1. Emerging Trends in Technology
Karen Brooks

2. Devices are getting Smaller, more Mobile and
are giving more people Access
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2010/11/15/learning-about-the-amazing-ios-square-credit-card-solution/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KeADv5Eqxg&featu

3. Tools for Productivity
http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html

4. Research
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/7-things-you-should-know-about-body-area-netw
• They’re investigating how small sensors carried by members of the
public, in items such as next generation smartphones, could
communicate with each other to create potentially vast body-to-body
networks (BBNs).
• The budding field of Body Area Networks gives new meaning to the term
“personal” in PCs. In a nutshell, the technology leverages wireless
communications protocols that allow for low-powered sensors to
communicate with one another and transmit data to a local base station
and to remote places like hospitals.
• For instance, small flat sensors placed on the skin, or even under it, could
be used to create a “medical” body area network that provides doctors
with real-time data about their patients’ bio-signs. Another key
application is short-range person-to-person communications that could
help protect front line soldiers in combat.
• This technology is still in its infancy stage.

5. Self-Driving Vehicles
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-car-video/
• Google announced The week of October
11th
, 2010 that
it has developed a car that can drive itself. A
small fleet of the vehicles has logged more
than 1,000 miles of entirely automated
driving and 140,000 miles of driving with
only occasional human intervention.
• It's a development of historic significance:
few events have changed the experience of
life on earth as much as last century's
proliferation of hundreds of millions of
automobiles. The automobile was a
revolution in personal autonomy, but it
came with great costs. Now we've entered
an era when that personal autonomy will
become automated and some of the
automobile's costs could be mitigated as a
result. It helpful to understand the
emergence of the fabled self-driving car as a
convergence of three trends: the Internet of
Things, Big Data and Real-Time Technology.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_self-driving_car_where_it

6. Digital Tattoo Interface
http://www.core77.com/competitions/greenergadgets/projects/4673/
• "A coin sized blood fuel cell in
the implant converts the
blood's glucose and oxygen
from the artery to the
electricity required to power
the device... It is always
present, always on, but out of
sight and non-obtrusive.“ It
lives inside your arm. (Talk
about being always
connected...)
• It can also double as a
monitor for health conditions
serving as a "check-engine
light" for humans.

7. 2011 Technology Trends
http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38293:gartner-identifies-201
• Technology trends for
2011 include:
– cloud computing,
– mobile applications,
– media tablets, and
– social communications
and collaboration.
• In terms of mobile applications and media tablets, Gartner
estimates that by the end of 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry
handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing an ideal
environment for the convergence of mobility and the Web.
• “Mobile devices are becoming computers in their own right, with
an astounding amount of processing ability and bandwidth,” says
Gartner. “There are already hundreds of thousands of applications
for platforms like the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market
(only for the one platform) and need for unique coding.”
• Social communications and collaboration also has a role to play,
according to Gartner analysts.
• The umbrella of social communications consists of social
networking, social networking analysis technologies – which
employ algorithms to understand and utilize human relationships
for the discovery of people and expertise, social collaboration such
as wikis, blogs, instant messaging, collaborative office, and crowd
sourcing, social publishing and social feedback.
• Gartner predicts that by 2016, social technologies will be integrated
with most business applications. Companies should bring together
their social customer relationship management, internal
communications and collaboration, and public social site initiatives
into a coordinated strategy.

8. Technology and Resources
for the
Classroom

9. Big Book of Technology
http://www.bigdealbook.com/?THEBIGDEALBOOK=634250059935865965

10. November 15th
Newsletter
http://www.bigdealbook.com/show_newsletter.aspx?id=450

11. 2011 Must Know Technologies
• Presentation Tool
– http://prezi.com/
– Tutorial -
http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks/prezi-tutorial-2010
• Social Bookmarking –
– http://www.delicious.com
– http://www.diigo.com
– Tutorial -
http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks/d
elicious-vs-diigo
• Collaboration Tools
– http://www.zoho.com
– Tutorial –
– http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks/in
troduction-to-zoho
• Video on Demand
– http://www.learn360.com/index.aspx
– Tutorial –
– http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks/lea
rn360
• UDL Tools
– http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/
• Social Media - Twiducate
– http://twiducate.com/
• Copyright, Creative
Commons and Fair Use
– Tutorial –
– http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks/c
opyright-creative-commons-and-the-
classroom

12. More Web2.0
Google Public Data Explorer
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

13. Final Version of US Tech Plan
Released November 2010
http://www.edweek.org/media/netp2010.pdf
http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/netp2010.pdf