The 2009 Horizon Report was released on January 20, 2009 at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.  The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the ELI, highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This collaborative effort between the NMC and the ELI identifies emerging technologies which will have an impact higher education over the next few years.

Not only does the Horizon Report overview the key technologies to come, it also provides examples and suggested readings for each technology.

Here are the latest & greatest emerging technologies included in the 2009 edition:

• Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices)
• Cloud Computing
• Geo-Everything (i.e., geo-tagging)
• The Personal Web
• Semantic-Aware Applications
• Smart Objects

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http://nacadawebcast.wetpaint.com/

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Are you using Delicious? It’s okay if you aren’t, but let me explain why you should

What is Delicious?

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

Instead of bookmarking web addresses solely on your computer, now you can bookmark them using Delicious and access them on any computer that is connected to the Internet. I’ve found that I regularly use Delicious as a replacement to my cluttered and oft-forgotten Firefox bookmarks.

I’ll be sharing my Delicious bookmarks of items that I want to share with the NACADA Tech attendees at: http://delicious.com/ericstoller/nacada-tech
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Karen recently posted about Google maps and Google Earth over on her blog - Thurmond’s Thoughts. The neat thing about Google Maps is that anyone can click on the “Link” option (it’s to the right of “Print” and “Send”) and copy code which can then be used to embed a map on a blog or website.

For example, check out this satellite view of Clearwater, Florida:

View Larger Map

Early registration for the NACADA Technology Seminar is currently underway.

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Registration for the NACADA Technology Seminar, “Advising 2.0: Utilizing Technology Effectively for Campus-wide Advising” is underway! We are excited that so many of you will be able to join us in Clearwater Beach Florida February 12-13, 2009.

In order to help the faculty for the seminar better prepare for this hands on seminar, we will be sending you an online survey. Please take a few moments to fill out this survey. I did it myself this morning in about 5 minutes, so it won’t take up a lot of your time. But the information you will provide is extremely valuable to the faculty and seminar planners.

Look forward to seeing you in Florida in February…oh, doesn’t that sound wonderful?

Karen

What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Tags: microblogs, Twitter, Web 2.0

Practice is a big part of learning, so we will give you a chance to really practice. This site (nacadatech.net) will be used as a “back channel” to the seminar. This means that we ALL will practice what we are learning by posting reflections, pictures, videos, comments here!  The back channel will constitute the seminar within the seminar. Don’t know how?  Get ready to learn!