Emergent and mobile technologies in EDU

• Wireless technologies -- laptops, PDAs, smart phones, and tablet PCs
• Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
• Personal Response Systems (PRS or "clickers")
• Pachyderm -- an open source authoring environment for creators of web-based and multimedia learning experiences
• Podcasting -- automatic downloading of audio files for listener's convenience
• Social software -- projects connecting people, such as wikis, blogs and social bookmarking; also includes RSS

Recent coverage from USNews & World Report on use of emergent technologies in education:

• Teaching with Tech: Podcasts, backchannels and bookless libraries come to campus
• Undergraduate Life Unplugged
• More Tech Tools in Campus Classrooms

Return to the Faculty Technology Festival event schedule...

More on wireless technologies (from Rhett Thatcher)...

• Mobile learning in higher education...
• Setup secure wireless connections on the SLU network:
  • Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above)
  • Windows XP Professional
• Unpacking wireless acrononyms
  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    • IEEE802
    • 802.11a/b/g wireless standards
    • 802.1x Network Admission Control
  • WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
  • SSID (Service Set Identifier)
• PDAs (Personal Data Assistants)
  • Palm OS
  • Windows Mobile CE
• Cingular Online

More on Global Positioning Systems (from Bill Olsen)...

• GPS Fundamentals
  • Trimble tutorial
  • How GPS works
  • GPS Operations Center
  • US Coast Guard Navigation Center
• GPS in Education
  • USGS Resources
  • NITLE Resources
  • 7 things you should know about ...Augmented Reality * (PDF)
• GPS Software Resources
  • ArcExplorer for ESRI
  • Garmin Extension for Arcview (Minnesota DNR)
• More GPS
  • Fun with GPS
  • Geocaching "the sport where You are the search engine"
  • Degree Confluence Project

More on Pachyderm (from Chris Watts)...

Want to build media-rich, sophisticated websites or learning  objects without learning complicated software? Pachyderm might be for  you...

• Pachyderm is a form-driven service; fill out the forms and it generates flash code automagically! Learn more...

More on Personal Response Systems (from Jim Forney)...

• 7 things you should know about ...Clickers * (PDF)
• See also Patti Frazer Lock's "Best Practices..." project using PRS with Calculus

More on podcasting (from Ryanne Araujo)...

• 7 things you should know about ...Podcasting * (PDF)
• What is Podcasting and Why Should You Care?
• Odeo multipurpose podcasting resource
• Educational Resources
  • There's Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education by G. Campbell (EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 6)
  • Educause Pocket Edition #1 Invasion of the iPods
  • Educause Pocket Edition #2 It's Pod Mania!
  • Podcasting and the Liberal Arts by Bryan Alexander (NITLE News, vol. 4, no. 3)
• Tutorials and guides
  • Feedforall podcasting tutorial
  • All the World's a Podcast
  • How to receive and listen to podcasts
• Podcasting Directories
  • iTunes Podcast Directory
  • Podcasting News
  • iPodder-podcast directory
  • Podcast.net
  • Podcast Alley
  • Podcast Directory

More on social software(from Sondra Smith)...

General social software: friendster, facebook, Tribe.net

Blogs: Blogger, memorandum, TravelBlog; Moblogs (mobile blogs): TextAmerica; Photo blogs: flickr; Vlogs (video blogs): Rocketboom

• 7 things you should know about ...Blogs * (PDF)
• 7 things you should know about ...Videoblogging * (PDF)

• NITLE's blog laboratory includes examples from teaching and learning in the liberal arts
• More examples in higher education:
  • Using Blogs to Teach Philosophy (Linda E. Patrik at Union College)
  • More Thoughts on Teaching and Learning: Lesson Learned (Barbara Ganley at Middlebury College)
  • Incorporating Blogging in a Free Speech Course (David Reichard at CSU Monterey Bay)
  • Weblogs in Higher Education (portal)
• Edublog awards for scholarly and education focused bloggers
• Lulu Blooker Prize -- literary award for blooks
• Technorati's blog search; Google's blog search

Wikis: Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Scoop

• 7 things you should know about ...Wikis * (PDF)

Social Bookmarking: del.icio.us, Furl, Simpy, citeulike

• 7 things you should know about ...Social Bookmarking * (PDF)
• New Web Services for Teaching and Learning (NITLE News, vol.4 no. 4)
• NITLE's social software user's group (SSUG) facilitates this work in liberal arts education; see upcoming meeting info

RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs (more from Wikipedia...)

• Aggrssive from University of British Columbia has been developed for users to store RSS feeds, then mix and republish

*7 things you should know about... is an ELI (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatve) publication series on "emerging learning technologies and related practice."

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