Thursday, July 29, 2010

I was reading this article at PRleap.com and thought that many of the ideas proposed by the sight were very entertaining. The fourth prediction by futurists made way back in 2006 was:


Schools based on classrooms and a human teacher will dwindle over the next 25 years. Why sit in a classroom when you can visit virtual worlds and experience your subjects? An avatar, a personalized interactive guide, will answer all of your questions and help you pose new ones.

http://www.prleap.com/pr/60394/

This idea was novel almost six years ago, but it seems to be holding true from my point of view. I know I was taking a few online courses back then, but it really hadn’t become main stream as it is today. I believe it was just the other day when I heard an advertisement on the radio, here in Colorado Springs, that the state is sponsoring an e-class for high schools! That would have been unthinkable a few years back.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Web 2.0 Tools:

Zoho Chat is a great collaboration tool! This cool web tool lets you form group chats using your IM friends from many popular networks. (I.E. Google, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, & Jabber etc…) Like many online collaboration tools there is the option to chat live and share your desktop, but you also have the functionality to create calendar events.


However, my favorite thing about this web tool was the extremely quick setup. The website asked me four questions: 1 Username, 2. Email, 3. Password, 4. Confirm Password. That’s it! As soon as I entered that information I was into the program and ready to rock and roll.

http://zohochat.com/

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Future (Horizon Report 2010)

I thought it was interesting to read the 2010 Horizon report. Apparently I'm not the only person in a higher education program that thinks that scholarly authoring, publishing and researching is behind the times. The Horizon report points out an interesting fact about how the new forms of publication (forms, blogs, and reader rating systems) have no official place in 'scholarly research. Someone please push the academic community into the 21st century!

As for the technology to watch, in the Horizon report the first thing they cite is Mobile computing. I couldn't agree more. It seems that these days I can forget my huge desk top (with exception of the occasional game) and do everything from my phone. I love it, and the public wants more of it. Heck, I authored this post from my Android. (Android is my personal favorite OS for the future of light weight operating systems.) Three cheers for open source technology taking control of the market place!

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Augmented-reality Maps: Ted.com

Augmented-reality maps:
“Hyper Local Blogs” enter the quadrants for the entry of a blog entry to the blog.

The live broadcast of people in the market place work seamlessly into the map as on line users view from the mapping software. (Around minute 6)

This is an amazing 8 minute video detailing the resources that will be available to us shortly! Check it out.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

First Post.....

This is just getting started, but look forward to great things in the future. I'm interested in internet security, and fuzzy logic. This first post if for credit in CS855 of my doctoral program.