The document discusses evaluating emerging technologies for teaching and learning by examining their affordances. It defines affordance as the interactive possibilities of an object or environment and its suggested use. It then notes that combining affordances with stories can create collective meaning. The rest of the document outlines a framework for describing technologies through stories that identify a field, an emerging technology valuable to that field, what that technology provides, and how it changes understanding or practice in certain ways.

1. Evaluating Affordances Examining emerging technologies for teaching and learning Southwest Institute for Learning with Technology 2008- Flagstaff, AZ

2. Colleen Carmean Director of e-Learning & Strategic Technologies School of Global Management & Leadership Arizona State University

3. Affordance: the interactive possibilities of a particular object or environment, especially the invitation or use suggested therein. (Gibson)

5. Web 2 technologies

6. Story: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events

7. Affordance + Stories = collective meaning

8. Technology Story Framework From my field (____) The emerging technology I found valuable was (_____) Because it provides (_____) Thus, this technology changes our understanding and practice of (________) in (____) ways.

10. Singular Affordance http://tinyurl.com/6yqxep