The Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies for Learning (19 Jun 2012)

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:30:00 GMT

2012 Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies

Come to our annual update of the latest trends in

T & D Technology, Training and Collaboration

It's no secret that technology keeps moving faster and faster.

So, how do we project where it’s headed?

Mt. Diablo ASTD’s annual review and discussion of the NMC Horizon Report. The latest overview continues our annual

tradition with a twist: New Media Consortium Director of Communications Samantha Adams from New Orleans, Louisiana will be using a free social media tool to deliver her report summary online. Horizon Report Advisory Board member Paul Signorelli will be onsite to discuss how Advisory Board members around the world use a well-facilitated wiki as the tool that helps shape the annual report.

Tech tools we will review:

Game-based learning
Gesture-based computing
Mobile apps
Tablet computing
Learning analytics
The Internet of Things

Samantha and Paul will continue Mt. Diablo’s tradition of playfully incorporating innovations in technology and presentation tools into engaging learning opportunities that we can immediately incorporate into our own workplace learning and performance endeavors. We hope you’ll join us for this thought-provoking evening.

Interactive learning objectives include:

Becoming familiar with six technologies that are changing the face of training-teaching-learning worldwide.
Understanding how a well-facilitated wiki can be a learning tool as well as a collaborative tool that produces learning objects as well as reports that serve audiences worldwide.
Exploring how a free online social media tool can be used in a training-teaching-learning environment.

The 2012 Horizon Report is freely and openly distributed under creative commons, and is available online in PDF, web, and ePub formats at http://horizon.nmc.org.

Presenters: Samantha Adams, the New Media Consortium (NMC) Director of Communications, is the lead writer and researcher for the NMC Horizon Report series and works on a number of other NMC publications. Additionally, she manages the community and content on NMC's social media platforms.

Samantha is involved in many other NMC projects, including the HP Catalyst Initiative and Challenge Based Learning. Samantha enjoys exploring new communication and collaboration platforms and has a special interest in e-publishing. Before arriving at the NMC, she facilitated the digitization of books for e-platforms including the iPad and Kindle.

Paul Signorelli, ASTD National Advisors for Chapters (NAC) advisor for Mt. Diablo and other chapters in California and Hawaii, is a San Francisco-based writer, trainer, consultant, learning advocate, and presenter. He explores, uses, writes about, and helps others become familiar with e-learning, new tech tools, and social media tools to creatively facilitate positive change within organizations.

Paul serves on the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report Advisory Board; has helped hospice workers in California and Florida learn to use mobile devices for medical record-keeping; uses Skype, Twitter, Google+ Hangouts, and other social media tools for learning; and is available at paul@paulsignorelli.com.

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The Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies for Learning (19 Jun 2012)