2006 Horizon Project Wiki 
Welcome to the 2006 Horizon Project Wiki. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the foci for the 2006 Horizon Report, co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the [EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)|http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=86&bhcp=1.
All of the discussions, content, and comments that were part of the selection process are included here, and now we have opened the wiki up to the NMC membership to continue the discussions.
For additional detail on the timeline, including all activities and due dates, click here or on the graphic above. The menu below will lead you to a variety of resources, news items, discussion areas, links, and more.
Please consider this our collective work area, and feel free to add comments, content, categories, new pages, and lots more resources. You can edit the content of this or any page using the Edit link on the right.
The items in these areas are meant to grow – please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning – and above all, leave comments!
Discussion Area – weigh in on these topics, or add new ones!
STATUS: Advisory Board members continue to comment on the discussion topics listed below, and are encouraged to add new topics as they see a need.
PROCESS: Within each of the discussion areas below, each Advisory Board member is asked to make at least one observation. In particular, we would like to identify those topics in the previous Horizon Reports which may still be relevant, or which may have moved to a closer planning horizon. In addition, we'd like to gain insight into any that may have missed the mark.
- Where are they now? — 2005 Horizon Report Active Discussion
- Where are they now? — 2004 Horizon Report Active Discussion
- What's Missing? — things we've not yet considered, but should Active Discussion
Sandbox — this is the space where most of the work of the 2006 Horizon Report was initally captured
First Pass at Rankings
STATUS: Advisory Board members have conducted the first pass at ranking the technologies, trends, and challenges that will become the focus of the 2006 Horizon Report and the initial analysis of those rankings is completed. Each Advisory Board member was given 10 votes to allocate among the items listed under each of the five questions (50 votes total) as a way of indicating the relative importance of the items to our foci of teaching, learning and creative expression.
Summaries of completed work
- 2006 Short List One-page descriptions of the 12 technologies ranked highest from the more than 80 originally considered.
- Research Question Ranking Summaries Summaries of the raw rankings of the responses to each of the research questions
- Responses to the Research Questions Downloadable pdf reflecting posts as of 10/25/2005
- Summary of the 15 Top-Ranked Press Clippings Downloadable pdf reflecting rankings as of 10/15/2005
- October 5 Advisory Board Meeting at Yale
Wiki sections where work has been completed
Press Clippings – technology news and reports that informed our work
STATUS: Advisory Board members have reviewed the articles in this section, and selected the ones they thought were most important to our work. The items in the categories below have been rank ordered.
- Emerging Technologies
- Trends and Potential Trends
- Google Watch
- Miscellanea -- Stories, Examples, Food for Thought
The categories below are not ranked.
- Government and Technology
- Digital Rights
- Live Tech News – Selected RSS Feeds
- del.icio.us Links
- Published 'Technologies to Watch' Lists
Advisory Board Resources – the place to find publications and resources of the Horizon Project
- 2005 Horizon Report
- 2004 Horizon Report
- 2006 Advisory Board members
- For more Advisory Board Resources, click here.