Lawrie Phipps' Presentation on Emerging Technologies

Last month (25.01.07) Lawrie Phipps from the JISC Users and Innovation Programme came to the SOLSTICE Centre at Edge Hill University to talk about Emerging Web Technologies.

The session was videoed and edited into the 11 sections below. They are currently available as streamed Windows Media (.wmv) files.

01. Introduction - (2:55)
Links:
O'Reilly: What is Web 2.0

02. The Web as a Platform - (2:16)
Links:
Google Docs

03. Participation - (3:25)
Links:
Wikipedia: Edge Hill University
Wikipedia: University of Plymouth

04. Social Networking - (5:38)
Links:
SurfBird.com
ELLG Spaces

05. Data Consumption - (3:23)
Links:
Skibonk.com
also see: Googlemapsmania blog

06. Are These Useful? - (3:28)

07. Real Students and Their Digital Experiences - (8:34)
Links:
Instant Messenger
YouTube
MySpace
Google Mail
Blogger
Skype
Zoomr
del.icio.us
Writeboard
Nuvvo

08. Encouraging the Use of Technologies - (1:59)

09. What Next? A Look at Second Life - (4:08)
Links:
Second Life
What is an Avatar?
Education space in Second Life

10. Assessing Risk - [2:23]
Links:
Yahoo Mail
Flickr

11. Google Homepages - [7:36]
Links:
Google Homepages


In the future I intend to write some posts expanding on some of these topics from our perspective.

Finally, this nicely crafted video from Kansas State University seems to have been linked to by everyone, and it gives an overview of what we have been looking at here, and how the Web is evolving.