Educause has a series that highlights specific current technologies and boils them down into a mini-sheet that tech coordinators and advocates can use on their own campus. Unlike some of the Educause resources which require membership, this series is open to the general public which means that K-12 folks can access them as well. New brief sheets have followed a monthly publishing schedule with the latest being the Twitter brief posted just this month.

The series can be found here, but the individual links of papers (in PDF format) posted as of 19 July 2007 are listed below. I find looking at the timeline of releases interesting from an anthropological perspective as it illustrates where the edtech interest was focused over the past two years that these briefs have been published.

7 Things You Should Know About:

• Skype (December 2007)
• Citizen Journalism (November 2007)
• Data Visualization (October 2007)
• Haptics (September 2007)
• Cyber-Infrastructure (August 2007)
• Twitter (July 2007)
  
• Wikipedia (June 2007)
• Facebook II (May 2007)
• RSS (April 2007)
• Creative Commons (March 2007)
• Open Journaling (February 2007)
• Digital Storytelling (January 2007)
• E-Books (November 2006)
• Google Earth (October 2006)
• YouTube (September 2006)
• Facebook I (August 2006)
• Mapping Mashups (July 2006)
• Virtual Worlds (June 2006)
• Google Jockeying (May 2006)
• Remote Instrumentation (April 2006)
• Screencasting (March 2006)
• Virtual Meetings (February 2006)
• Grid Computing (January 2006)
• Collaborative Editing (December 2005)
• Instant Messaging (November 2005)
• Augmented Reality (September 2005)
• Blogs (August 2005)
• Video Blogging (August 2005)
• Wikis (July 2005)
• Podcasting (June 2005)
• Clickers (May 2005)
• Social Bookmarking (May 2005)

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