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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
Quotable Quotes
2008-03-14 04:39:00 ?There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.? - Albert Einstein Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. ? Alan Watts. ?Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your ... More About: Main , Quotes
Edusim user input - and ?Edusim Institute? this summer (July perhaps)?
2008-03-13 18:46:00 I am needing a little feedback from the Edusim community. How many would be interested in a 2 day in depth Edusim institute. Basically a 2 day training & brainstorming session to layout the foundation for Edusim in the classroom - and get a direction by the leading edge classroom innovators (You guys!), Ill show ... More About: Summer , Main , User , July , Institute
Good news for Software User Interface Designers - The World is Changing Fas
2008-03-13 18:23:00 For those that are user interface types and designers - times have never been more interesting. And today Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicted some even more good news, “Next decade will bring huge software advances” .. almost all concerning user interface! [Via Infoworld.com] — Computer users will have more options for inputting information beyond ... More About: Software , News , World , Good News , Main
Edusim status report
2008-03-13 15:59:00 The Edusim project keeps moving forward. Our Alpha 04 version has been released and is available at http://edusim3d.com/?page=parts.php?=2 . We also now have a quickstart beginners guide and quick start videos located at http://edusim3d.com/?page=parts.php?=4Our hope is that with the base application becoming more stable, along with quickstart videos and tutorials we can now ... More About: Main , Report , Status
Will Wright & Brian Eno - SPORE and creative arts in Games
2008-03-10 20:39:00 This will make you think about randomness, art, science, and education. Very interesting More About: Creative , Games , Arts , Main , Brian
Why we should care about the spectrum debate
2008-03-09 05:09:00 [Via News.com] There is a “battle for platform supremacy between two different types of devices”–mobile versus computer, he said. The mobile platform has a centralized, monopoly legacy whereas the computer platform was born in a distributed, open environment. More About: Main , Debate , Care , Vision , Spectrum
Edusim - Alpha 04 is ready for download (in world lesson loading menu added
2008-03-08 20:12:00 Edusim - Alpha 04 is ready for download (in world lesson loading menu added - buggy) Watch a video clip here More About: World , Download , Menu , Lesson
A Sphere vs. a Flat Surface - the Interactive Sphere
2008-03-05 19:07:00 I received a memo that their may be a “Sphere ” interactive surface device as opposed to a “flat surface” interactive surface device in the making … I am still contemplating the user experience with this … but it sounds very interesting - I can imagine the classroom interaction that could take place. More About: Interactive , Main , Surface , Flat
Say hello to Cobalt
2008-03-05 15:51:00 [via http://jlombardi.blogspot.com] Cobalt is an emerging open source and multi-platform metaverse browser and toolkit application being built using the open source Croquet SDK. A pre-alpha build of the Cobalt application is being made freely available to the emerging virtual worlds community by Duke University and its partners under the Croquet license. We hope that by ... More About: Main
Is Edmodo the “Twitter for schools” schools have been waiting for?
2008-03-01 23:33:00 [via techcrunch] Which as Tech crunch points out - Why cant twitter be the “Twitter for schools”? Edmodo says it’s going to be Twitter for teachers and students, with features like calendaring events that are tailored to the classroom. Check it out here ….. But it is nice to see Edusim is not the only thing out there in public Alpha ! More About: Schools , Waiting
MS Surface with games … but give us Educational Content too!
2008-02-29 17:14:00 As posted at Crunchgear & Sarcastic Gamer Kind of a neat little game … but it REALLY could do so much more …. something more along the lines with what we are doing with Edusim http://edusim3d.com involving 3D direct manipulation of 3D learning objects .. employing the Edusim theory of “Rich-Immersive Learning Environments” More About: Games , Educational , Content , Give , Surface
Kindlelab on a Wiimote Whiteboard in the wild
2008-02-29 01:19:00 A teacher demonstrates Kindlelab on their Wiimote Whiteboard http://kindlelab.com More About: Wild
Tour the universe using Microsofts World Wide Telescope - TED video - more
2008-02-28 21:16:00 Free this spring at - http://worldwidetelescope.org/ Bet this is great on an interactive whiteboard More About: Video , World , Universe , Telescope , Tour
Will Wrights (createor of the Sims) new game - SPORE
2008-02-28 17:44:00 Will Wright talks about Spore , Learning, and Design More About: The Sims , Game , Sims
Defining Rich-Immersive Learning Environments & Immersive Education
2008-02-27 18:44:00 The Rich -Immersive Learning Environment and Immersive Education * 3D virtual learning objects * Kinetic and direct manipulation * Haptic feedback from hardware * Whiteboards, Wii as pre-cursor hardware used to interact with the 3D virtual object (software) * Edusim as a Rich-Immersive Learning Environment (RILE)
Virtual Environments - Toys - Learning - and Staying Active
2008-02-22 21:27:00 A very innovative idea: More About: Toys , Virtual , Learning , Active
Cell and Cell Parts Edusim Lesson is Now Available for Download
2008-02-22 05:06:00 _ http://edusim3d.com More About: Download , Cell , Parts , Lesson
High flying WiFi balloon literally puts wifi in the ?Air?
