Author Archives: Steve

Here’s a story about an American International School in China that is using Opensim-based virtual worlds to teach programming and other STEM content. Sounds like the students get pretty excited.

There’s little question that, for some of the greatest educational benefits of immersive media to be realized, there must be an educational culture that fits. Here’s a great example of how one school district — Mooresville (NC) — is taking … Continue reading →

Watch this video of the TeachME teaching simulation now housed at SimHub: http://www.wyff4.com/video/27550193/detail.html Great job, Helen!

Here’s an interesting twist on telecommuting and videoconferencing … Anybot is a mobile video-conferencing solution that allows remote participants to have a physical presence with others, and also to exert a bit more agency over what one sees during a … Continue reading →

The latest app for Augmented Reality? Apparently, pitching movies by placing AR-enabled cards on cereal boxes: According to mashable.com: The food giant is stocking more than 26 million cereal boxes in 53 countries (though not the U.S.) with augmented reality … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting story (thanks, D. Snipes!) detailing how UMBC is using agile, groupwork-oriented spaces to encourage deeper and more meaningful learning in math, science, and engineering: Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Amazing how quickly folks are progressing here … this is a video from the Institute of Creative Technologies @ the University of Southern California, demonstrating the use of Microsoft’s Kinect system to control a Second Life avatar using hand- and … Continue reading →

Here’s a really good piece from Maria Korolov on the emergence of Opensim as a viable VW platform for educators. She describes the draw of Opensim — compared to Second Life — and offers examples of how K-12 schools and … Continue reading →

This is pretty amazing stuff. A doctoral student @ MIT has connected a Kinect gesture-based interface device to a roomba — the combined affect is a robot that can “see” and that can be directed using simple gestures. The researcher … Continue reading →

Here’s a neat video of Harvard Professor Chris Dede describing their EcoMUVE project — using a blended virtual world/physical world model of using pond ecology to teach kids about science — and about complex causality. As Dede notes, this is … Continue reading →