-As I have blogged about for about for some time the 2 emerging ed. tech technologies the education sector as a whole should keep its eyes -on – the “Mobile and Immersive web“.  Signs are starting to show that companies are starting to notice the trends as well.  Greenbush in resoponse over the past few years ...

Constructionist learning is inspired by constructivist theories of learning that propose that learning is an active process wherein learners are actively constructing mental models and theories of the world around them. Constructionism holds that learning can happen most effectively when people are actively making things in the real world. Constructionism is connected with experiential learning ...

& DL here -> http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL

Considering ways to track students “Quest Points” as they perform certain VW taks via Opensim – considering Moodle as the ideal front end to defining  the “Quest” objective .. and assigning points (for grades?… redeamed for objects? etc?)

* 11 concurrent users all building objects drags the server to a crawl (Ideal number for building is in the 5-6 range) * Wanting to run Realxtend but at the least get .05.8 running (from a MySQL server) …. currently running .0.5.4 from SQLite * Looking to get a new machine to run the  GBGrid ...

The Croquet Consortium started the Cobalt project a few months ago and recently secured funding from the National Science Foundation to build out Cobalt into a production quality virtual world application within the next 12 months. The Edusim projects goal is to leverage the production quality code that the Cobalt project generates to bring a ...

http://www.openinnovation.net/  “Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. [This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance ...

http://www.lively.com Techcrunch Story

IBM Labs has successfully moved Seconlife avatars from a Secondlife island to a privately hosted Opensim Server. Read more & watch video here

http://www.vexrobotics.com

A great video defining what Lego Mindstorms NXT is and how to build a simple robot using the kit 

StarLogoTNG – Like Croquet – with a bit of programing interface. … would seem to compliment Edusim well. http://education.mit.edu/drupal/starlogo-tng