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[edit] Web-TNG in Context

George Brett (Internet2)

"The Next Generation of the Web will be different, yet at the same time it will be more of the same." This presentation will provide context for that statement. In the 1980's university faculty were mandated to develop Computer Assisted Instruction with microcomputers when general purpose tools (Wordstar, Multiplan, dBaseII) may have been more appropriate. Later in that decade came HyperCard and ToolBook which introduced educators to hypermedia. Meanwhile, faculty were exploring online bulletin board systems and collaboration with electronic mail lists. In the 1990's, WAIS, Archie, and Gopher emerged to simplify our network access to libraries and information resources. Soon, these tools were sidelined by the World Wide Web. Today we have Social Media of all sorts in text, audio, video, and 3-D formats. It's always a challenge to say where technology for research and education will go next--but I will take that challenge by observing that technology in the future may seem to be different, but it will still fall into the same categories of use and intent that it has for the past twenty years.

I will briefly explore that idea of continuation and change, examining these six functional categories:

  • General Purpose Tools - build better tool kits
  • Bridging the Gap - new media, but is message still the same?
  • Formal versus Informal - when do marginal notes become research?
  • One Room Schoolhouse - a model for collaboration and learning
  • Story Telling - adding context to content
  • The Viral Thing - value of the "word of mouth"

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Misc Info:

[edit] Resources recommended by me for reasons based on lateral thinking

Books

  • Early Hypertext 1989 - Robert Horn
    • Robert's books are an amazing resource for shifting one's perspective on information. His hyertext book explores "chunking information" and is amazingly on target about the web even though written before the World Wide Web was around.
    • Mapping Hypertext: The Analysis, Organization, and Display of Knowledge for the Next Generation of On-Line Text and Graphics
    • Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century
  • Cyberspace: First Steps - M. Benedikt
    • Some friends feel this is not up to par. I think that it is a useful source of thinking of the etheral cyber / mental space in physical, architectural, directional terms.
    • Amazon
  • The Social Life of Information - J.Seely Brown
  • The Hidden Power of Social Networks - Cross & parker
  • The Tipping Point - Gladwell
  • Wikinomics - Tapscott & Williams
  • Everything is Miscellaneous - Weinberger
  • Out of Control - Kevin Kelly
    • It's about self organizing systems. Published in 1995 - but still relevant
    • Amazon
  • New Rules for a New Economy - Kevin Kelly
  • Contextual Design: designing customer-centered systems -Beyer, Holtzblatt
  • Computers as Theater - B.Laurel
  • When Old Technologies were new - C. Marvin
    • Farmers placing seed orders by cramming paper notes into telephone cones way back when. So, what are we doing wrong with tech now?
    • Amazon
    • Google Search
  • Computer Mediated Communications - M. Rappaport
    • An early survey of computers and computing. Context & History.
    • Amazon
  • The Cluetrain Manifesto - Levine, Locke, Searls, Weinberger
  • Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
    • Stop and think -- I challenge you to engage Wabi-Sabi for your blogging.
    • Amazon
    • Design philosophy
      • "Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature."
  • Timeless Way of Building - C.Alexander
    • Core principles from the physical world of architecture to apply to the virtual worlds of portals, cms's, blogs and of course Second Life.
    • Amazon
  • Pattern Language - C.Alexander
  • Everyday Matters -D. Gregory
    • Danny is an artist, journalist, blogger Amazon
    • Blog
  • Pedagogical Sketchbook - P.Klee
    • Klee's notebook's about design and art. A language for 2D space of design. Good food for thought.
    • Amazon
    • Google Search
  • The RSVP Cycles - L.Halprin
  • How to Make a Journal of Your Life - D.Price
    • Book about creating personal journal which could be applied to thinikng about one's blog.
    • Amazon
    • website
    • flickr

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