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Greenbush Labs Technology Education and InovationGreenbush Labs Technology Education and InovationA technology in education blog exploring mobile media virtual environments Croquet Second Life and other emerging technologies Articles
The Future of Haptics on the Surface - and on the future classroom IWB
2008-04-27 21:28:00 Rumor: Apple to add tactile feedback to iPhone [story here] - And as I have blogged about over the past 6-7 months … haptics will eventually end up on the classroom IWB as well. Past posts on haptics: * Haptics on the direct manipulation & natural input surface (Nov. 9th 2007) * Interactive Surface s are to 3D spaces ... More About: Future , Main , The Future
GreenbushGrid Opensim/Realxtend + GreenbushTV = Immersive & Remote Staff &
2008-04-27 00:57:00 - The Future of our Immersive & Remote Staff & Professional Development GreenbushGrid Island continues to take shape …. getting the Realxtend server running (with HTML on a prim) and piping the GreenbushTV feed to a prim on our grid are the next steps. More About: Main
Virtual Worlds in the School & Classroom NAMTC conference Presentation
2008-04-25 20:32:00 This is the presentation to the NAMTC conference & covers the Edusim, GreenbushGrid, and Greenbush Secondlife Island Projects More About: School , Worlds , Virtual , Presentation , Conference
GreenbushTV - looking back
2008-04-24 06:17:00 Dug up the first GreenbushTV bumper video we created last June 7th 2007 More About: Main , Back , Looking Back
Moving objects from Secondlife to Opensim with SLOP
2008-04-23 03:16:00 SLOP is a tool that converts builds made into Second Life or OpenSim in a format that is compatible with either one of the worlds. More About: Moving , Main , Objects , Secondlife
Future of Edusim and the Ensuing Tipping Points
2008-04-21 19:46:00 An important component to Edusim is the idea of community involvement (http://edusim.ning.com). The idea that the users are also contributors to the effort: in de-bugging, setting future direction, creating lesson/worlds and sharing them with others. Though the application has been downloaded almost 15,000 time in 7 months for us at Greenbush to ... More About: Future , Points , Vision
The Edusim Concept Roundup.
2008-04-20 20:49:00 I want to do a quick roundup post bringing in all Edusim public domain concepts into one cohernt place: * Original wish list for the community(Changing the classroom IWB - Oct. 20 2007) * Edusim High Order Bits (Broad strokes of the concept - Nov. 30th 2007) * Edusim Variations (Same concept - different engine - Feb ... More About: Roundup , Vision , Concept
What Edusim on Cobalt will look like & TPainter tips
2008-04-18 06:57:00 TPainter tips if you are having trouble ! More About: Tips , Cobalt
GreenbushGrid (Opensim) on an interactive whiteboard
2008-04-16 21:19:00 Quick video demo of GreenbushGrid on a IWB: More About: Whiteboard , Interactive
Johnny Lee Demo?s the Wiimote Whiteboard in this months TED talk
2008-04-14 19:06:00 Johnny Lee Demo ’s the Wiimote Whiteboard in this months TED talk - Also touches on the powers of Youtube & Prototyping More About: Main , Talk
The Labs Blog in a Tag Cloud Nutshell
2008-04-12 16:33:00 A tagcloud of the Greenbush Labs Blog (most blogged words are larger) 3d access blog channel classroom collaborative collective community computer consumers crowdsourcing designed devices download education edusim employee engage environments fcc filed forum free google greenbush idea immersive innovation interactive internet island labs latest learning measuring media microsoft mobile open opensource organizations ... More About: Main , Cloud , Tag Cloud
DimDim - open Beta - does free web collaboration like Webex
2008-04-10 19:18:00 Dimdim is the world?s free web meeting where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees. More About: Open , Free , Beta , Blog , Main
Measuring Innovation - counting the apples in a seed
2008-04-09 19:29:00 As most growing organizations today will tell you - innovation is a fundamental part of an organizations growth and expansion. This post will explore the metrics for measuring innovation as outlined in the newly (Jan 2008) released report by the US Commerce department “Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century”. Excerpt from the report: [View ... More About: Main , Apples , Vision , Seed
Secondlife sneaking in Webpages on a prim
2008-04-08 03:59:00 Notides a new feature on our Secondlife Greenbush Island .. SL is starting to sneak in webpages on a prim finally … Anxious to see how this evolves over the coming months ! More About: Main , Prim
Immersive Education - Via InternetEvolution.com
2008-04-07 01:42:00 clipped from www.internetevolution.com Immersive Education : Introducing Game-Based Learning Is that a revolution I hear? Some educators say Immersive Education — virtual worlds and game-based learning technology — can reform the way students are taught. Others call it a natural and necessary evolution. Still others call it heresy that has no place in education whatsoever. Only time will ... More About: Main
The GreenbushGrid virtual learning environment prototype is up and running
2008-04-03 19:32:00 Our GreenbushGrid prototype is up and running. A virtual learning environment hosted by Greenbush - details are here: http://grid.greenbush.us More About: Environment , Running , Main , Virtual , Prototype
SUN shines with employee blogs
