Category Archives: tools & technical

Horizon Report background resources

The 2009 Horizon Report has been released and is available on the web.  //horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_PageA recent blog post from the NMC gives some interesting background on the creation of the report, highlighting wiki links of particular interest to those interested in educational technology.   The initial list of 80-100 technologies makes for interesting reading … too many other interesting links to highlight individually; the post warrants some detailed exploration.

There’s now a podcast version of the ELI09 session during which the 2009 report was officially released.  And the Horizon Metatrends Vuvox collage that Larry Johnson showed during the session (a good example for anyone who is interested in some alternatives to PowerPoint).

brain on steroids

During my recent visits to DPMI I found an opportunity to get in some hands-on practice using CMAP as a right brain friendly mapping tool. I had initially seen CMAP in a Spring 2008 TLC session by Beryl Levinger on High Performance Thinking (see podcast on the Teaching & Learning Collaborative page of the Institute’s ITunesU site), but then hadn’t followed up.

At one point during week one of DPMI, Beryl described CMAP (and other mapping tools) as something she reaches for when she wants to put her brain on steroids. So far I’m sold …

Here are two examples: our first draft on “metacognition”, and v2 with further additions. More to come …

Meanwhile, I’m looking for more CMAP (or other mapping) examples — even better, descriptions of the roles that such tools have played in the promotion of high performance thinking. Any thoughts? Please share in the comments.