan mentioned.
http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/worlds/ The syllabus for Delwiche's course at Trinity on video games.
http://www.yellowarrow.org/ That crazy augmented reality site we heard about.
http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/ Web 2.0, err, jargon generator.
http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html Web 2.0 name generator. (Which of the two previous sites is serious? You decide.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir Similar to Bryan's example of the Counter-Revolution, take a look at the first sentence of the article, then click the "discussion" tab and take a look at how thoroughly the few individuals who edited it considered how that first sentence ought to be worded.
http://tiddlywiki.com/ The wiki Bryan Alexander personally recommends!
http://flickr.com/photos/nitle NITLE's Flickr photos