2008-02-21 20:46:00 who needs any of the 700 Mhz Spectrum when you have “WiFi in a Balloon ” More About: Flying , Wifi , High , Literally
Microsoft moving towards opensource? - Yes
2008-02-21 20:34:00 As I first blogged back in August - Microsoft moving towards opensource? Now we know .. and the answer is yes.. at least a bit anyway! In a press conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced a new initiative designed to open up its products and foster better ... More About: Moving , Opensource
Will natural input go mainstream with Windows 7
2008-02-20 15:34:00 News.com is reporting on Windows 7 “Keyboard & Mouse getting company” “The likelihood is that touch will become mainstream on certain form factors very quickly because we are working hand-in-hand with the hardware companies,” Gates told CNET News.com “Speech and ink it’s a little harder to say.” Catch the rest here More About: Natural , Windows 7 , Input
Business week talks about social media, business, and why you should pay at
2008-02-20 15:30:00 Businessweek.com is running a nice article regarding social media and your customer Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake up just about every business?including yours. It doesn’t ... More About: Business , Social , Media , Business Week , Week
Scribd IPaper embeds PDF (and everything else)
2008-02-20 01:16:00 Scribd IPaper embeds PDF (and everything else) Scribd IPaper lets you embed PDF files (see here for an example: http://greenbush.ning.com/group/greenbush techologyconference2008) http://www.scribd.com/ … and For some unknown reason - does not play well with my Wordpress postings. var scribd_doc = new scribd.Document(2086119, \'key-gxymn7bnivqenu00mjh\'); scribd_doc.write(\'embedded_flash\');
A new and emerging genera in blogging - ?Live Blogging?
2008-02-20 00:47:00 A new and emerging genera in blogging - “Live Blogging ” Live logging is basically the blogging of a live event in real time - I have seen them done for sporting events, press conference event, and just about everything in-between. Coveritlive - http://coveritlive.com makes it a snap. CoveritLive’s web based software takes your next live blog ... More About: Genera
Immersive Education Projects at Greenbush
2008-02-18 01:04:00 Greenbush Island - http://sl.greenbush.us Greenbush Teen Education Island Edusim - http://edusim3d.com Greenbush Education Grid - http://grid.greenbush.us More About: Projects , Blog
New inputs to interact with 3D virtual environments
2008-02-15 23:49:00 Its about time I read this on a big traffic blog - http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9873205- 52.html?tag=tb I have said in past posts direct input is to 3D environments what the mouse is to flat ones. Which is basically the point of Mitch Kapor in this article - http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9873205- 52.html?tag=tb — We are using surface devices with Edusim now of ... More About: Virtual , Interact
Immersive Education and reaching Learners
2008-02-15 05:32:00 A nice research article discussing immersive education and reaching learners (covers Edusim a tiny bit on page 5) http://www.thompsonet.com/pdf/Reaching_Le arners.pdf var sc_project=2976988; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=32; var sc_security="e3773e00"; More About: Education
Microsoft about to go immersive with surfaces?
2008-02-15 05:10:00 A quick observation - having read Scoble here - http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsof t-researchers-make-me-cry/ (and techcrunch here - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/14/micr osoft-will-launch-something-that-made-sco ble-cry-i-want-to-see-scoble-cry/) and reading responses in the blogosphere: I?ve noticed a trend at Microsoft : that the coolest stuff is done by small teams without a ton of resources. Down the hall from Wong and Fay was researcher Andy Wilson. When I walked into his ... More About: Vision
Immersive Ed with Edusim - Opensim - Greenbush Island - Greenbush Teen Isla
2008-02-15 00:19:00 (1) Continuing to build out Edusim (2) Building out KEEB Building in Secondlife for the employment fair March 4th (3) Teen grid is there - passed initiative off the the science center to develop (4) Greenbush Grid: Opensim is running internally - plan to deploy a pilot outside the firewall soon. Our Immersive ed. tools will range ... More About: Island
Edusim Alpha PDF Training Manual
2008-02-12 23:03:00 Our instructional media specialist produced a hard copy of the Edusim training manual (to accompany the videos http://edusim3d.com/?page=parts.php?=4 Download PDF Here More About: Training , Alpha , Manual
The New Labs Blog Layout
More articles from this author:2008-02-12 07:32:00 As you may have noticed I FINALLY switched over to Wordpress for my blog …. there is never a good time to do something like that … My offical labs blog is heading towards 3 years so I was not able to import all my past posts … All posts prior to Jun 9th 2006 ... More About: Blog , Labs , Layout 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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