Shortlist 1b

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] Online Collaborative Workspaces

An online collaborative workspace serves as a hub where a group of people can work or socialize. Unlike productivity applications, which enable a user to perform a specific task or create a particular product, collaborative workspaces are “places” where groups of people gather resources or information related to their personal or professional lives. These workspaces include do-it-yourself social networks like Ning (http://www.ning.com); sharable personalized start pages that are “pagecast” from services like Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com) or Pageflakes (http://www.pageflakes.com); and third-party social networks like Facebook (http://www.facebook.com). These spaces make it easy for people to collect a set of tools to keep in touch, share interests and ideas, and keep tabs on each other.

The tools, or widgets, can pull information from a variety of sources, including Flickr, Twitter, MySpace or Facebook, news and weather feeds, del.icio.us, blog feeds and more. The API (application programming interface) for such spaces enables the development of third-party widgets—often designed by people in the user community—that allow almost infinite extensibility and customization based on a group’s needs or interests. For example, a page could include a calendar widget populated with data from the group’s online calendaring system, or a whiteboard widget where visitors can type messages for one another.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Groups can set up a single location to get information related to their topic or course.
• Online workspaces facilitate serendipitous connections between people with like interests.
• Students can create a “portfolio” page that automatically updates as new work is blogged, podcast, or posted to photo or video sharing sites.

[edit] Examples

• Collected psychology resources on Pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/sheryl.adam/14404094
• ScoPE is a community of practicing educators hosted by Simon Fraser University: http://www.pageflakes.com/sylvia/5736552/
• The National Forum on Canadian History is a one-day event with its own pagecast, including documents, photos and videos: http://www.pageflakes.com/cnhs/14568889

[edit] For Further Reading

Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network (Mark Hendrickson, TechCrunch, July 24, 2007) This blog post describes nine tools that can be used to build collaborative workspaces. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/24/9-ways-to-build-your-own-social-network

Pageflakes, Netvibes Take on Social Networks: What Chance Do They Have? (Richard MacManus, Read/Write Web, July 22, 2007) This blog post discusses the emergence of services like Pageflakes and Netvibes and compares them to large social networking sites like Facebook. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pageflakes_netvibes_take_on_social_networks.php

Using Pageflakes as a Student Portal (Will Richardson, weblogg-ed, November 21, 2007) This blog post describes how to set up a Pageflakes portal for educational purposes. http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/using-pageflakes-as-student-portal/

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[edit] Discussion

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