Shortlist 1a

From Horizon Project

2008 Short List [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Webware Collaborative Workspaces Simple Video Capture and Sharing Community Tagging [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Mobile Geotagging Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds Scholarly Mashups [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Collective Intelligence Social Operating Systems Open Education Resources Alternative Interaction Devices [edit] Key Trends Growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools is changing our ideas of scholarly contribution and community Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship As the amount and variety of content increases, it is becoming more difficult to filter the noise to find the signal Smaller, more powerful devices are offering increased access and portability The gap between students’ perception of technology and that of faculty continues to grow The environment of higher education continues to change, with a growing trend toward open innovation [edit] Critical Challenges Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers There are significant shifts taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression, and learning, and a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy There is a growing need for formal instruction in 21st-century literacies, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy Higher education is facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment

Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less

[edit] Webware

Your web browser is now a portal to an array of free tools for tasks like writing, calculating, presenting, and telling stories with digital media. For productivity, webware suites like Zoho Office and Google Docs offer most everything that off-the-shelf packages provide, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentation tools, and more, without the need to buy or install any software. Documents and other content created with these tools are easily sharable—not only distribution of the finished work, but also for collaboration during creation. Rather than mailing around multiple copies of a static, local file, colleagues are working on a single copy that all can see and edit, and these files are available from any location where there is a web browser. Many web-based productivity applications can also import from and export to standard desktop file formats.

For creative expression, digital storytelling, and other purposes, there are webware applications that can handle photo and video manipulation (see http://www.splashup.com for photos and http://www.jumpcut.com for videos, to name just two examples); capture a sketch with audio narration (http://www.sketchcast.com); or create presentations and slideshows (http://www.slideshare.net; http://www.slide.com). A key feature of webware applications is that they can be small and easy to develop, making it possible to design custom applications for particular uses.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Groups can collaborate on projects online, anywhere there is Internet access.
• Faculty can evaluate student work and add detailed comments online.
• Students can incorporate multimedia cheaply and easily and publish it for others to view.

[edit] Examples

• Wharton College uses a custom webware app to help students sign up for courses using their unique auction system: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=19
• Michigan State University offers a set of webware apps that allow faculty to build interactive language learning resources on the fly: http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/index.php
• Arizona State University offers Google applications, including mail, calendaring, and chat to its 65,000 students: http://www.asu.edu/emailsignup/

[edit] For Further Reading

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine, 2007). This wiki describes nearly 50 web applications for presentation and digital storytelling. http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+ways

Educational Uses of Google Docs & Spreadsheets (Steve Gilbert, Cynthia Russell, TLT-SWG, March 8, 2007) This resource page by The Teaching, Learning and Technology Group features materials about the educational use of Google Docs & Spreadsheets. http://www.tltgroup.org/FridayLive/20070309GoogleDocsEdUsesResources.htm

What’s Driving Adoption of Rich Internet Applications? (Ryan Stewart, The Universal Desktop, November 19, 2007) This blog post examines possible reasons why webware apps are growing in popularity and use. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=634

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