Shortlist 2a

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: Two to Three Years

[edit] Mobile

The 2007 Horizon Report featured mobile devices, describing them as tiny tools for everything from voice conversations to video capture. In recent months, we have seen even more to indicate that mobile is increasingly about networking on the go. Better displays and new interfaces make it easier to interact with an ever-expanding variety of content—not just content formatted specially for mobiles, but nearly any content available on the Internet. Mobiles now keep us in touch in almost all the ways that laptops used to: with email, web browsing, document editing, and photo and video sharing, all available anywhere without the need to find a hotspot or a power outlet.

Newer, longer-lasting batteries keep our mobiles alive for longer trips between charges. Even the days of downloading and syncing updates from a computer are coming to an end: new push technology allows manufacturers to send updates directly to our devices. As more features are embedded in the software, the physical device will become more flexible simply by receiving the latest software updates. Open APIs encourage the creation of custom widgets that will offer even more services; combined with webware applications that already exist, the capabilities of mobiles will soon rival those of a computer with a web browser. Smaller and less expensive than a laptop, the mobile may well be the next portable computer.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Access to materials is increased: students carry mobiles when they would not carry laptops.
• Mobile phones that can display any web content provide access to a wider array of resources.
• The combination of social networking and mobility lets students and colleagues use online collaboration tools and social networking sites from anywhere they happen to be.

[edit] Examples

• gOffice is a word processor for the iPhone: http://www.goffice.com
• Pocket Virtual Worlds creates a 3-D walkthrough of real world sites on a mobile device: http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2007/07/pocket_virtual_worlds_creating.php
• SoonR lets you access everything on your PC from your mobile phone: http://www.soonr.com

[edit] For Further Reading

Invention of the Year: The iPhone
(Lev Grossman, TIME, 2007)
This article cites five reasons why the iPhone is “still the invention of the year” for 2007. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678542_1677891,00.html

Mobile Productivity Toolbox: 45+ Mobile Productivity Tools
(Johsua Ho, Mashable, August 21, 2007)
This is an annotated list of mobile tools for phones and WAP enabled web sites, grouped by what the tool is designed to do. http://mashable.com/2007/08/21/mobile-productivity-toolbox/

So Much More than Phone Calls
(Chris Betcha, Betchablog, October 10, 2007)
An Australian educator shares the tools he uses on a broadband-enabled cell phone. http://betch.edublogs.org/2007/10/10/so-much-more-than-phone-calls/

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