University of Texas-Dallas professor gets $250,000 grant to develop game for students from the Pegasus News Wire.
The article explains that in the fall of 2010 the game being developed will be used by freshmen, transfer students and their parents to assist them with time and money issues.
http://www.pegasusnews.com/ is a great example of using socially created content to augment an advertising funded news media model.
The National Science Foundation recently announced approximately $5 Million in new grants to universities to access and continue research using the IBM/Google cloud computing cluster, bringing the number of universities with NSF Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program grants to 14. IBM and Google began collaborating on an IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative in 2007 to help computer science students gain the skills they need to build cloud applications. Now, the NSF is tapping the same cloud infrastructure to support university research in data-intensive computing in a range of scientific and engineering areas. For example, the … Continue Reading
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What is amazing to me is that most classrooms and even some virtual learning spaces are still designed with a type of learning in mind that is constrained, fixed and teacher-driven. That is, most classrooms still suffer from what I call “the fireplace” syndrome in which something has to be fixed to a wall (a blackboard, a white board, a projection screen, a smart board, etc.) and usually fronted by some sort of teacher desk or podium.
This can also be the case virtually according to how the … Continue Reading
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Elluminate this week introduced a new software tool designed to provide educators and students with live, collaborative video capabilities.
The new Elluminate VCS offers real-time collaboration tools and interoperability with existing videoconferencing tools. The multipoint video solution is designed to allow academic institutions to “leverage large investments in legacy videoconferencing infrastructure by including desktop PCs,” according to Elluminate. “Primarily a software solution, Elluminate VCS requires a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) server that operates exceptionally well on network speeds less than typical DSL connections and works with existing legacy H.323 infrastructure.”
The system offers … Continue Reading
If there’s a single most powerful benefit from using a collaborative software tool called ClassSpot, according to Stanford’s Menko Johnson, it’s this: It lets an instructor control multiple display screens in a classroom simply and cost-effectively. “That’s huge,” Johnson said. “Whenever you have a classroom beyond a single display, you enter a whole new environment of multiple computers displaying different things at the same time…. But how do you run this multimedia show without letting it take over the entire class?”
Johnson, who is currently an instructional designer and technologist at the … Continue Reading
University of Georgia Student Offers Inside Look at the 21st Century Campus
In science-fiction and fantasy books, seers and prognosticators usually are ancient men with white beards down to their knees. They wear cloaks. They carry scepters. Sometimes, they’re even wizards.
Andy Homrich, however, is … Continue Reading
Johnny Lee a student at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a low cost system for creating an interactive, multi-point whiteboard. He uses a pen light (infrared) for front or rear projected displays.
You can find out more about the low cost system at his website.
Sun Microsystems Online Collaboration System
Project Wonderland a toolkit for building online collaborative communities is available for download from Sun Microsystems. Sun is currently using this system to collaborate between workers in disparate locations. This virtual workspace has been said to house 50% of their workforce on any given day. The faculty at Ngee Ann Polytechnic University have used this toolkit to create a virtual campus and will be testing the system this fall.
The Microsoft Surface is an attempt to employ touch technology into the vendors portfolio.
However, are they really putting a sustainable effort behind this technology and are just hedging their bets by investing in N-Trig? Or do they see themselves behind the technology curve when it comes to multi-touch and have become just a part of the herd and why don’t they focus on the power of Multi-Touch technology for collaboration?
Daniel L. Goroff has written an interesting article “The Future of Higher Education: Technology and the College “.
This article compares the current state of education technology to the changes seen in naval technology with the advent of ironclads and steam power. An interesting comparison of the old guard to the neophytes.
This is a PowerPoint file.
Please view this flash presentation.
More photos from the visit to the Learn Lab here.
Steelcase Modular Learning System
An example of a collaborative classroom from Steelcase. There are digital whiteboards, overheads, multimedia and multiple computer access.
Great Image-(couldn’t get the image loader to work)
a larger setup than Richland, but gives a great feel of what the LearnLab looks like
http://www.pbase.com/image/90294319
Steelcase Introduces LearnLab™ Environments
Classroom of the Future Unveiled at the National Association of College and University Business Officials Annual Meeting
http://www.steelcase.com/na/steelcase_introduces_learnlab_News.aspx?f=25632
A New Learning Curve
Steelcase LearnLab™ Environments
http://www.360steelcase.com/e_000202838000035897.cfm?x=b11,0,w
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The presentation script is available for review in the wiki.
Please review and comment under the discussion tab.
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/eloyramirez/sets/39988/
that's a great idea
