Pioneering New Territories & Technologies

This session was dedicated to Howard Strauss, who was awarded posthumous Leadership award - he was a really good contributor to all sorts of things and particularly (for me) made a lot of sense in his writings about portals. The session was based upon a series of white papers that have been conflated into an Educause Review Article - if you want to have a look, I'd definitely recommend having a look, particularly anyone in AI:
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0659.asp
It covers the following - wireless, phones, cms (vle), vre, web 2.0

When the new technology rolls over you, if you are not part of the steamroller - you are part of the road.

Scary fact, this years new students are the first group to never know a time when wireless enabled mobile phones and wireless services did not exist.

For $10 per month, take photo of food with phone, send to MyFoodService.com and get a report back detailing calorie intake and suggested changes to youd diet - not exactly what Alexander Graham Bell had in mind, or did he?! Phones are used to surf web, watch TV, as "clickers", games, pictures, music, IM, GP etc. Also you can now get MySpace to your phone.

Web2.0 - office alternatives, web desktop, social hangout, shared content depositories, VOIP, email, mapping
Recently an article was written by someone who spent all week just using Web2.0 technologies (Caught up in browser-based desktop)
suggest that vre could be effectively represented as a vortal for uploading collaborative research activities and recording research info and admin

Speed of access - there is already development that enables someone to use a mobile phone wireless service, high bandwidth, whilst travelling on a train going 75mph - question is - can we get a train to go at 75mph.....