slick educator final final
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Trends to be on top of if you want the Moniker "Slick Educator"TRANSCRIPT
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.
• Montgomery County Community College
• Blue Bell PA