ComETS Emerging Trends Mashup

April 25, 2007, 11a-1p,

Room 228  Educational Sciences, 1025 W. Johnson St.

Public URL for this agenda: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dzszn59_18f9f455

11:05a-11:15a  

Introduction, overview of the emerging trends landscape
Joyce Tikalsky

•    Meeting logistics
•    Introductions by new members or special guests
•    Next events: 
     ComETS Sampler,  Teaching & Learning Symposium, June 1st, 11 - 1 pm, Pyle Center
     Aaron Brower, Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning, Wednesday, June 13th, 11:45am-1:00pm, 126 Memorial Library
     Collaborative Tools, Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 9AM - Noon, Pyle Center

Overview of emerging trends landscape:

•    Hype cycles: The Gartner Group. 2006: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=495475    (see new emerging trends and new buzz words.  See hype cycle chart).
•    Topic monitoring: Feeds, listservs, personal or social bookmarking, professional development. O'Reilly Radar blog, Emerging Technology section, http://radar.oreilly.com/emerging_tech/; Slashdot, http://slashdot.org/. Professional associations as key sources.
•    "New expectations": Inspiration - "Social Networking Technologies: A 'Poke' for Campus Services," by Joanne Berg, Lori Berquam, and Kathy Christoph (March 28 ComETS listserve posting by Dirk Herr-Hoyman from Educause Review, March/April 2007, volume 42, number 2, http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0721.asp)

       "How can campus professionals, especially those in student and academic services, learn to use these technologies to think differently about communicating with students and about facilitating learning?" Should we use public services, such as pbwiki or develop custom processes in colleges, departments, and groups? For instance, how could or should these services be used to deliver news or encourage more students to study engineering. Define process requirements by creating "collaboratories."

11:15a-11:35a

Emerging Technologies Sampler: Google Suite, and more..
Dirk Herr-Hoyman

Free Google Apps including gmail, google groups which allow you to gather files, discussions, Google talk (chat).    Google desktop,  Google Maps and my maps.    Nice drawing tool - to add elements and annotations to My Maps to look at land use and real world things happening.

Sketchup - do 3D drawings.   Draw and place on Google Earth.

Another trend:   Second Life.   and   Sloodle  (Moodle meets Second Life)

online course activities, and launch into SL.   

11:35a-11:55a

Tools and Techniques for Tracking Emerging Technologies
Amanda Werhane

   1. Minimize repetitive searching

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• Set up saved searches, email alerts, Google alerts,
• or RSS feeds

   2. Maximize successful finding

• Go beyond Google to the "deep web"
• Go beyond free to online library subscriptions
• Use broader terms, narrower terms, related terms, and synonyms
• Use truncation symbols
• Link to full-text with Find It

   3. Manage your information

• Try RefWorks - online library research management tool

11:55a-12:15p

PSU's Hot Teams, Rapid Assessment of Emerging Technologies

http://show.zoho.com/public/doug_lss/psu-s-hot-teams

Doug Worsham

Form team

Meet

Research               an Ongoing iterative collaborative

Brainstorm

Write

Publish Outcome

Penn State plan for "University implementation" through the hot team process.
Consider to share the work we do.


Other questions?

1. Will Google become the next Microsoft ?

2. Question about Records management and using these tools in a class.    

      See Records Management Bulletin for web-based learning: http://archives.library.wisc.edu/RM/ARMS/arms3a.html 

12:15a-12:40p

Breakout Session

Catherine Stephens

  1. Emerging Trends, which topics do you watch?

  2. How do you manage key information? What processes work best for you?

  3. How do you prevent overload, both from monitoring topics and
     managing email and listserv participation?

  4. How can ComETS serve as a forum to help you stay current?

  5.  Other questions.

12:40p-1:00p

Reconvene, report out, and closing

Catherine Stephens