1. Emerging Technology StumbleUpon & QuizStar By Donna Perkins FOED 3010 Instructor, Ms. D. Crabtree

2. StumbleUpon’s Recommendation Technology StumbleUpon integrates peer-to-peer and social networking principles with one-click blogging to create an emergent content referral system. Our patent-pending toolbar system automates the collection, distribution and review of web content within an intuitive social framework, providing users with a browsing experience which resembles “channel-surfing” the web. This architecture has easily scaled to millions of users. StumbleUpon combines collaborative human opinions with machine learning of personal preference to create virtual communities of like-minded websurfers. Rating websites updates a personal profile (weblog) and generates peer networks of websurfers linked by common interest. These social networks coordinate the distribution of web content, such that users ‘stumble upon’ pages explicitly recommended by friends and peers. This social content discovery approach automates the “word-of-mouth” referral of peer-approved websites and simplifies web navigation.

3. StumbleUpon Stumbleupon is a quicker way to reach a webpage without going through other unwanted websites. This is a way to prevent spam and other websites that is not relevant to you When you join stumbleupon (for free) you will be able to enter your favorite topics and stumbleupon will track those and make it appealing to your taste.

4. You can Stumble Upon any website or category of your choosing. Click on the link above and check out the other participating websites

5. StumbleUpon For Teachers & Kids As a Teacher you can add the “For Kids” topic as your favorite and you will immediately be able to click from site to site without anymore searching ever!

6. QuizStar A Fun, Easy way for Teachers to develop their own online quizzes.

7. Teachers will be able to make their quizzes public or private. Click here Click here to view a math quiz that I made up for my 2 nd grade class in order to review for their test of Friday.

8. Conclusion This concludes my presentation on Emerging Technology. I hope that after you have viewed these two presentations you will find them to be helpful to you in your classroom and your daily activities on web surfing and making up your own quizzes.