that teachers should know about….
Internet based computing Virtual meetings Webinars Skype-teleconferencing Freeware—Open Office Slide share, Slide rocket, Prezi--
presentations Google docs—online storage Moodle
SHARE Sites
SHARE Pix SHARE ideas
Share Video
Delicious Flickr Wiki spaces Zamzar
Digg picasa Blogs Ustream
evernote shutterfly etherpad Jing
stumbleupon Photosynth Twitter Teacher tube
Newsvine wordle scribd Mathtrain.tv
Nings photobooth scribblar Download helper
Google Goggles Google Picassa QR Codes Mobile Tagging
We'll walk past any building, hold up our mobile device, and know at a glance who is in there, what their phone numbers are, and what each person does. And then it'll show the nearest coffee shop, and the way to the subway.
Vscan Stress watch Innovations that help
people with disabilities DNA sequencing devices-
Applications made possible by putting genetic code onto discs. Imagine taking your DNA sequence on a chip to the supermarket and having it tell you what foods you should be eating.
Meta databases (open and online) Data.gov -Governments and
institutions putting their data online, making it accessible and useful
Linked data Shared scientific and innovative
data to solve problems Crowdsourcing—
polleverywhere.com Google Squared; Google flu trends Semantic Web Microsoft Pivot
Smartphones and Mobile devices have built in camera, gps, projectors, finger-print sensors, & computer features
Eye-controlled phone and MP3 players
Mobile Applications (APPS) Mobile Payments (SQUARE) Google Nexus One LD Expo
Water energy solutions Solar energy solutions & products Wind energy solution Natural Gas products Cold fusion
Twitter (Twitter Widgets, Twitpic)◦ 75 million users in January
FaceBook=400 million users◦ Fastest growing pop. 55+◦ Average 7 hrs. per month
Social Gaming Second Life Virtual currency Linked in, Google Buzz The collision of our online and
offline identities and the concept of an open universal identity.
E-books Tablets Netbooks Lenovo (CES debut) MIT Siftables intuitive part of our
daily lives
Movies, Television, Video Television APPS Hulu, Epix, Boxee, AppleTV,
Netflix, Rokubox Flip Cameras-personal
video/editing YouTube 42% of Americans now
watch television shows online. On average, Americans watched 31 hours and 19 minutes of traditional television each week during the third quarter of 2009.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. --Eric Hoffer