How many of these emerging technologies do you know about??

I have to admit, I had only heard of 1 of them. This report in the Chronicle's "Wired Campus" highlights
" some of the buzzworthy tools, ideas, and trends at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive ...

• Big data and data visualization: Visual.ly, Splunk, Show
• Intimate social networking: Highlight, GroupMe, Wendr, GonnaBe, Banjo, Sonar
• Hacktivism: Code for America, hackathons, self-hacking
• Curation: Brain Pickings, Percolate, FeedMagnet
• Retro technology: analog tele-phonographer, Please Shoot Yourself, Motorblade
• 3D printing: MakerBot, RepRat
• Journalism and publishing: Storify (read previous ProfHacker posts), The Atavist, Rhizome, Wowio

Tips for improving student presentations

ProfHacker offers a simple set of guidelines in today's (4/20/11) post for avoiding DBP (death by powerpoint):
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/challenging-the-presentation-paradigm-with-the-115-rule/32691?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Start with the Pecha Kucha formula: maximum 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide
Spur creativity and mastery of the material by superimposing the 1:1:5 rule...

"In addition to the time constraint of the Pecha Kucha, your presentation must also follow the 1/1/5 rule. That is, you must have at least one image per slide, you can use each exact image only once, and you should add no more than five words per slide. "

Professor Sample says these guidelines have improved student presentations overall, although nothing is foolproof :-).

Collaborative editing

Some of you may already use Google Docs to collaborate on creating and editing presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc. Now you can do that without ever leaving your MS Office application. Google Cloud Connect lets you work in MS Office software and then share your edits to Google Docs. See this article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Or view the application site directly at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect