THE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FRONT IN 2011Jo Meyertons, EdD

HOW I GOT HERE

RIGHT NOW: A WORLD OF APPS, EXTENSIONS AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Visualize Collaborate Manage the work load efficiently Students to engage in their own learning

ONLINE STORAGE AND COLLABORATION Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com Box: http://www.box.net Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/ TeamUp: http://teamup.aalto.fi/

EASIEST BLOG TOOL EVER

Posterous: http://posterous.com Edublogs.org (great blogs site for educators)

PICNIK IMAGE EDITOR http://www.picnik.com/

TAG CLOUDS – CLOUD COMPUTING

http://www.wordle.net

MANYEYES DATA VISUALIZATIONhttp://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/Also try: LucidChart: https://www.lucidchart.com

ANIMATION TOOLS

http://www.voki.com - ad free for education http://www.xtranormal.com/

SCREENCAST-O-MATIChttp://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

ENGRADE AND PIAZZA http://www.engrade.com/ Piazza: http://piazza.com/

HISTORY PIN

http://www.historypin.com/

WHAT’S NEXT?

Social learning > Connectivism > MOOCs (http://change.mooc.ca/)

Mobile technologies The Semantic Web – bricolear learning Gesture based computing – think Wii or Kinect

The Horizon Report: http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/learn