Welcome to the Emerging Technologies Workshop - well, the Emerging Tech Wiki...

Originaly this This site served serves to support a workshop workshops sponsored by originally . We held one in at UMass Amherst in May of 2006 (see calendar info at ==> Nercomp Calendar listing for this workshop). . The current workshop is taking place Tuesday, April 7th, 2008, once again at UMass Amherst.

We have created snapshots of this wiki from 2006 as a PDF which The wiki site for this workshop has been frozen in time as a PDF and can be downloaded from PDF of Emerging Technology Wiki site. The current wiki snapshot will be fill-in when done
(Short URL : http://nercompSIG.notlong.com)

This site is now morphing to We hope this site will become an aggregation of emerging technology tools, references, and assessment references, along with whatever musings seem relevant at the time they were written.

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One good place to start is the NMC Horizon Project which annually tries to look at what technologies are likely to have a substantive impact on teaching, learning and the creative arts across three time horizons: within the next 12 months, in the next 1-3 years and in the next 3-5 years (aka "beyond").

• NMC Horizon Report
  • Horizon Report 2008
  • Informe Horizon 2007 - Spanish language translation- translation thanks to the Open University of Catalonia
  • L'Informe Horizon 2007 - Catalan language translation - translation thanks to the Open University of Catalonia
  • Horizon Report 2007
  • Horizon Report
• Horizon Report presentations
  • A prentationa about the NMC Horizon 2006 report Report

A brief list of the topics covered in the 2008 Horizon Report along with some illustrative examples follow:

*Grassroots video

• • Merlot Elixir
  • MIT TechTV
  • Learning From YouTube: MS135 at Pitzer College
  • Custome YouTube Channels
    • University of California Berkely
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County
    • University of New South Wales, Australia
  • VideoANT
• Collaboration Webs
  • Digital Entrepreneurship Community at RIT
  • San Francisco State University's Digital Information Virtual Archive (DIVA)
  • Google Apps at Arizona State University
  • Melbourne 2051 at Victoria University
  • National Forum on Canadian History
  • Skoolaborate

    Info
    title Two to Three Years

• Mobile Broadband
  • Montclair State University
  • Pocket Virtual Worlds, a collaboration between Bowling Green State & Case Western
  • Wiki City Rome - A Senseable City Project
  • Zonetag
• Data Mashups
  • Havaria Information Services Alert Map
  • Interactive Learning Resources at Michigan State University
  • Interactive Map Tool
  • Minnesota Interactive Internet Mapping Project
  • Research at Pompeu Fabra University

    Info
    title Four to Five Years

• Collective Intelligence
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A brief list of the topics covered in the 2006 Horizon Report along with some illustrative examples follow:

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