Directory —
Technology —
Blog Details for "Greenbush Labs Technology Education and Inovation"
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
Pitt State Technology in the Classroom Conference - 3D Immersive Ed. Presen
2008-06-05 22:10:00 - More About: Technology , Main , State , Pitt , Conference
A National ?Innovation? Plan - a word from Obama
2008-06-02 16:16:00 Obama announced a national innovation plan last year at Google [Via - NussbaumOnDesign ] Here are the outlines of an Obama National Innovation Policy: 1- Network neutrality. Keep the internet open. 2- Broadband access. Connect everyone to very fast broadband. 3- Use technology to open democracy. Put government data online in accessible formats. Allow people to track earmarks, regulation and ... More About: Word , Main , Obama
Edusim is ?Edupunk?
2008-05-31 18:28:00 [Via http://www.downes.ca] “edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance. Barbara Ganley’s philosophy of teaching and digital expression is an elegant manifestation of edupunk. Nina Simon, with her imaginative ways of applying web 2.0 philosophies to museum exhibit design, offers both low- and high-tech edupunk visions. ... More About: Main
Open letter to the Cobalt developers group - 3D virtual spaces & touch base
2008-05-30 18:04:00 - As a member & contributor to the Cobalt development group I have issued an open letter open for discussion - Cobalt is an Open source development project who’s aim is to create a 3D virtual world “Web browser” With a flood of touch based OS’s & devices just a short time away it will be ever as ... More About: Main , Letter , Virtual , Touch
A National Innovation Policy
2008-05-28 21:19:00 Compliments of Business Weeks “NussbaumOnDesign” (Bruce Nussbaum on May 28) Below are his 6 points. 1- Support the work being done on codifying design methodology and design strategy at the IIT Institute of Design, the Stanford D-School, Carnegie Mellon, The Rotman School of Management and other institutions. 2- Build out the nascent fields of service innovation and ... More About: National , Main , Innovation , Policy
Windows 7 also think - keyboard and mouse rudimentary for certain tasks
2008-05-28 05:14:00 Re-stating the GBLabs post from March “New inputs for 3D virtual environments (on mobiles?) - why the mouse and keyboard are too rudimentary” .. Windows annouced today that: Microsoft had previously hinted that the touch gestures would find their way into Windows. In an interesting twist though, the new technology will work with existing touch ... More About: Main , Mouse , Keyboard , Windows 7
Before Edusim was ?. Simon and the land of chalk drawings
2008-05-28 04:08:00 I was a kid of the 80’s … on Capt. Kangaroo was a cartoon called “Simon and the land of chalk drawings” … I must confess … this cartoon is responsible for most of my classroom daydreams *lol* - and as an adult influenced the Edusim project - here is a quick preview for those ... More About: Drawings , Main , Land , Chalk
Microsoft Origami (and the The Ultra-Mobile PC) - Demo video
2008-05-28 01:01:00 I first blogged about Origami several months ago here - found this video that showed its capabilities. The UMPC’s are a bit bigger than the cell phones of today …. but will surely grab their share of the market in time (And could make amazing personal learning assistants !) More About: Video , Mobile , Microsoft , Ultra , Main
Collective IQ, the role of the individual, and avoiding the common group b
2008-05-26 18:43:00 Great article on Read Write Web regarding Collective IQ - though extremely powerful for sharing concepts and ideas - has pitfalls what care is not taken to think critically about the groups behavior as a whole. 1. Group s should operate within constraints. To harness the collective intelligence of crowds, there need to ... More About: Main , Common , Individual , Role
Urlta-mobile computing roundup : the network & devices align for tipping po
2008-05-25 17:04:00 Excluding what the 700 Mhz spectrum is doing (and the upcoming IPhone 3G?) - here are some other encouraging signs of the upcoming ultra-mobile tipping point [Via Gizmodo] FCC Planning New Spectrum Auction With Free Broadband for All “Netbook Remix” Ubuntu for Ultraportables Coming in June ASUS vaguely hints at alternative Eee form factors More About: Mobile , Roundup , Devices , Network , Computing
Daily Twitter: Eating your own dogfood :: John Seely Brown & Innovation
2008-05-22 17:53:00 “eat your own dogfood” blog post from last July - http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=247 More About: Daily , Innovation , John , Brown , Twitter
Accessing the beginners mind through Edusim
2008-05-22 16:32:00 As I have blogged about for some time now, I believe Edusim is as much a concept as it is an application - in a sense the application is used to demonstrate the concept - and the true power of direct manipulation of 3D objects on the surface for teaching kids. I also believe ... More About: Mind , Vision
Daily Twitter: Mobile CTC Data Navigator by Sept 1st 2008 :: PBS Teacherlin
2008-05-21 17:22:00 – Note via twitter I plan on creating a mobile (Iphone friendly) version of the CTC data navigator application this summer .. should be fun ! http://www.ctcdata.org We still have a long way to go regarding 3D virtual environments on interactive whiteboards in the classroom — but we will get there 3D virtual environments on ... More About: Daily , Mobile , Data , Twitter , Navigator
New Labs Project: GreenbushMOBILE - Greenbush content for your mobile devic
2008-05-16 15:10:00 As an extension of our (now 2 year old) podcast project I began the process a few weeks ago of looking at content that lends itself to being “Widgitized” for the mobile devices (with most attention going to the IPhone - though I realize the project will need to be more broad). So using existing RSS, ... More About: Mobile , Project , Main , Content , Labs
Kindlelab - Opensource Interactive Whiteboard Project (For the WiimoteWhite
2008-05-16 04:39:00 Grab it at http://kindlelab.com More About: Whiteboard , Project , Interactive , Main , Opensource
It pays to never give up!
