CollabrATEC

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.

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

http://360steelcase.com/

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind.html

Here is the link to the Business Week article written in 2000-

http://www.businessweek.com/archives/2000/b3711099.arc.htm#B3711100

Quoted highlights applicable for this class are (in my opinion)-

…producing armies of graduates who are comfortable with the latest gear and trained to use it on the job. Wired universities beget a wired nation

 Among CMU’s digerati, public enemy No. 1 is the old-fashioned lecture, where a scholar stands before hundreds of snoozing students and drones on for an hour or two. For them, the chief role of technology is to help end boredom. “In the future, learning … Continue Reading

I do not know if this is also due today at noon, but I will be interviewing freshman in a class at 2:30 today (Friday, 10/24/08), so will not be able to post until I have that information.

By Heather Green for BusinessWeek Oct. 27, 2008
It’s a given that young people live in a high-tech world. For details, take a gander at some of the data compiled by Peter Schilling, who heads the IT department at Amherst College in Massachusetts. His IT Index, as he dubs it, shows, for example, that just 5 of 1,680 students—0.3% of the school’s enrollment—have landline phones, compared with 82% of Americans. The data also capture emerging tech preferences. Freshmen (average family income: $76,183) make … Continue Reading

From our notes- a list the technology group started earlier in the semester on today’s topic- thought it might be something to build on- just an FYI of something we had already started to put together-

I cannot get the spacing right on this when I publish from copying and pasting my notes- it looks fine in this edit window, yet the spacing is off when I publish- sorry- can’t make it work correctly

Those who use the building

• students
• teacher/faculty
• administrators
• clients/guests

… Continue Reading

Developers Toolkit- Conducting a Needs analysis-

I pulled this during class-skimmed and it does talk about the learning environment- hope it is applicable and helpful if needed

http://saulcarliner.home.att.net/id/overviewneedsanalysis.htm

Here is a wikipedia article on needs analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needs_analysis

Obscura Digital, the bright minds behind Google’s 360 degree video domes, have debuted a multi-touch hologram system that can be used by multiple people at the same time.

You can learn more about what Obscura Digital is doing right now on their out-of-the-lab blog.

Rewritable Holograms

University of Arizona optical scientist, Savas Tay, created a three-dimensional holographic display that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes. The device is said to have uses in the industrial and medical fields, however, the Air Force is very interested in using the technology for military applications and seems willing to pay for it.

Seattle Pacific University is using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro to relaize real-time communication and collaboration in their engineering program.

Keith Harrison-Broninski’s lecture, A Software Framework for Human Interactions, at Javapolis concentrates on agile software design. This lecture focuses on human interaction management and how a software framework can assist in creating new tools for these interactions. This includes screen shots of humanedj a set of eclipse plug-ins for collaboration.

Parleys.com

The Parleys.com site, where this lecture is hosted, is an excellent example of online collaboration and learning. This site utilizes the latest technology, including Adobe Air, to display lectures and slides at the same … Continue Reading

http://socialmediaclassroom.com/

Social Media Classroom

Invitation to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory
Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory.  It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value.  The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use … Continue Reading

Here are 2 examples of how people are collaborating over the web-one is a writing project, the other a video project- it could give us ideas on virtual collaboration and ways to teach these subjects in ATEC

One Million Monkeys Typing- A Collaborative Writing Project

http://www.1000000monkeys.com/

Root Clip- “We did the first chapter, it’s your job to finish”

http://rootclip.com/

collaborationplatformprototype92708
Class presentation from 9-27-2008.

More 3D TelePresence Articles:
Duffie White Article:
http://www.telepresenceworld.net/News/3DTelepresencesm.pdf
 
Cisco Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/technology/29video.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Telepresence&st=cse&oref=slogin

Sphere is an interactive spherical display prototype that uses custom optics hardware as well as computer vision and graphics software to enable interaction on a spherical surface. 

http://research.microsoft.com/~benko/projects/sphere/

BumpTop is a three dimensional interface that seeks to use the paradigm of a real world office to manage your file system. Using a propriety physics engine BumpTop mimics objects in the real world and uses self revealing gestures to interact with these objects.
This video demonstrates it’s intuitive interface.

Watch this video for a less dry and more realistic use of this technology

Conversely, some don’t feel this a real world, intuitive interface