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Daniel S. Christian

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Recommended sites from the T&L Digital Studio

Key areas to watch

• The forthcoming Walmart of Education
  
  
• Developing learning ecosystems
  
  
• Rising student expectations & power
  
  
• Keeping students engaged & motivated
  
  
• The move towards using more teams of specialists to create educational content
  
  
• Learning Agents, 1:1 computing, PLE's, EPT's
  
  
• Building your global network
  
  
• Mobile learning
  
  
• Global learning
  
  
• Lifelong learning
  
  
• Participatory learning; students more in control of their learning
  
  
• Digital storytelling
  
  
• Cloud computing / software as a service
  
  
• The extent to which Google's applications and offerings will make their way into the classroom
  
  
• The all-encompassing communications & computing device; convergence
  
  
• Open/collaborative teaching & learning
  
  
• The move towards developing consortiums & pooling resources
  
  
• Nanotechnology
  
  
• Cross-disciplinary assignments & learning
  
  
• Multimedia -- providing students with the same content but in 4-5 different ways; let them select what works for them
  
  
• Educational gaming
  
  
• Social networking/ learning/Web 2.0-related items; including the growth of blogs, wikis, Twitter, other
  
  
• Multi-touch interfaces especially within Smart Classrooms
  
  
• Virtual worlds / 3D
  
  
• The semantic, real-time web
  
  
• The developing WebOS
  
  
• Legislation requiring students take at least one 100%-online class to graduate (first from high school, then from college)
  
  
• The move towards Voice-Over-IP (VOIP)-based applications & services, often bundled in with technologies such as instant messaging, presence, desktop sharing, whiteboarding, and audio/video conferencing
  
  
• Whether Learning / Course Management Systems continue to be integral or not
  
  
• Whether Moodle and other open-source systems will continue to gain market share
  
  
• Whether accreditation will be relevant in the future and/or if the accreditation bodies have to change significantly
  
  

Christian-based items

• Biblegateway.com
• GospelCom.net
• Leadership Network
• Minds in the Making
• 100 Most Bookmark-Worthy Websites for Christians

Training resources

• Lynda.com
• Adobe's Video Workshop
• Atomic Learning