Horizon Report 2007. Review your familiarity and current practices against the key emerging technologies highlighted in this report.

1. User-created content (blogs, photostreams, wikibooks, machinima clips)

Prior to this subject, I had little experience with user-created content apart from Wikipedia and YouTube and have had no experience in integrating them as part of an educational process.

2. Social networking (the reason students log on – may represent a way to increase student participation) Continue reading →

Horizon Report 2008. Review your familiarity and current practices against the key emerging technologies highlighted in this report.

1. Grassroots video

This is one I have been spending a lot of time on lately. On one of my sites I have lots of video clips and I have been constantly exploring different formats and ways of encoding the file to see what gives me the best results. At the moment I am evaluating a number of streaming video services. My biggest issue with video is that there seems to be no standards yet and so there are infinite ways you can put video on the web but no best practice. In fact, I’d love to be able to film some of you tomorrow at the block doing a 20second clip on topics like how you study and learn or how you manage time etc. Continue reading →