This document summarizes the key findings from the 2009 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in education over the next 1-5 years. It identifies 6 trends - Mobiles, Cloud Computing, Geo-Everything, Personal Web, Semantic-Aware Applications, and Smart Objects. For each trend, the predicted time of adoption and examples are provided. The document also lists various productivity tools and social networks and recommends a URL for the "Best of the Web" sites.

1. Online Research What’s on the Horizon

3. Cloud Computing

4. Geo-Everything

5. Personal Web

6. Semantic-Aware Applications

7. Smart ObjectsBest of the Web Productivity Tools

8. Horizon Report Part One:

9. About the Horizon Report Due to impact Educational institutions between 1-5 years Explanation of each trend with sample web site http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki

10. Mobiles Adoption time: 1 year or less Example: iPhone

11. Examples of Mobile TinEye Music Shazam MobileEDU QuickGraph SpaceTime 3.0

12. Cloud Computing Adoption time: 1 year or less Example: Gmail (Maret)

13. Examples of Cloud Computing Google Apps Flickr Earth Browser Interactive

14. Geo Everything Adoption time: 1 year or less Example: Drop.io/dropiolocation

15. Examples of Geo-Everything World Mapper GoogleLitTrips Drop.io Location

16. Personal Web Adoption Time 2-3 years (or less?) Example: delicious.com

17. Examples of Personal Web Delicious Smart History About Lib300

18. Semantic-Aware Applications Adoption time: 4-5 years Example: SearchMonkey

19. Examples of Semantic-Aware Apps Twine True Knowledge Hakia Worldmapper

20. Smart Objects Adoption time: 4-5 years Example: RFID smart tags

21. Examples of Smart Objects ThinkeringSpace Touchatag and Violets mirror iPhone in Education

22. Productivity Tools Part Two:

23. Notetaking Noodle Tools Evernote Others Zotero Google Docs Ubernote Yojimbo (Mac)

24. Tasks/To Do Lists Remember the Milk Others Outlook Tasks Todoist

25. Social Bookmarking/Tagging Delicious Others Diigo Firefox Bookmarks

26. Homepage/News/RSS Google Reader Others Netvibes Google News iGoogle

27. Browsers Firefox Others Internet Explorer Safari Google Chrome

28. File-Sharing Dropbox Dropio

29. Other Social Networks Goodbooks Shelfari Library Thing Ning Friend Feed Twitter

30. Best of the Web Part Two

31. Selected Web sites For a list of recommended websites, go to: http://delicious.com/ncs.library/bestofweb2009