The Horizon VCOP is pleased to host Dr. Raymond Yee from UC Berkeley in the next synchronous event. Join us as Dr. Yee demonstrates The Scholar's Box and remix culture. The Scholar's Box is a tool that gives users gather/create/share functionality, enabling them to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research.

Format: Presentation with Q&A.

When: Thursday Dec 1 noon EST [For your time zone, please see: [
http://tinyurl.com/amzul]

Duration: 1 hour

The Narrowcasting presentation on Sept 8th attracted a handful of enthusiastic, thoughtful participants who debated the inherent problems associated with 'Even More Information" to contend with in the age of podcasts and videoblogs. Will practices like 'tagging' coupled with improved searches and the explicit trust relationships emerging in social sofware applications help us cope with the mountains of data we sort through on a daily basis?
Check out the archive of the session (conducted in Breeze Live) and the session description (just below ;-)).

Technorati Tags: emergingtech, folksonomy, horizonvcop, narrowcasting, tagging, videoblogging

NarrowCasting 101: Using Blogs, Podcasts and Videoblogs in Higher Education

Presenter: Cyprien Lomas, UBC and Nick Noakes, HKUST

The practices involved in "narrowcasting," including Web logs(blogs), podcasts, and videoblogs, have become significant elementsof the new Web. These practices are emerging on our universities andschools, employing RSS feeds and aggregators to distributeincreasingly rich "amateur" content.

Join Cyprien Lomas and Nick Noakes to explore the vibrant and rapidlyevolving world of narrowcasting and the impact it can have onteaching and learning. They will explore several facets ofnarrowcasting and the new Web, including:
*       What is narrowcasting? Where did it come from and where is itgoing?
*       How might narrowcasting fit into a campus e-portfolio orcontent management system?
*       What are the implications of having increasingly media-rich(and resource-intensive) content on campus?
*       How can we filter and focus all of this new content?
[Please note: This will be very similar to the Educause eLive event we ran in Jul]

Technorati Tags: blogs, delicious, flickr, folksonomy, horizonvcop, narrowcasting, tagging, videoblogging

Our next Horizon VCOP meeting will be a presentation on Wed Jul 27 at noon EDT. Details below:

Title: Avoiding Self-Delusion: New Technologies and Expectation Effects
Presenter: Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph.D., President, Hippasus

One fine day you come into your office, and find everyone singing the praises of a new technology for the classroom - or perhaps complaining bitterly about it. The question in your mind is, though, is it solely the technology's pedagogical merits that are causing these reactions, or are there other factors at work? For instance, could novelty and the expectations that surround it be causing the observed results? Join us as we discuss how expectation effects can confound the evaluation of new classroom practices, how to improve your evaluation methods so as to clear away this fog, and how to apply this methodology to the upcoming technologies discussed in the Horizon Report.

When: Wed Jul 27 noon EDT [For your time zone: http://tinyurl.com/8qpwy ]

Where: iCohere Horizon web space [ http://www.conferences.iCohere.com/horizon ] and phone conference. If you want to invite colleagues to come along and they aren't members, please do. They can use the guest login to Horizon [user id = Horizon, password = guest] and we can fix them up with a permanent login after the meeting.

Horizon VCOP Team
http://www.horizonvcop.org/

Please join your fellow members in the Horizon Project Virtual Community of Practice on Monday April 11, 2005 at 5pm PST. (http://tinyurl.com/4er7r) for an open house session.

Come to share, learn and connect through discussing our current practices, ideas and projects around technnologies in education - whether they be new/emerging technologies or new practices with existing technologies. We will also explore past presentations and existing online resources and start to plan future presentations.

So come and share your insights, projects and experiences! Afterwards, there will be optional tours of the virtual space to introduce new members to the many features of the Horizon Project VCOP.

This session kicks off our new schedule of biweekly synchronous sessions. Every second week we will alternate between a presentation on emerging practices associated with learning technologies and a general open discussion about the current state of affairs.

Future topics include: sakai, learning objects and pachyderm and forms of what has been termed narrowcasting such as podcasting, vodcasting and PSPcasting. Don't get put off by the the plethora of new terms .... these are all fun things! :-)

This session will be synchronous (online) in the iCohere environment http://www.conferences.icohere.com/horizon and on the phone bridge. Hope to see you there!

Please join us on Monday, Mar 28th at 5pm PST for our Expert Panel on Learning Objects. How far have we come in the last two years?  Come hear the opinions of three experts on the current state of affairs in the Learning Objects world.  Patricia McGee, Trevor Doerkson and Tim Wang have all used (and continue to use) Learning Objects over the last several years.  Have Learning Objects lived up to the hype?  Are they still important?  Please bring your questions, comments and opinions to the latest Horizon VCOP event.

This session will take place synchronously in the Horizon project VCOP space (in iCohere) and simultaneously in the phone conference room at 5pm PST on Monday Mar 28th, 2005.  (contact us for an ID or more details - horizon@educause.edu).

Please join us and tell your colleagues about this session!

We are pleased to announce our next event in the Horizon Project VCOP speaker series.

On Monday, Mar 14th at 5pm PST, Rachel Smith from the NMC will give an overview of the 2005 Horizon Report. Jointly sponsored by the NMC and NLII, the 2005 Horizon report identifies six technologies (and techniques) likely to impact higher education with a one, three and five year horizon.

Come hear how the six technologies were chosen and the implications for your institution. Bring your questions!

Join us on Monday March 14th, 2005 at 5pm PST. Our session will take place online (in the iCohere Horizon Project VCOP space) and concurrently on the phone bridge. You will need to create a Username/Password to access the Horizon VCOP iCohere site. If you have used iCohere before and wish to use the same ID, please send me a note. (clomas(at)educause.edu)

Several people have asked me how I constructed the visualizations that I used in my talk on del.icio.us. My own approach involved a fair amount of hand-rolled custom code - not fun for people unaccustomed to writing their own software and working from the command line. So as to give non-programming-savvy researchers a chance to explore del.icio.us - or other online systems with implicit network structures - for themselves, I have put together a short guide on using two Mac OS X applications, Anthracite and OmniGraffle, for this purpose.

Comments and suggestions are welcome, either here or on my weblog.