May ← 2008 ← Greenbush Labs

Edusim is “Edupunk”

May

2008

[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. ...

Open letter to the Cobalt developers group – 3D virtual spaces & touch based hardware 1

May

2008

- As a member & contributor to the Cobalt development group I have issued an open letter open for discussion – Cobalt is an Opensource 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 ...

A National Innovation Policy

May

2008

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 ...

Windows 7 also think – keyboard and mouse rudimentary for certain tasks

May

2008

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 ...

Before Edusim was …. Simon and the land of chalk drawings

May

2008

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 ...

Microsoft Origami (and the The Ultra-Mobile PC) – Demo video

May

2008

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 !)

Collective IQ, the role of the individual, and avoiding the common group behavior

May

2008

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. Groups should operate within constraints. To harness the collective intelligence of crowds, there need to be rules in ...

Urlta-mobile computing roundup : the network & devices align for tipping point

May

2008

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

Daily Twitter: Eating your own dogfood :: John Seely Brown & Innovation :: Evangelizing tech

May

2008

“eat your own dogfood” blog post from last July – http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=247 Evangalizing tech is more like 500 where you throw the ball up and see who catches it vs. pitching to a particular catcher/target

Accessing the beginners mind through Edusim

May

2008

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 it ...

Daily Twitter: Mobile CTC Data Navigator by Sept 1st 2008 :: PBS Teacherline :: Smallworlds

May

2008

– 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 ...

New Labs Project: GreenbushMOBILE – Greenbush content for your mobile device 1

May

2008

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 ...

Kindlelab – Opensource Interactive Whiteboard Project (For the WiimoteWhiteboard)

May

2008

Grab it at http://kindlelab.com

It pays to never give up!

May

2008

A great video of people who tried – failed – but refused to give up:

This time last year in Greenbush Labs – GreenbushTV, Whiteboards, 3D virtual environments (no Edusim yet though)

May

2008

- 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 !

Gates demoed TouchWall today … teachers – this should look familier !

May

2008

“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 ...

The World Wide Telescope in an interactive whiteboard

May

2008

Another one of my quick demos: Greb the WWT Here

The Upcoming Surge in Surface Devices – Gates to show off multitouch wall device at CEO Summit

May

2008

[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 ...

Phun on the interactive whiteboard Part 2

May

2008

Got PHUN on our Activeboard today ! … What PHUN ! DL it yourself here – http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki

Using Piclens as a presentation platform for your interactive whiteboard

May

2008