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

Originaly this site served to support a workshop sponsored by

that was originally held at UMass Amherst (see calendar info at ==> Nercomp Calendar listing for this workshop).

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
[Emerging Technologies References]
Short URL : http://nercompSIG.notlong.com

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

Emerging Technologies - AGENDA -

PreSession Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=305582087059

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Coffee

1) 9:00am - 9:40am - Introduction: what we are talking about.. what not?

• Ground rules
• What are we doing today
• Who we are....
• Survey discussion (pre-conference survey of participants)
• Group introductions
  • Who
  • What
  • Get out of this
  • One surprising thing about you
    (like your blogs)

Discussion notes from introductory session

2) 9:40am - 11:20am - Introduction to Emerging Technologies... (overview)PDL

• There are lots out there...
  • Picking them
  • Assessing them
  • What do you do with them?
  • Where do you look?
  • Horizon Report (PDL)
    • Phil's presentation of the Horizon Report
    1. Social Computing (PDL)
    2. Personal Broadcasting (CL)
       • Digital storytelling(BNA)
       • Videoblogging (Rocketboom) (BNA)
       • Web video (YouTube, Google Video, VideoSift) (BNA)
    3. The Phones in Their Pockets (BNA)
       • One future
       • One present (one-third)
       • Buddybuzz
       • Helio connects Phones to MySpace
    4. Gaming (BNA)
       • MMOGs (Second Life, World of Warcraft, Croquet, America's Army)
       • a 2005 seminar
    5. Augmented Reality ARlinks (BNA)
    6. Context-Aware Environments and Devices
• The Institutional framework

• • Sustaining them & scaling up (CL)(PDL)

Introduction session discussion notes

10:30am - 10:45pm <Break> 15 min

3) 11:25am - 11:50am - Collaborative Writing

• Writely, wikis
  • Pedagogical examples
    1. Romantic Audiences Project
    2. Cambridge/MIT Education Exchange
• MIT LAI - Product Lifecycle - restricted site but will be demonstrated at the workshop.

Collaborative writing discussion notes

11:50am - 12:50pm <LUNCH> (PDL

4) 12:50pm - 3:00pm - Personal Digital Conversations (BA?)

• Blogging (dialogues) (BA) (PDL)
  • Social versus personal media: LastFM and Pandora
  • Examples of emerging forms
    • Journals going further (Riverbend)
    • Aggregation (Regional)
    • Re-presenting content 17th-century diary, the return of the Count
    • Class blog
    • Students abroad
    • Library-based blogs
    • Public intellectuals, right and left (are we different now?)
    • Class and research blog
    • Search - Technorati,, Google Blogsearch, Gnosh
• Podcasting (monologues) (CL)
• Flickr (CL)
• Protecting your IP - Creative Commons
• Tagging - delicious/Connotea (CL)
• Distributing Content
  • RSS
  • Bloglines
• Pedagogical examples
  • Podcasting chemistry @ Bryn Mawr
  • A Donne A Day and Students do Donne
  • Napoleon 101
  • Flickr anatomical images
  • Blogging Antartica
  • Harvard Extension Course in Computer Science 'Bits'- available from iTunes Podcasts

Personal digital conversations session discussion notes

6) 3:00pm - 3:10pm - Conclusions

• What do you do?
• Who does it?
• Who is involved
• Planning for sustained innovation?
• How to foster innovation given your context?
• Developing the language for innovation.

Conclusion notes

Total Time: 300 min. – 5 hrs