2008-05-16 00:46:00 A great video of people who tried - failed - but refused to give up: More About: Main , Give , Pays , Give up
This time last year in Greenbush Labs - GreenbushTV, Whiteboards, 3D virtua
2008-05-15 04:23:00 - Was looking back at what we were working on around this time past year: http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=313 http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=296 http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=295 http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=277 Several big concepts from that time frame. No doubt this time next year we will be able to look back at the under the radar stuff we are developing now ! We are getting there ! More About: Time , Main , Labs , Year
Gates demoed TouchWall today ? teachers - this should look familier !
2008-05-15 03:49:00 “In the future most surfaces will have touch input capability” .. says Bill Gates and I must say … I could not agree more we are ready for a new HCI paradigm to go mainstream (especially with regard to navigating 3D virtual spaces) [as outlined in this post last month] Here is what Bill Gates himself ... More About: Main , Today , Teachers
The World Wide Telescope in an interactive whiteboard
2008-05-15 01:04:00 Another one of my quick demos: Greb the WWT Here More About: World , Telescope , Whiteboard , Interactive , Main
The Upcoming Surge in Surface Devices - Gates to show off multitouch wall d
2008-05-14 19:55:00 [Via Infoworld] TouchWall , a prototype device developed by Microsoft Research and Office Labs, is a vertical representation of Surface, the multitouch tabletop computer from Microsoft. TouchWall could be used by business people to give presentations. They can touch the panel that would hang on the wall to drag, scroll and enlarge documents, photos or videos ... More About: Show , Devices , Main , Surge
Phun on the interactive whiteboard Part 2
2008-05-14 01:15:00 Got PHUN on our Activeboard today ! … What PHUN ! DL it yourself here - http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki More About: Whiteboard , Interactive , Main , Part
Evolving how Greenbush delivers services
2008-05-13 17:20:00 We are starting to get some of the early Greenbush Labs innovations (and things we have evangelized for a few years now) embedded into how we operate (as an organization) as reflected by new version of our website slated to be rolled out here in July. podcasts & searching media, live streaming GBtv through ... More About: Services , Main
A rudimentary CAVE based system - JDome
2008-05-12 18:49:00 I really like this concept as an immersive CAVE based system …. Edusim on a concaved screen would make it that much more immersive ! I think these could really boost a kids learning experience ! More About: System , Main , Cave
Phun with your interactive whiteboard
2008-05-12 05:33:00 Ill have some whiteboard specific activities to share soon … but until then here is the Phun demo video ! & More About: Whiteboard , Interactive , Main
Our virtual environments work - Secondlife: 1 yr 8 months - Croquet Edusim:
2008-05-12 02:20:00 - Our virtual environements work is slowly approaching the 2 years mark. Blow are the time markers of of some of the more events. Began working in Secondlife : 1 yr 8 months ago Began working with Croquet (creating Edusim): 9 months ago Began working with Opensim: 6 months Began the Greenbush Labs projects blog: 2 years 6 months ago. More About: Work , Main , Virtual , Vision
Futurama - things I think a neat part 1: Micro dwellings, wearbale tech, ul
2008-05-10 17:31:00 Who says an Ed. tech blog has to be all business? Off and on I will give my $.02 on OTHER things I think are cool. Surfing Engadget (on of my popular stops) and ran into a few things I find interesting: Wearable tech (wear your laptop): Ultraportable does Ubuntu: Just when I thought I would not find ... More About: Futurama , Tech , Main , Part , Things
The technology chasm developing between student and schools
2008-05-10 15:03:00 Technology schools are using and technology students use every day (after they leave school) has never been different. A video that discusses technology in schools. It also seem appropriate to link to the Wikipedia description of Change Blindness As students embrace mobile media and devices, virtual environments, and social networks (and make them part ... More About: Technology , Student , Schools , Main
3D Stereographics - game consoles & Edusim
2008-05-06 17:18:00 [Via Crunchgear] Imagine the Wii [or Edusim ! ] with 3D vision. The console would understand if you were behind an object and images would move accordingly and you could reach out with your hand to ?touch? items on the screen. The technology is real and it works and PrimeSense, a small Israeli ... More About: Consoles , Game , Vision
1st Annual Greenbush Technology Conference
2008-05-01 21:25:00 1st Annual Greenbush Technology Conference wrapped up yesterday. A nice crowd of around 50-60 to attend around 4 sessions of 20 different breakouts covering content ranging from interactive whiteboards, to Moodle, to United Streaming, To advanced 3D in the classroom. Looking forward to doing it again next year ! More About: Main
Greenbush Synthesis, Blogs, and ?Mining the Cognitive Surplus?
More articles from this author:2008-04-27 21:43:00 Great pieces from Slashdot [Here] Listen to the audio themes here * Sharing & Tagging (to coordinate) - http://del.icio.us * Conversation * Collaboration * Collective Action Greenbush Synthesis Description (March 14, 2007) Greenbush Synthesis Latest Blog Posts More About: Mining , Blogs , Main , Surplus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
|
