Shortlist 1d

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] Community Tagging

Tagging, the practice of attaching a descriptive word or phrase to a piece of online content for the purpose of linking it to other related content, has become a mainstream activity in the past year. Tagging is now being used in very creative and functional ways by people in all kinds of communities, scholarly and otherwise. Nearly every website designed for sharing media—whether audio, video, images or other media—includes a field for the author to tag the media at the time of upload. Most all of these sites also allow viewers to add their own tags. Social bookmarking sites allow users to tag—and in some cases, highlight and annotate—web pages for easy retrieval later. The power of community tagging is that large collections can be built with only minimal effort from any given member of the community.

Classes can use tags to accumulate and label shared resources; collaborators on research papers can tag and annotate online source material to review; interest groups can tag relevant material all over the Internet and easily find it again. Tagging extends the presence of an event beyond the dates and location where it takes place: photos, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and online materials used in or referred to by presentations at conferences can all be linked via a shared tag. Taken together, all those little pieces draw a vivid picture of the community and activities at that moment in time; and tagging is the powerful means to make those pieces discoverable, wherever they are on the Internet.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Researchers and students can classify resources as they are found and return to them later.
• Groups can collectively build and share a detailed resource list and embed dynamic content into other web sites.
• Scholars can share notes that can then be discovered by other researchers at any time.

[edit] Examples

• LibraryThing’s Tagmash lets readers search for books by using combinations of tags to include or exclude: http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/07/tagmash-book-tagging-grows-up.php
• Harvard’s EdTags is an annotated collection of resources tagged for educational use and vetted by the educational community: http://edtags.org/about.php
• A Trinity College course used Del.icio.us to create a reading list—and encouraged students to add to it: http://del.icio.us/smartmobs
• The NSW Learnscope 07 Conference has resources tagged on Technorati, Flickr, Slideshare, Del.icio.us, and other sites: http://nswlearnscope.com (the tag is nswlearnscope07)

[edit] For Further Reading

Social Bookmarking in Plain English
(Lee LeFever, Common Craft, August 7, 2007)
This brief (3.5-minute) video explains social bookmarking, using Del.icio.us as an example, in an engaging format. http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools
(Stan Schroeder, Mashable, July 13, 2007)
This is an annotated list of tools used for tagging and finding content of all kinds, both online and on an individual computer. http://mashable.com/2007/07/13/tagging-tools/

More resources tagged at http://del.icio.us/tag/hz08 -- If you have more, add or tag them in your own del.icio.us account with our official tag of hz08

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[edit] Discussion

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