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[|Alan Levine] //What's on the Australian Horizon for Emerging Technologies?// Summary of the results and process to create the [|NMC Horizon Report] and a preview of the soon to be released [|Horizon.au Report].


 * Presentation Materials:**
 * HorizonThis! Take our emerging tech survey before the session http://tinyurl.com/horizonthis
 * Presentation Resources http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/Horizon+Mobilizethis
 * [|Vuvox Presentation on the Horizon Project]
 * What's On Your Technology Horizon? (links from above presentation)

Alan Levine is Vice President, NMC Community and Chief Technology Officer for the [|New Media Consortium (NMC)], an international consortium of more than [|280 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies] dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression. He is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web going back to 1993. An early proponent of weblogs for information sharing, he shares his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog ([|cogdogblog.com]).
 * About Me**

In his current post with the NMC, Alan has infused the organization with applications of web 2.0 tools, including a new NMC web site as an online community featuring rich media, user-generated content, folksonomy tools, and social presence. He has established web sites for the NMC Campus Observer (Second Life activities at [|sl.nmc.org]) and the NMC Virtual Worlds initiative ([|virtualworlds.nmc.org]) running on open source blog software and created new wiki sites to support the NMC Horizon project activities and a hub for Second Life resources.

Before joining the NMC, Alan served 14 years as Instructional Technologist at the [|Maricopa Community Colleges] in Phoenix, Arizona where he was actively engaged in research and development of learning technologies. Alan was a key contributor to significant efforts such as [|Ocotillo], a faculty-led initiative that promotes innovation and drives change, created the [|Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)], a virtual warehouse of innovation that pioneered the use of RSS in syndicating learning object content, and developed [|Feed2JS], an open source software shared for allowing people to easily incorporate RSS content into web pages.

Alan has many connections from visits and collaborations with Australian educators- from [|a 2000 sabbatical tour], [|an invited workshop for the induction of the 2001 Flexible Learning Leaders], to a [|Flexible Learning Framework national speaking tour] of every capital city in 2007, and many online interactions in between.

The New Media Consortium's annual report on emerging technology for higher education, the Horizon Report, is now in its six year. It is result of a research project that identifies and describes six emerging technologies that will be have considerable use in teaching, learning & creative expression in three time horizons.
 * Presenter Registration || #**31** ||
 * ~ Name * || Alan Levine  ||
 * ~ Email * || alan@nmc.org ||
 * ~ Name of Presentation * || What's on the Australian Technology Horizon ||
 * ~ Presentation Description * ||

In July 2008, the NMC launched the first regional version of the project, drawing a group of educators together in Melbourne to start the process to produce a Horizon.au Report, due out in November 2008, published under Creative Commons license.

This presentation will share the final six Australia technology horizons and open discussion of whether they fit for this audience. We are seeking some examples to publish in the report, so there is an opportunity to contribute to it and the project's dynamic resource collection. ||
 * ~ Synchronous or Asynchronous Presentation * || [[image:http://wufoo.com/images/icons/checkmark.gif width="16" height="16"]] Synchronous ||
 * ~ Select a Day to Present * || Fri Oct 24 ||
 * ~ Select a time (note times are CST - Darwin Time - check the world clock (mobilizethis.wikispaces.com - Agenda) to be certain of timezones. * || 1:30 pm ||
 * ~ Your Preferred Delivery Mechanism * || [[image:http://wufoo.com/images/icons/checkmark.gif width="16" height="16"]] CDU's Wimba Live Classroom ||
 * ~ Web Site / URL to Your Presentation || http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/Horizon+Mobilizethis ||
 * ~ Additional Presenters / Comments ||