Daily Internship Log: 5/28/2009

Articles Read:

• 2009 Horizon Report - http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/
• Whither Twitter? - http://www.ccweek.com/news/templates/template.aspx?articleid=1091&zoneid=7
• Time to leave the laptop behind - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122477763884262815.html
• Voice in Google Mobile App - http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/voice-in-google-mobile-app-tipping-point.html
• The Cloudworker's Creed - http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/10/23/the-cloudworkers-creed/
• see Daily Links post for other articles that I scanned will come back to for future reference on each technology
  

Technologies/Trends that deem further reading:

• Mobiles
• Cloud Computing (Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google - need to check this book out again - from what I read of the book it connects how power/electricity became a commodity the internet is following the same path)
• Geo-coding
• Personal Web
• Semantic aware applications
  
• Smart Objects
• Game-based coursework
• "Smart" classrooms
• Classroom response devices like Clickers or mobile phones
  
• Green Data Centers
• Course/Learning Management Systems (CMS/LMS)
  
• Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
• Campus Alert systems
• Social Media in Learning, Student Support, and Recruitment/Enrollment Management
• Twitter
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Linked in
  
• YouTube
  
• Netbooks vs Mobile phones vs laptops
• Open Courseware, Open Source Software, etc...
  

Wow the articles I read get me really excited about these two technologies/trends - mostly focused on mobile and cloud computing. And from what I read today I think these two really are merging very quickly. The future of cloud computing looks like we will have powerful applications that we will be able to access anywhere we have an internet connection. As mobile devices get closer to the "real" web (being able to display a web page like it is displayed on a desktop/laptop); will we be able to access these same apps from our mobile devices?

This is more likely than not - look at the netbooks that are coming out recently by the major computer producers. One comment made in an article I read said that laptops are getting smaller and mobile devices are getting larger which eventually we will find a happy medium [paraphrased - exact quote is in the leave your laptop article]. Once these devices [possible term internet appliance or cloud appliance] become main stream will the internet become a commodity like electric, gas, garbage collection accessible from any where? Nicholas Carr's book The Big Switch says so!

The Cloudworker article I triggered a thought: are we moving towards the cloudlearner? Will all students become "online" learners that connect to the university cloud and literally learn any where, any time, any place, and possibly any pace [heard this at a conference somewhere and of course from O'banions learning college]?

Where are these technologies going to take us - only the future knows!