Thursday, August 7th, 2008, 11:00 am - 12:30pm, Breakout 2
The 2008 Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies
Rachel S. Smith, New Media Consortium

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. This session will introduce the six technologies covered in the 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in the series. Participants will explore examples in each category and contribute to the ongoing Call to Scholarship with their own ideas and suggestions. The 2008 Horizon Report is available online at no cost at http://horizon.nmc.org.

Attendees will learn:
	The 6 emerging technologies identified in this year's report
	Explore examples in each category
	How to contribute to the ongoing Call to Scholarship

Rachel S. Smith is the Vice President, NMC Services for the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 260 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression. She is recognized for her work in making new technologies approachable for higher education faculty and staff through talks, trainings, and written materials. A specialist in project coordination, user interface design, and visual facilitation, Rachel leads the NMC's fee-based services units, directs the NMC's involvement in projects such as the open source Pachyderm project, and directs all NMC internal and external publications. She serves as an interorganizational liaison, bringing together NMC members from around the globe to develop new projects. Rachel authors instructional materials, guides, and monographs on the creative and technical aspects of teaching with technology.

	Jim Nuttle will be recording Rachel's session. Jim joined the IFVP this year and we welcome Jim to his first IFVP conference this August.
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Rachel's presentation on Vuvox

The NMC 2008 report

Specific sites and tools referenced:

Jumpcut

iMovie

VuVox

Ning

Second Life

sl.nmc.org
NMC's space in Second Life that you can use as a easy entry into the wider world of SL.

UStream.tv

Hans Rosling's TED Talk about data mining and visualization

Woody Allen's mashup, What's Up TIger Lily?

Flickr maps
example Blue Jays in America, see where in the US people have taken pictures of blue jays.

PicLens

HumanBrainCloud

Social networking systems: LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook
evolving towards
Social OPERATING systems, ex. Xobni

Drawing live to a virtual team? Screensharing? LiveMeeting, eluminate, Adobe Connect, iCohere, SketchCast.com, WebEx, GoToMeeting, Yugma, Skype's whiteboard, CrossLoop

Camtastia
To make video recording off of computer screen

Rachel closed the session by asking three questions. She would like participants to consider these and welcomes responses.

1. What are the missing pieces for this technology or practice to be useful to you in your work?

2. What research or demonstration projects would you like to see happening around this topic?

3. What are some ways this technology or practice could impact teaching, learning, or communication if it were broadly adopted?

Rachel S. Smith Vice President, NMC Services The New Media Consortium rachel@nmc.org | www.nmc.org