"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I am not at the Educause Learning Initiative 2014 conference this year, but I always look forward to the New Media Consortium‘s annual Horizon Report, in which a team of colleagues from around the world attempt to forecast six key trends, six significant challenges, and six emerging technologies that will impact teaching and learning in… Read more On the Horizon
Muhammad Saleem sent this cool infographic based on the New Media Consortium’s 12 emerging technologies to watch.
Next week, I am doing a workshop on “How Not To Kill with Powerpoint” at VCU. In this workshop, I draw heavily from Garr Reynolds‘ Presentation Zen, which is now out in its second edition. So I found this recent Slideshare preso from Rashmi Sinha to be interesting: SlideShare Zeitgeist 2011 View more presentations from… Read more Powerpoint as Default
At the recent NMC Retreat, the hashtag #NMChz had 998 tweets over the three days (at least that I could capture with Archivist). I copied the text of the tweets, removed NMChz and RT as two obvious repetitious terms, and then dumped what was left in Wordle. Interesting results: Click on the image above to… Read more A Thousand Tweets
Day Two at the NMC Future of Education Retreat was just as amazing as the first night, if not more so. Take one hundred colleagues from higher education, K12, museums, and corporate technology companies and have them think out loud for a day…that was the process at this retreat. Just look at the sticky notes… Read more Day Two at NMC Retreat