Horizon Report 2010 Annotated
Horizon Technologies:
Open Classrooms: Tufts OCW as example
Simple Augmented Reality (often in combination with Mobile):
- “EAT layer” on maps to show restaurants;
- zombie board game from Georgia Tech that you look at through your phone to see where the zombies are and to kill them; add “skills” to board, and these are also interpreted by phone
- book + webcam -> materialized layer of globe to show places, etc.
Gesture-based Computing:
Visual Data Analysis:
- VisMaster
- Cell phone overlay on Earth at night: broader than electric grid
Lightning Round of Innovations:
1. Shannan Butler, St. Edward’s U: www.thedigitalrhetorician.com
- ManyEyes
- Word Tree: “go play!”
- Analysis of Bush speech justifying war in Iraq: “Hussein” | “Iraq” | “America” | “Iraqis”
- “Cluster Criticism” methodology – Kenneth Burke
- “Construction of an Enemy” – Nowlen, et al.
- Build credibility in method for students
2. Holly Willis, USC, Critical Commons – “for fair and critical participation in media culture”
- Center for Social Media
- Curated lectures and playlists
- “Remix pedagogy“
3. iPod Touch Initiative, Central Mich U
- ChipCast @ CMU built on Podcast Producer
- iPod touches rented to students @ $35/semester through bookstore
- 30% purchased after semester; 30% already had them
- coverage on USA Today and AP
4. HotSeat:
- “meet students where they are”
- laptop, smart phone as entryway
- what are the students thinking?
- imports from twitter via texting phones
- Facebook app now
- Topic: 140-character default limit: “Fresh” | “Hot” | “Deep Thoughts”
- 250+ students
- back channel / front channel examples – front channel use case with faculty member who is ~70% deaf and could see input from students this way
- Majority said: “kept me more engaged/interested in class topics”
- average grades correlate with number of posts/replies (caution about drawing conclusions from small, local sample)
5. Klara Nahrstedt, Teleimmersive Environment for Everyone (TEEVE), MIT, Florida International U, Illinois
- “Shared simulated environment”
- Telepresence
- photorealistic
- stereo cameras via Internet 2
- Cairo teleimmersion
Horizon Project Info:
~40,000,000 readers of Horizon Report (how calculated? potential or actual audience?)
-”global edition” is the one we read
- also now K-12 edition and Australia/New Zealand edition
- all-Spanish process planned for next year.
Process of bringing the group quickly to consensus through iterative voting.
New Horizon Project initiatives:
1. Horizon Project Navigator:
- daily filter for news on emerging technologies
- pull down real-time data from project
- HP support (significant)
- fee-based + free services
2. Comment Press to annotate: wp.nmc.org/horizon2010
3. Nominations for 2011 Advisory Board: http://bit.ly/horizon-nominate
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