Emerging Technologies Consulting

There are so many social software applications out there, it’s almost impossible to keep up.  Even me, social software guru that I call myself, have trouble keeping up with what’s out there.  Worse, it’s hard to tell what will be useful, what will stick around for the long haul, and especially, what might be effectively leveraged for either teaching or research.  Many of these applications are built not with education but business in mind.  So, I’m officially challenging myself to try out as many applications as possible and review them here.  I’m going to start with Emily Chang’s list at Ehub, which is huge.  There are, I believe, over 2000 items on that list.  Let’s see, 3 months of summer, that’s roughly 90 days, um, yeah, not going to get through them all.  I’m counting on a few being gone, a few being obviously not useful, too cumbersome to get going with, etc.  If there’s something you’ve been wanting to try, let me know, and I’ll try it out.  Or something you are using that you love and I’m not using it, let me know that too and I’ll try it out myself.

All this testing is in an effort to build up a good toolbox for creating a personal learning network/environment and for helping faculty do so as well.  More on that soon!