This wiki includes information on various emerging technologies and how they may be used for teaching and learning, as well as exemplars of their use in higher education.
Faculty from over 20 institutions participated in the creation of this information resource in two sections of the FRN 2009 Summer Seminar "New Technologies for Teaching and Learning" (held on June 8-12, 2009 at New York University, sponsored by the Faculty Resource Network).
Emerging technologies included in this wiki:
- Wikis & Collaborative web-based tools: e.g., Google docs, Google sites, pbworks
- Social Networking: e.g., LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Ning
(see sectiion 1's group presentation's links at: http://delicious.com/bctaylor/frn?sort=alpha&order=asc)
- Real Simple Syndication (RSS)/Aggregators: e.g., Google Reader, Netvibes
- Social Bookmarking: e.g., Diigo, Delicious
- Podcasting: e.g., Audacity, GarageBand (fee, MAC only) + Odeon.com or podomatic.com for creating podcast channel.
- Screencasting: e.g., Jing (MAC & PC), Ambrosia SnapZ ($70, Mac only)
- Imaging/multi-media: e.g., Youtube (video), GoogleVideo (Video), Flickr (photo)
- Web/video conferencing: e.g., Skype, Webex (fee)
- Blogs: e.g., Blogger, WordPress
- E-portfolios: e.g., TaskStream (fee), Digication (fee), Epsilen
- Virtual worlds: e.g., Second Life
- Educational Gaming: e.g., Democracy, FoodForce
- Student Response Systems: e.g., iClicker (fee), Turning Technologies (fee)
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