Emerging Technologies

Google Jockeying
A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, Web sites, or resources mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic. The jockey's searches are displayed simultaneously with the presentation, helping to clarify the main topic and extend learning opportunities.

Showcasing Innovation in the Community College
Innovation Showcase features innovative community college programs, practices, facilities, and partnerships with community or business and industry. Innovation Showcase is a monthly digital publication, distributed electronically and posted on the League website, that includes one 1,500 to 2,000 word article along with two or three photographs illustrating the topic of the article. Author and photographer credits are published with the article.

Implementing Wireless PDA's in the IT Curriculum
This article briefly notes prevailing literature related to wireless technology use in the classroom (see the sidebar) and examines the processes and methods used to successfully integrate wireless personal digital assistant (PDA) networked technology into the IT curriculum at a public university.

Automated Classroom Lecture Recording
Duke University is developing DukeCapture, an automatic lecture recording service. It will allow instructors to easily record audio, video, and visuals from a lecture, knowing that the files will be available online shortly after class.

7 Things You Should Know About Clickers
Interaction and engagement are often limited by class size and human dynamics (a few students may dominate the conversation while most avoid interaction). Interaction and engagement, both important learning principles, can be facilitated with clickers. Clickers can also facilitate discipline-specific discussions, small work-group cooperation, and student-student interactions. Clickers—plus well-designed questions—provide an easy-to-implement mechanism for enhancing interaction.