February ← 2008 ← Greenbush Labs

MS Surface with games … but give us Educational Content too!

Feb

2008

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”

Kindlelab on a Wiimote Whiteboard in the wild 2

Feb

2008

A teacher demonstrates Kindlelab on their Wiimote Whiteboard http://kindlelab.com

Tour the universe using Microsofts World Wide Telescope – TED video – more IWB fun !

Feb

2008

Free this spring at – http://worldwidetelescope.org/ Bet this is great on an interactive whiteboard

Will Wrights (createor of the Sims) new game – SPORE

Feb

2008

Will Wright talks about Spore, Learning, and Design

Defining Rich-Immersive Learning Environments & Immersive Education

Feb

2008

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

Feb

2008

A very innovative idea:

Cell and Cell Parts Edusim Lesson is Now Available for Download 1

Feb

2008

_ http://edusim3d.com

High flying WiFi balloon literally puts wifi in the “Air”

Feb

2008

who needs any of the 700 Mhz Spectrum when you have “WiFi in a Balloon”

Microsoft moving towards opensource? – Yes

Feb

2008

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 ...

Will natural input go mainstream with Windows 7

Feb

2008

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

Business week talks about social media, business, and why you should pay attention

Feb

2008

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 ...

Scribd IPaper embeds PDF (and everything else)

Feb

2008

Scribd IPaper embeds PDF (and everything else) Scribd IPaper lets you embed PDF files (see here for an example: http://greenbush.ning.com/group/greenbushtechologyconference2008) http://www.scribd.com/ … and For some unknown reason – does not play well with my WordPress postings.

A new and emerging genera in blogging – “Live Blogging”

Feb

2008

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 ...

Immersive Education Projects at Greenbush

Feb

2008

Greenbush Island – http://sl.greenbush.us Greenbush Teen Education Island Edusim – http://edusim3d.com Greenbush Education Grid – http://grid.greenbush.us

New inputs to interact with 3D virtual environments

Feb

2008

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 ...

Immersive Education and reaching Learners 1

Feb

2008

A nice research article discussing immersive education and reaching learners (covers Edusim a tiny bit on page 5) http://www.thompsonet.com/pdf/Reaching_Learners.pdf

Microsoft about to go immersive with surfaces?

Feb

2008

A quick observation – having read Scoble here – http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/ (and techcrunch here – http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-will-launch-something-that-made-scoble-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 ...

Immersive Ed with Edusim – Opensim – Greenbush Island – Greenbush Teen Island

Feb

2008

(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 ...

Social -> Mobile -> Immersive Web Presentation

Feb

2008

Edusim Alpha PDF Training Manual

Feb

2008

Our instructional media specialist produced a hard copy of the Edusim training manual (to accompany the videos http://edusim3d.com/?page=parts.php?=4 Edusim training Download PDF Here