TECHNOLOGY TRENDS Of 2011
THE SLICK EDUCATOR or
EFFICIENCY Technology != Efficiency
DROPBOX For you - For them Do away with lost flash drives, ing 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
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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
CONTACT Kendall E. Martin, Ph.D. Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell PA