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The Sloan-C Emerging Technology Conference or "What I did on YOUR summer vacation!" by Clare Dygert

At the end of June, I was able to attend the Sloan Consortium conference on emerging technology held in beautiful San Francisco. It was a great conference, and I got a lot of really wonderful ideas from the speakers. This is the first in a series of reports on some of the more interesting tidbits I picked up there. I encourage you to explore the links I will post here!

My absolute favorite presentation was by Alexandra Pickett who is with the SUNY Learning Network. Alexandra teaches instructors how to successfully harness the power of very cool web 2.0 tools and she demonstrated a lot of these tools.

One tool that you should definitely take a look at is Delicious. Delicious is a "social bookmarking" tool. It allows you to leave virtual sticky notes on websites for people who are part of a list you create. So if, for example, you wanted students in one of your classes to go look at a particular web site and see your comments on the page (but only they could see your comment), you could do that using Delicious. I am hoping we will create a tutorial on Delicious and some other new tools this year.

Check These Out

The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning is a group of 80 education institutions working towards new designs in learning.

MIT OpenCourseWare is the web-based home of almost all of MIT's open course content.

Scribbles is "a drawing tool for everyone. Whether you want to sketch a cartoon, draw a birthday card or jot down some design ideas, Scribbles can help bring your imagination to life."$19.95 and for Macs.

Issuu encourages you to "explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best."

Wolfram|Alpha "is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer."

THE Journal - Transforming Education Through Technology

Slideshare where you can upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately.

Prezi is an interesting web tool for presentations. It could also be used for mind-mapping as well.