that teachers should know about….

Internet based computing Virtual meetings Webinars Skype-teleconferencing Freeware—Open Office Slide share, Slide rocket, Prezi--

presentations Google docs—online storage Moodle

SHARE Sites

SHARE Pix SHARE ideas

Share Video

Delicious Flickr Wiki spaces Zamzar

Digg picasa Blogs Ustream

evernote shutterfly etherpad Jing

stumbleupon Photosynth Twitter Teacher tube

Newsvine wordle scribd Mathtrain.tv

Nings photobooth scribblar Download helper

Google Goggles Google Picassa QR Codes Mobile Tagging

We'll walk past any building, hold up our mobile device, and know at a glance who is in there, what their phone numbers are, and what each person does. And then it'll show the nearest coffee shop, and the way to the subway.

Vscan Stress watch Innovations that help

people with disabilities DNA sequencing devices-

Applications made possible by putting genetic code onto discs. Imagine taking your DNA sequence on a chip to the supermarket and having it tell you what foods you should be eating.

Meta databases (open and online) Data.gov -Governments and

institutions putting their data online, making it accessible and useful

Linked data Shared scientific and innovative

data to solve problems Crowdsourcing—

polleverywhere.com Google Squared; Google flu trends Semantic Web Microsoft Pivot

Smartphones and Mobile devices have built in camera, gps, projectors, finger-print sensors, & computer features

Eye-controlled phone and MP3 players

Mobile Applications (APPS) Mobile Payments (SQUARE) Google Nexus One LD Expo

Water energy solutions Solar energy solutions & products Wind energy solution Natural Gas products Cold fusion

Twitter (Twitter Widgets, Twitpic)◦ 75 million users in January

FaceBook=400 million users◦ Fastest growing pop. 55+◦ Average 7 hrs. per month

Social Gaming Second Life Virtual currency Linked in, Google Buzz The collision of our online and

offline identities and the concept of an open universal identity.

E-books Tablets Netbooks Lenovo (CES debut) MIT Siftables intuitive part of our

daily lives

Movies, Television, Video Television APPS Hulu, Epix, Boxee, AppleTV,

Netflix, Rokubox Flip Cameras-personal

video/editing YouTube 42% of Americans now

watch television shows online. On average, Americans watched 31 hours and 19 minutes of traditional television each week during the third quarter of 2009.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find

themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. --Eric Hoffer