November ← 2010 ← Greenbush Labs

Quotes on Vision (From Blogging Innovation)

Nov

2010

A great piece from Blogging Innovation to share “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” – Jonathan Swift “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo “You don’t lead by pointing ...

AR & 3D Immersive Environments Presentation Material 11-27-2010

Nov

2010

Rich White: Immersive Ed. Design/Development/Research rich.white@greenbush.org Organization: Greenbush Education Service Center – http://www.greenbush.org Works: Cobalt / Edusim Edition – http://www.edusim3d.com Presentations: Immersive Education, Virtual Worlds, & Classroom Visualization Open Cobalt Alpha and the Interactive Whiteboard: Opening new worlds to your K-6 classroom ============================================================ Augented Reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality – “Overlaying virtual objects or data over real physical ...

Hands Free Avatar Navigation (IE Microsoft Kinetic) is Nothing New

Nov

2010

The “Kinect” frenzy has hit a fevered pitch … Its the next front in natural user interface design … and it nothing new … as as we know with Microsoft (or Apple for that matter), if they are doing it, someone else was doing it many years before …. in this case that someone was ...

iED K-12 Education Virtual Worlds Technology Workgroup Launching 2

Nov

2010

If you are interested in contributing to this work group please let us know when meeting would work best for you. The [DRAFT] charter document is locate here: http://goo.gl/BH0mU Fill out the survey [HERE] to provide feedback on prospective meeting times and dates !

Scratch Education Day – Topeka Video 1

Nov

2010

If you missed Scratch Ed. Day in Topeka, fear not ! We recorded all 5 hours of it for your viewing pleasure ! Video of First half Video of Second half

The Coming Age of the Natural User Interface in Education 3

Nov

2010

With interactive surfaces (on phones, and tablets) and gesture aware devices (like Microsoft Kinect) we are quickly approaching a tipping point for the Natural User Interface (NUI). Having spent the past four years designing prototypes that leverage the NUI in education it is more than a passing interest of mine, it is also nothing extremely ...

GreenbushLabs Turn 6 this Month

Nov

2010

6 years ago this month Greenbush Labs was launched. Greenbush Labs was started as a platform for me to log notes, evangelize the knowledge management affordances of the newer (at the time) Web 2.0 technologies, and to “brain dump” innovative educatioanl technologies. GBLabs warned of the coming social media wave (2006 post), the mobile media ...

A Few (biased) Immersive Education Observations From the Field: 2

Nov

2010

A few (biased) observations from the field: The ability to provide a rich contextual learning environment IS the primary affordance these 3D immersive environments provide (I strongly contend) …. and that highly immersive rich contextual learning environment, combined with visual hardware (ala a Mobile Immersive Learning Lab to provide even ra richer sense of “being ...