Top 10 Emerging Educational Technologies

TOP 10: Emerging Web-based Technologies… (as of 8:00am on May 15, 2008) G. Andrew Page, PhD Assistant Professor College of Education University of Alaska Anchorage [email_address] Copyleft

-Theoretical Framework- Learning 2.0 Community of Learners John Seely Brown and Richard Adler Minds on Fire

#10 Vod & Fvod

http://www.learner.org/view_programs/view.programs.html

http://gandrewpage.com/edmovies

http://gandrewpage.com/webquest

#9 Open-Source Network

http://Openoffice.org

A Word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a powerpoint type program…Free TISATAAFL

Benefits of OpenOffice…

no commercial licenses or software compliance issues to worry about

no language barriers - if it’s not yet available in your language, the chances are it will be soon

available on all major computing platforms

the source code for the software is freely available under a full OSI certified license

#7 Free Online Learning Open Courseware

100 Free Courses

Carnegie-Mellon University

Free! Free Tutoring

Constructional Benefits

http://www.instructables.com/ “Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff”.

Free Techtorials

# 6 e-Books Using collaborative approaches in the design of learning The UAA e-Learning e-Book Learning 2.0 e-Book (5mb, PDF) Free!

#5 Coursecasting

Panopto :

Video Interactive Conferencing Elluminate Live! WizIQ

iTunes U

Podcasting

"Podcasting is a means of distributing audio and video programs via the Internet that lets users subscribe to a number of files, also known as "feeds", and then hear or view the material at the time that they choose. A feed is usually in the MP3 audio format. "

- Wikipedia

An Example: U of Mich http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/profiles/umich.html

#4 Constructing Podcasts http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

#3 Emerging Web 2.0 Technologies

Community Social Software NING

BLOGS, VBLOGS— Collaborative

RSS Feeds

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a Web standard used for syndicating frequently-updated content to readers. Only two things are required: a connection to the Internet and a small application called a news reader, which is usually free.

BLOGS

"A weblog or blog is a web-based publication of periodic articles (posts), usually presented in reverse chronological order. It is an online journal with one or many contributors."

- Wikipedia

Blog Creation

A Blog (Free) http://www.blogger.com/start A local example of an educational Blog in action.

RSS Feeds Interface

NY Times RSS

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/

# 2 Assistive Technologies e.g.Dasher

Dasher is text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.

When operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse;

When operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker);

on a palmtop computer;

on a wearable computer.

The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 29 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.

(Free)

Engaged learning is inspiring greater performance in students, and VR is based around this model. Constructing Virtual Field Trips & WEBQUESTS Webquests Examples http://www.bestwebquests.com/ Teacher Tap: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic4.htm Virtual Reality & Education http://SecondLife.com #1 Engaged Virtual Learning

Creating Virtual Content