CollabrATEC

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

The class read through four narratives. 

First Narrative - Formula 1

Why should we buy this story?  Seeing things from different cultures adds to the overall experience.  Time shift collaboration is important when you need to meet a deadline.  How do you deal with the time difference?  Take shifts, collaborate once a day, different teams work on projects separately, then the Lead team puts them all together. 

“Around the World” has to be pumped up.  Add the Tier One component to this story.  Software needs to provide translation for foreign languages.  Use microslicing technology for recording collaboration.  Provide close captioning on replay.  Leslie … 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

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

edna Groups is a fully-featured collaborative toolset based on open source Moodle system software. Moodle allows educators to customize their online collaborative space with hundreds of modules.

TechShop bills itself as a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment. Their slogan “Build Your Dreams Here” focuses on the any time access to work on projects of your choice. Classes and Seminars are offered by those who know to those who wish to know, creating a collaborative learning environment. The founder, Jim Newton, believes it is a health club with tools and equipment instead of exercise equipment or as he calls it a Kinko’s for geeks. The idea is now franchising with another opening in North Carolina and up to ten more being created throughout the country.

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

Theater Lab  -  Sound Lab - Design Lab  - Motion/Capture Lab  -  Virtual Directory  -  Arcade Lab  -  Tele/Video Conference with Faculty (live time from remote access)  -  Recording Studio Lab 

Atrium/Reception Hall– Circulation Desk - Movie Theater – Cafe/Quick Stop – Arcade – Library – Gallery – Critique Spaces – Large Lecture Rooms - Small Collaboration Rooms – Individual Workspaces for Students - Offices for Faculty and Staff – LABS LABS LABS – Centralized Server/Hardware/Tech Support Area -

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/

The THUNDER Pro is a white board collaboration system.

You can learn more about this product and others at www.polyvision.com

You can read the Product Brochure (Warning PDF) for the THUNDER.

You can see a video demo (Warning Very Large) for the THINDER.

You can buy this product and may others from http://www.touchboards.com/polyvision/polyvision.html.

The instructor asked each individual what they would like to see showing the final presentation of this project. The following ideas were collected from all individuals in the class:

Final result = presentation
Current teaching techniques = future technology
Collaborate now on how to uese these tools
Classrooms need to improve even if you get inferior teachers with painful subjects. The goal is to teach and learn. The equipment available to the classroom can make it successful.

Campus Wide and even global collaboration should be a goal.

Find out how the students feel about their learning environment.

There should be freedom and mobility of the learning environment.

Survey … Continue Reading

Each group was asked to identify their role for the semester project. The following is what each group represented of themselves and what they hope to accomplish:

Presentation: Each class will be video taped
Interactive Presenation
Mock up of the environmental space
Studio Magic
Working knowledge of what GUI & Technology are doing
Flash Presentation or Video Tape

Technology: This group should sit in on Dean Terry’s class
How future technology can change the future classroom
Science Fiction - Technology
Changing what we presently have
ie: plug-ins

Environment:
Modifyable Classrooms
Lighting and Desk Orientation
Practicality vs. Showcase of Technology
Branding Space

GUI:
Visual Multimedia
Individualized
Brick and … Continue Reading

Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel demonstrates how their multi touch interface is capable of collaboration.