New Yorks Times piece on virtual worlds for the grammar school kiddos: [tinyurl.com] “Get ready for total inundation,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at the research firm eMarketer, who estimates that 20 million children will be members of a virtual world by 2011, up from 8.2 million today. Worlds like Webkinz, where children care ...

Quick Start Video Tutorials Starting Edusim & Enabling Lessons Navigating & Menus Adding Simple Content

Here are a bunch of 3D objects from the Alice project …. to load them drag the *.MDL file into your created Edusim world. [edusim3d.com]

Wikipedia information Research has been carried out to track the worldwide Interactive Whiteboard market by Decision Tree Consulting (DTC) a worldwide research company * Interactive Whiteboards continue to be the biggest technology revolution in classrooms * Across the world there are over 750,000 boards installed * Over 3 million classrooms are forecast to have Interactive ...

[www.engines4ed.org] My Observations: The Kids got a Wii this Christmas – so we un-boxed and set it up. The graphics are not what PS3 and XBox has to offer – but the interface is amazingly intuitive. The kinetic/movement method to complete game tasks is amazingly powerful I have observed – Watching kids learn is an ...

[www.qik.com] What's Qik all about? Go live with your life by streaming anytime, anywhere — right from your phone. Be an eyewitness, capture those first steps, or whip up your own streaming video blog. Very cool…. scary for schools !

- This is about as close as I have seen that combines ALL of the key elements that we are trying to emulate (at extremely low costs and obviously will not duplicate it exactly – this is very high end, but NOT multi-user !) with Edusim. Its called ImersiveTouch – [www.immersivetouch.com] As is posted here: ...

Smarttech made a visit to Greenbush Dec. 19th to observe the Edusim project – and discuss the possibility of bringing it (or something very similar – possibly a Qwaq forums service) into the Smarttech suite of products. The Edusim work is helping not just students, and teachers envision the potential of 3D virtual environments as ...

"Interactive Surfaces are to 3D Spaces What a Mouse is to the GUI" The importance of touch: [en.wikipedia.org] Gibson (1966) defines the haptic system as "The sensibility of the individual to the world adjacent to his body by use of his body". The haptic perceptual system is unusual in that it can include the sensory ...

Edusim leads others to try Croquet worlds on surfaces (kinda) [www.edutechie.com] Our vision for haptics in Croquet/Virtual Environments have not gone un-noticed either ! [rich.greenbush.us] Though our belief that touching the interactive whiteboard surface is haptic in nature (that it provides touch feedback) in and of itself – the need for the future surface to ...

[www.flixwagon.com] With a 3G/WiFi mobile phone & Flixwagon (IPhone anyone?) – you can stream live video to the world – from your phone – Grandma and Grandpa need not ever miss another pee wee soccer game (though arguing with the ref will be a little more difficult for Grandpa)

eBeam turns a regular monitor into a touch surface Blog reactions: [technocoach.blogspot.com]

_ Via [jlombardi.blogspot.com] Today, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Duke University a $100,000 prize for leadership and development work to advance Croquet in the open source. The prize was one of ten presented as part of the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) which are given each year to not‐for‐profit organizations for ...

About a year ago we covered TeacherTube on Greenbush Labs [rich.greenbush.us] .. and we have grown to like it even more through the year… we have been sharing our Edusim experience via Teachertube… and they have been featuring our work.. to which we say Thank You! … So go check them out ! [www.teachertube.com]

[edusim3d.com] Video is here: [www.youtube.com] Blog Reactions: [blog.loaz.com]

Wow … to think hacking the Wii-mote makes a $50 interactive whiteboard device… & with Edusim — What a low cost combination! Something I definately plan to tinker with ! [www.hackaday.com]

_ We have modified how we share Edusim lessons for a few reasons: (1) Development time will be decreased allowing us to get new lessons out sooner (2) Downloads will be much smaller by us only sharing the cache directory of the lessons world (3) It may lead to other users sharing their “cache” work ...