slick educator final final

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

Of 2011

THE SLICK EDUCATOR

or

EFFICIENCY

Technology != Efficiency

DROPBOX

For you - For them

Do away with lost flash drives, emailing files around, synch between home and office

Instant sharing of folders desktop to desktop

AMAZON KINDLE

Available for all devices

Instantly distributes latest bookmarks, notes to all devices

Distributes “popular” highlights

ETEXT

eText scene: iPad, Kindle, Kno, Galaxy, Play, Nook, Galaxy, Xoom

CourseSmart for instant desk copies

IPAD

Good Reader - carry all pdfs; annotate; file structure

BlackBoard

Keynote, Pages, Numbers

plus Netflix!

CROWDSOURCING

• Since everyone has camera, Internet…

IN CLASSROOM

Easy

Relay to course directly

Navigation on recorded speech or PowerPoint text

Camtasia Relay

GOOGLE BOOKS

Save a trip to the bookstore

Allowed to read a fixed number of pages by copyright holder

Need a bit of material for in-class example?

WOLFRAM ALPHA

Computational knowledge engine rather than a search engine

DRIVE• Daniel Pink

NEXT...

SIXTH SENSE Wearable Textural device

GARTNER SYMPOSIUM

• Cloud Computing

• Mobile and Media Tablets

• Social Communication/Collaboration

• Video

• Context aware computing

• Ubiquitous computing

GARTNER• Fabric-based infrastructure

• Next generation analytics

• Social analytics

• Storage class memory

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221

CONTACT• Kendall E. Martin, Ph.D.

• kmartin@mc3.edu

• Montgomery County Community College

• Blue Bell PA