Challenges discussion
- Pacing: keeping up with new technologies; support; getting buy-in. Resource issues
- Faculty concern that engaged learning cannot happen digitally
- Economic stresses - or opportunities (cost savings: shifting resources, or free stuff)
- Student-faculty gap ("digital foreigners")
- Managing student expectations (multiple areas), and ultimately failing them
- Legal challenges IT must obey; students don't know this
- Difficulty in transferring informal learning practices to formal, academic situations
- Difference between academic and nonacademic work, and therefore expectations of campus
- Shifting assumptions about fair use of copyrighted works -- "If it's for a class, it's fair game, right?"
- EULAs unread
Cloud computing
- Wikis: Google Docs, one others. Help desk: we get asked for platforms.
- Google spreadsheets: lab management; data crunching; as data objects
- " " : combined with Google Maps as mashup
- Amazon: using Elastic Computing for CS; also backup for digital images
- preservation cyberinfrastructure
- problem: security and privacy in cloud? or are vendors better?
- "fog" - local instance, colocated
- pedagogy: vendors forcing class content into cloud
- pedagogy: students already using YouTube for hosting
Geo-everything
- Mapping arboretums, cross-referencing, creating course content
- Mobile angle: RFID, GPS units
- Campus maps: multiple libraries; next, insides of buildings!
- Pedagogies: mapping literature, history onto maps
- Gallery use
- Archaeology: dig up campus quad, capture images, then georeference them (SL version); mobile
- Oceanography: mapping ocean floors, define use zones, sunken objects - interdisciplinary (URI)
- Growth: needs visible examples; needs professional assistance
- History course: map of Harlem Renaissance places http://tinyurl.com/cxdxj9
Mobiles
- Battery life
- Spectrum of classroom prohibitions: personal to total
- Clickers on phones? example: Poll Everywhere
- Backchannel: use second screen; depends on faculty member
- Shift to low-cost devices (example: Flip camera): traditional uses, easier to
- Challenge: uneven ownership patterns, new digital divide?
- Challenge: eyesight
- Emergency notification: texting for emergencies only
- Out of class: general use; social use; commuter use
- Challenge: administrators demanding mobile support (Blackberry)
- Challenge: constraints on usage based on the social environment (e.g. hospitals)
- Challenge: Some devices exclusive to particular cell providers (Bb Storm-Verizon only; Bb Bold-AT&T only; Iphone-AT&T only)
Personal Web, social Web
- Wikis across curricula, emphasizing groupwork, collaboration
- Wikis available after class
- Wikis for helpdesk; some open to campus, others only for staff
- Libraries on Facebook
- Helpdesk staff scans Facebook for new students' technology concerns
- Ning: biology class to link to other resources, people; Ning to connect current classes with alumni
- Blogging in class: increasing on one campus; anthropologist has students blog cultural encounters; draws younger faculty
- RSS feeds in class: Titanic feed; German newspapers fed into German class
- Wikis for courses: students in a graduate-level applied math course co-create the "textbook" for the course by posting lecture notes, collaborating on problem set solutions
- RSS for libraries: persistent search on yourself; real win for profs
Semantic apps
- One grant project: build apps to let users move across disciplinary databases
- One problem: experts producing unstructured data
- automatic generation (cf Twisted Systems?)
- Recipe Tsar
- Archimedes Project at Harvard: http://archimedes.fas.harvard.edu/
- Wheaton has been encoding archival documents using TEI in classes, and has been playing with tools like Many Eyes to try to visualize those encoded texts
- Beta library search tools @ Harvard: http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/ (AquaBrowser)
Virtual worlds and gaming
- Harvard Cyberlaw
- Office hours, student presentations
- Music project, linking objects and sounds (UMass Boston)
- Possibility: virtual student center for distance learning
- Art display
- Research into virtual worlds (UMass Amherst)
Gaming
Back to campus
- Standardize and customize - mainstream and early adopters?
- Perhaps more self-support
Social media and the Horizon Report
Tagging: Horizon Report 2009 tag: hz09
Twitter
NITLE and emerging technologies:
Agenda for an April 2009 NERCOMP SIG:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 9:30am How was the Horizon Report created? Methodology & History
9:30am - 10:00am Cloud Computing
10:00am – 10:30am Geo-everything
10:30am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 11:15am Mobile Devices
11:15am - 12:00pm "The Personal Web"
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm The Semantic Web, Smart Objects
1:45pm - 2:30pm Updates on Social Media, Gaming, and Virtual Worlds
2:30pm - 3:00pm Discussion, and Next Steps on Your Campus
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