August ← 2009 ← Greenbush Labs

The Hybrid Classroom: Online Meets Real World

Aug

2009

US Department of Education funded study finds: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction,” Via http://mashable.com/2009/08/31/online-education-teachers Teachers will certainly need to adapt in order to use new tools and methods, but that’s nothing new. Online education may never completely replace face-to-face learning, though as the Department of Education ...

Virtual 3-D lab aims to stimulate learning (Via EWeek)

Aug

2009

This may look very familiar to those that follow the “Mobile Immersive Learning Lab” and ““Quick CAVE” work here. Via eWeek Students at a Baltimore County high school this fall will explore the area surrounding Mount St. Helens in a vehicle that can morph from an aircraft to a car to a boat to learn ...

Very Good Kurzweils Synopsis of Exponential Growth 1

Aug

2009

Very Good Kurzweils Synopsis of Exponential Growth .. Well worth a watch ! And my favorite part:

Merging and Evolving – Interactive Surfaces and 3D Virtual Environments 1

Aug

2009

When the Edusim project was first started 2 years ago it was hard to imagine how far both 3D & interactive surface technologies would have come just 2 years later. Both technologies are evolving at break neck speed (ala exponentially evolving technology trends) and looking to converge in “interesting ways” (as Kurzweil might say) …. ...

Evangelizing “Immersive Touch” 1

Aug

2009

“Immersive Touch” – the Direct Manipulation (via interactive surfaces) of 3D virtual learning content Past posts, Vision, and Work: * Edusim’s high order bits * Opening windows into learning worlds

Augmented Reality and “Plausible Copies” Revisited 1

Aug

2009

Being a big fan of augmented reality (ala Edusim) and “plausible copies” I found these video of SIGGRAPH presentations of etreme interest (via technologyreview) Touchable Holography Augmented Reality Augmented Reality Toys.v2 (Work in progress) from Frantz Lasorne on Vimeo. 3D Teleconferencing HeadSPIN: A One-to-Many 3D Video Teleconferencing System from MxR on Vimeo.

“Immersive Touch”, Edusim, and the Rumored Apple Tablet

Aug

2009

Will 3D virtual environments & worlds on the interactive surface (Immersive Touch) finally make it beyond Edusim with the rumored Apple Tablet? Analyst claims first hand knowledge of Apple gaming, home media center tablet (via http://www.9to5mac.com/apple-tablet-september-barrons) It could be a home media center, somewhat like the current Apple TV, and it could be a gaming machine, opines Jon ...