What would you list among the established technologies that colleges and universities should all be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?
- Ubiquitous networks – not just wireless, but also high-speed networking, and especially highspeed networking to rurual areas, via powerlines (Diana Oblinger) Might push this further ahead in time. New Pew study finds broadband adoption nearing a plateau, after barely 1/2 of Americans signed on (Bryan Alexander)
- Community Networks – is the Internet a utility? (Diana Oblinger)
- Grid computing and e-Science – the ability to easily move and share large data sets, and to put authentic data int hehands of students could be transformational (Diana Oblinger)
- RSS – Has done much to foster individual expression – but we are only beginning to tap it for learning (Diana Oblinger)
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- Also, syndication of more then text content (images, audio, video) and tech to mix feeds from multiple sources into something new (Alan Levine)
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- video production and sharing - this has become much easier, and is already exfoliating into numerous delivery mechanisms (DVD, vlogging, OurMedia) (Bryan Alexander)
- audio production and sharing - see video preceding. Think of connections with other technologies, such as syndication (podcasting) and mobile devices (Bryan Alexander)
- Torrent technology putting it to educational use? (Alan Levine) See also IP issues, below (Bryan Alexander)
- net documents shared writing environments, documents that live on the network, not the desktop, wikis come to prime time (Alan Levine)
- web standard content creation tools It's time to stop making content not up to modern web standards that can be used on multiple devices, address accessibility (Alan Levine) Does this include microcontent? (Bryan Alexander)
- screen casting audior ecording captured over screen action; to do more than just explain how to use software, but to deliver advanced concepts (Alan Levine)
- folksonomic tools del.icio.us and Flickr - among others - are more than mature enough for use in academic environments. The possibilities for new ways of sharing, aggregating, and organizing information are endless. (Ruben Puentedura)
- Web 2.0 - aka the Read/Write Web, aka the Programmable Web, aka Web as platform. This is really a superordinate for a couple of the items above (net documents, folksonomic tools) and others. Follow the Wikipedia link wrapped around the title for this category. See this Web 2.0 Meme Map produced by Tim O'Reily and posted on Flickr. More visual representations. (Nick Noakes)
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