Ed Tech Crew 111 - Tech Trends for 2010

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Podcast number 111 - December 16th 2009

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End of year wrap up ....

Best tech moment?
Tony - The development of the e-book reader. Release of Windows 7 - where Microsoft should be.

Darrel - HTML 5. Great mobile devices - iphones, ipod touch, up and coming Android handsets.

Worst tech moment?
Tony - No camera in the iPod Touch

Darrel - No ZFS in the Mac OS X. Terrible 3g data plans.

Two best websites?
Tony - too may to name!

Darrel - http://etherpad.com & http://www.diigo.com/education & Google docs (especially forms for collecting information)

Gadget/tech for Christmas
Tony - Wacom - Bamboo touch. Would like a Kindle - but will not have one.

Darrel - Android - Motorola Droid phone in Australia. Some sort of PVR - tivo, networked hard drive or build my own with XMBC.

Looking forward ....

Trends for 2010 - what do you think will be the big developments in 2010
e-books - greater application!
netbooks roll on.
Small laptops, much more technology rich classrooms.
Many schools exploring other devices ipods, phones, DS's, kudo for xboxes, etc
Tablet Mac ?!?! Will this rumour ever end?
Schools having to deal with personal technology products in schools - issues associated with these devices http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/phone-camera-rules-needed-to-protect-teachers-20091128-jxvz.html
Also the ability to more personalise the learning and match with students a vast range of resources to suit their needs.
More data applications - more web services and cloud computing
Cisco - going from internet plumber to social facilitator
Video/web conferencing