Inspired by Scratch & Scratch4Opensim .. Powered by Waterbear ……. Scriptastic has taken shape over the weekend.  Plans are to add as many blocks as reasonable without having a confusing interface for the kids.  I think many adults may like its as well ! Hope over to http://labs.greenbush.us/scriptastic

For those with specific inquires to exactly what I do with students & immersive education, here is a bit of an overview. STUDENTS: Middle School Students from area schools ranging from 6th – 8th grade (50-80 students 8 hours each month for 6-7 months) SUBJECTS: Any, but technology use in particular – per the ISTE ...

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Scratch4Opensim (Scratch3D) We were at MIT last week and met for several hours regarding the Scratch4Opensim project.  We will start working on the new Scratch4Opensim (Scratch3D) this summer (thanks to Eric and the LLK group).  Eric Rosenbaum & the MIT LLK group has roughly 60% of the code complete for the new version and we ...

A Fun Little Scratch Experiment with the Scratch Flash Viewer “ScratchTastic” Hop over and give it a try … if you have an Android tablet let me know how it works and looks ! ! ! http://labs.greenbush.us/scratch/tastic.php

ScratchDroid Project Demos

Scratch project running on a Android Phone See the Scratch project on your Droid HERE ! - http://labs.greenbush.us/scratch/ScratchDroid

Immersive Education Kansas Conference July 29th & 30th – Please remember to fill out this form with your presentation details -http://goo.gl/0DI2U and circulate to anyone you think might be interested in presenting at the event.  Ill have a preliminary itinerary by the end of this week !   Also feel free to let anyone else know ...

The core iED:K12 group is busy once again this summer with various projects, conferences, and collaborations. Its looking like our ability of  taking the iED use cases to show/demo at ISTE 2011 is unlikely.  That being said  the iED:K12 group is already planning the Immersive Education Summit for Denver in the summer of 2012 ! ...

Let them eat cupcakes ….. This week we will be upgrading the Greenbush Grid to Opensim 0.7.1 & encouraging all users to move to the new Imprudence 1.4 viewer with Flash and Web on a Prim support. http://blog.kokuaviewer.org/2011/04/22/final-experimental-release-for-1-4-0-2011-04-19/

I have been tinkering with the idea of Scratch as an interactive whiteboard toolkit for a few years now and will finally have a IWB resource pack for teachers by mid summer that contains a folder full of mouse click script events commonly used for the Whiteboard as well as a bunch of sprites and ...

I am very happy to be able to share the overview Dr. Mary Leigh Morbey has given Edusim in the latest installment of the MIT Press Journal for Learning & Media.  The full piece is located here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ijlm_a_00058#h8 … with a sampling of text: An Open Cobalt implementation for primary education, the Edusim 3D interactive whiteboard, was developed ...