2008-04-02 18:53:00 If you have not see what Sun is doing with their employee blogs its worth a peak - http://blogs.sun.com . I was very impressed with how easy it is to mine & search information from their collective blogs through their “synthesis” type interface. Very intuitive and clean ! One of the main reasons I ... More About: Blogs , Blog , Employee , Vision
A quick reminder of our current and emerging service delivery platforms
2008-03-30 22:22:00 (original post - July 2nd 2007) More About: Service , Current , Blog , Main , Quick
Audio Transcript - Immersive Education Forum March 28th : Touch devices and
2008-03-29 21:09:00 Greenbush Island was fortunate to host las weeks immersive education forum focusing on the role of interactive surfaces in virtual environments. The event was held in the auditorium on Greenbush Island by immersive education enthusiast and researchers from around the world. The audio transcript is below: http://tinyurl.com/ynu8p8 The Immersive Education Anouncement: http://immersiveeducation.org/events/#SUR FACE Aaron also mentions the newly formed Immersive Education K-12 Pilot Group and ... More About: Audio , Devices , Forum , March
Crowsourcing and harnessing collective intelligence to create ?better? thin
2008-03-26 14:42:00 Anyone involved in an opensource development project understands crowdsourcing - harnessing collective intelligence to create better more useful software, hardware, things. But crowdsourcing is becoming very popular not just in software communities any more ! [via - cnet.com] Crowdsourcing has entered the mainstream big time. It has become daunting to find a brand these days ... More About: Intelligence , Blog , Create , Collective
Edusim on Cobalt Tutorial (& TPainter Tips)
2008-03-26 03:44:00 Watch it here More About: Tutorial , Tips , Main , Cobalt
Microsoft Origami and the The Ultra-Mobile PC
2008-03-25 15:15:00 [Via microsoft.com] Now you can take your PC everywhere! Your ultra-mobile PC, with the full power of Windows Vista, is designed for your on-the-go lifestyle. About the size of a paperback book, the UMPC is small and light enough to fit easily into a carry-on, a purse, or a backpack. And yet, the UMPC features a ... More About: Mobile , Microsoft , Ultra , Main , Origami
Did Secondlife wait to long to release their server code?
2008-03-25 03:59:00 Lately it seems that Opensim has come from nowhere compared to 8 months ago. Below are a few “Grids” that are popping up to take the place Secondlife for some: More About: Main , Code , Server , Release , Long
New inputs for 3D virtual environments - why the mouse and keyboard are too
2008-03-25 03:45:00 The more I work with 3D virtual environments the more obvious it becomes to me that the keyboard and mouse are fairly rudimentary methods for navigating and operating in them. Through my work with Edusim and interactive surfaces we get close (via the classroom interactive whiteboard) to interacting with the 3D virtual space in a ... More About: Main , Virtual , Mouse , Keyboard
Google gets its way with 700 Mhz - now whats in its sight for wireless inte
2008-03-24 19:22:00 [via arstechnica.com] - Now that Google got its way with the 700 Mhz spectrum … Its going after unused TV spectrum “Whitespace” and what it is calling “Wifi on steroids” by 2009 Google famously bid on the 700MHz spectrum auction that wrapped up last week, but was outbid by Verizon. Most observers have characterized Google ... More About: Wireless , Blog , Main , Vision
Ultra-mobiles in the classroom !
2008-03-20 04:00:00 [Via eSchool] & [Innovation for learning] The ?teachermate? handheld computer, as the device is called, features a 2.5-inch color screen, 512 megabytes of internal memory, an SD slot for expandability, a built-in microphone and speaker, and a battery life of four hours. An innovative case that holds 30 of the devices can charge them all ... More About: Mobiles , Ultra , Vision
Continuing the Edusim transition to Cobalt code
2008-03-19 05:07:00 A quick peak - grab it here http://edusim3d.com I am convinced as ever that a lot of what Greenbush will be doing as an Education Service Center in the 2-5-10 years to come will involve immersive education and Edusim type environments - and our proficiency in the discipline will be import … right now though .. ... More About: Main , Code , Vision , Cobalt , Transition
2 and 1 years ago on Greenbush Labs
2008-03-17 18:59:00 2 years ago Greenbush Labs was only 6 months along! and here is one of the labs first videos: Last year this time we had just started our official GreenbushTV channel on Youtube. Today with 85 subscribers and 127 videos we are making some progress ! Here is the video posted 1 year ... More About: Years , Vision
Ultra mobile - immersive - and always availabel
2008-03-17 18:47:00 Sitting here in March of 2008 its not so obviouse that the internet is evolving into an Ultra mobile - immersive - and always available service. Having trumpeted the ultra mobile and immersive webs for some time now it is becoming more obviouse that is indeed the future we have to look forward to. ... More About: Mobile , Main , Vision
Greenbush - leading in innovative K-12 immersive education initiatives
More articles from this author:2008-03-14 17:45:00 As the leader in innovation and development of K-12 immersive education systems we continue to strive and build upon our existing immersive ed. platforms or Edusim and our Greenbush Island in Secondlife. For several months we have been talking about the Opensim server and setting one up for us to locally host here at ... More About: Education , Main , Leading , Innovative 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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