Finding out more about NMC and the Reports
Check out the NMC website to understand more about the organization.
The NMC wiki documents the annual process to review a wide range of technologies and narrow the selection to 6! It also provides a way to review and compare past report predictions and identifies 'metatrends'.
The NMC report comments page allows anyone to voice an opinion of any or all parts of the report.
the main New Media Consortium web site with links to current and past Horizon report pdfs
Home page documents the progress of each year's advisory board and contains a summary of the final technologies contained in the published reports.
Check out the Metatrends and the Where Are They Now? pages of this wiki to get a sense of common threads and missed predictions by this group.
you can comments on any part of the report or just review what other people said...
Scott Leslie's comments on the Horizon Report (which he was a part of this year)
Mobile Devices - within 1 year
explore some of the examples of mobile devices in education
an example of using delicious tags to explore examples of mobile devices - the 2009 Horizon Project pick for technology to impact within 1 year
one of the ways UBC is using mobiles for education
student group at Stanford designed mobile apps for university - finding your ways, what's going on, course inforamtion, etc.
Cloud Computing - within 1 year
explore some exmaples of the use of the 'cloud' in education
examples collected for hz09 on cloud computer - within 1 year impact predicted
an example of cloud computing in Canada
GeoEverything - within 2 to 3 years
explore some of the current and potential application of geolocation and geotagging within education
a good overview of geolocation and geotagging
The personal web
Explore how people are personalizing the web to filter and organize the massive amounts of information available.
Referenced in the 2009 Horizon Report as an example of the Personal Web, a technology expected to impact higher education in 2-3 years.
selected for the 2-3 year window in the 2009 Horizon Report
Semantic-aware Applications
Explore some examples of tools and applications that provide meaning to information.
an example from 2-3 year horizon in the 2009 Horizon Report - uses the bottom up approach by allowing the searcher to define their search term more carefully - watch the 90 second video
an example of semantic web tool from the 2-3 year horizon - uses the top-down approach by establishing semantic algorithms or lexica - looks like a directory type search?
on the 4-5 year horizon of 2009 Horizon Report - Yahoo's Search Monkey is a mashup machine rather than a semantic search engine - so does that make it an example of a bottom-up or top-down approach to creating the Semantic Web?
Smart Objects
Now you can tag physical objects with computer-readable information - explore what some people plan to do with this technology
on the 4-5 year horizon - a system that lets you tag your personal objects to track them - somewhat scary I think!
from 4-5 year horizong in 2009 Horizon Report - this project tried to create an environment where physical objects, like books, could be annotated with contextual information that was added manually or retrieved automatically.
a better explanation of Thinkering Spaces
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starting from the Horizon Reports and from KnowledgeWorks Map of the Future...a list of examples of identified trends in educational technologies - what will be the most signficant technologies affecting education in the 1-5 year range.
Updated on Mar 07, 11
Created on Feb 07, 09
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