Horizon Report 2006: categories and examples
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Categories presented in the Horizon Report 2006
"Social computing is essentially the application of computer technology to facilitate collaboration and working in groups. The emphasis is on the social part of social computing: what makes this phenomenon interesting, and what is likely to make it long-lasting, is the way it facilitates an almost spontaneous development of communities of people who share similar interests."
- (this and examples below taken from Horizon Report 2006, p. 7-9)
- Virtual meetings
- Distance ed
- Conferences and forums
- Webinars
- Folksonomies
- In social networking: Flickr, Facebook, del.icio.us
- Could be applied to education by allowing "researchers to dynamically create coding and classification schema that reflect the collective wisdom of their community."
- Course-specific taxonomic languages
Examples of applications presented in the Horizon Report 2006
Collaborative Writing and Research
"Using blogs, wikis, or group writing tools, students and researchers can review, edit, and comment on each other’s work, create an archive of resources and reference materials, or write a collaborative document. Faculty in the Department of English at York University require students in a literary criticism course to keep a weekly blog journal—and to comment on the journals of their classmates."
Visual and Performing Arts
"Art history faculty at the State University of New York use Flickr’s notes and comments feature to have students analyze and comment on artworks. Students can select a portion of an image to attach a short comment to, and can also add longer comments beneath the image."
Business
"Students could work with counterparts in other countries to learn local business practices, conversational etiquette, and customs. Using groupware tools, they could develop collaborative 'business manuals' describing what they have learned."
Links from the Horizon Report 2006
- 43 Things: What are the top forty-three things you would like to accomplish? List and tag a goal, find out how many people share it, and get advice from people who have already done it, whatever it is.
- "Images of Africa": Swarthmore faculty posts the syllabus for his course on African art and culture, and receives comments and suggestions from his peers.
- Wikipedia: One of the best-known wikis, Wikipedia is an online editable encyclopedia.
- World Jam: For 72 hours, IBM employees all over the world participated in a community activity that let them find and connect with each other, synchronously and asynchronously, using a variety of social computing methods.
