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Martin Burrett

Eyes on the Earth - 8 views

climate.nasa.gov/Eyes

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shared by Martin Burrett on 14 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 14 Jan 12
     
    Track satalites and the Internation Space Station, see visiual data about the Earth and so much more with this 3D Virtual Earth.
Vicki Davis

Exploration Design Challenge | NASA - 6 views

www.nasa.gov/edc

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Sep 13
     
    All students and educators participating in the challeng will have their name flown on the Exploration Flight Test-I mission as a member of the virtual crew. This mission will be unmanned and will launch in late 2014. So, kids can be a "virtual explorer." There are 4 challenges, age appropriate, to help design protective radiation protection for astronauts. We need to get students interest in space travel for a variety of reasons. This is a lovely real world project for students to join or could be a project for one of your #geniushour teams. "The goal of the Exploration Design Challenge is for students to research and design ways to protect astronauts from space radiation. NASA and Lockheed Martin are developing the Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit and on to an asteroid or Mars. Protecting astronauts from radiation on these distant travels is an important -- and very real -- problem that needs solving. NASA would like your help!"
Ted Sakshaug

sciencecourseware.org - 14 views

www.sciencecourseware.com

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 25 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 25 Jan 11
     
    The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms.
Fred Delventhal

DEN Blog Network » Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Trip Application Now Open! - 0 views

blog.discoveryeducation.com/...ilot-trip-application-now-open

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shared by Fred Delventhal on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 24 Feb 09
     
    A virtual drum roll please… We are thrilled to officially open the application process for the Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Program. Join us as we discover more of our incredible planet earth together with adventure trips to Australia, South Africa, and China. In order to participate in this pilot trip, you must be a STAR Discovery Educator. Not only are you able to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity, each STAR selected will be able to choose four of their students to join them on the adventure! This is at no cost to you or your students! So with no further ado… here's the official wording and post importantly the link to apply.
yc c

The KDE Education Project - Marble - 0 views

edu.kde.org/marble

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shared by yc c on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 03 Apr 09
     
    Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.
Ruth Howard

High Scalability - High Scalability - The Amazing Collective Compute Power of... - 4 views

highscalability.com/...ower-of-the-ambient-cloud.html

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shared by Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Earlier we talked about how a single botnet could harness more compute power than our largest super computers. Well, that's just the start of it. The amount of computer power available to the Ambient Cloud will be truly astounding.
  • By 2014 one estimate is there will be 2 billion PCs. That's a giant reservoir of power to exploit, especially considering these new boxes are stuffed with multiple powerful processors and gigabytes of memory. 7 Billion Smartphones By now it's common wisdom smartphones are the computing platform of the future. It's plausible to assume the total number of mobile phones in use will roughly equal the number of people on earth. That's 7 billion smartphones. Smartphones aren't just tiny little wannabe computers anymore either. They are real computers and are getting more capable all the time.
  • One Google exec estimates that in 12 years an iPod will be able to store all the video ever produced.
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  • But all the compute power in the world is of little use if the cores can't talk to each other.
  • Inductive chargers will also make it easier to continually charge devices. Nokia is working on wireless charging. And devices will start harvesting energy from the surroundings. So it looks like the revolution will be fully powered.
  • . Literally billions of dollars are being invested into developing a giant sensor grids to manage power. Other grids will be set up for water, climate, pollution, terrorist attacks, traffic, and virtually everything else you can think to measure and control.
  • . Others predict the smart grid could be 1,000 times larger than the Internet.
  • Clearly this technology has obvious health and medical uses, and it may also figure into consumer and personal entertainment.
  • What if instead smartphones become the cloud?
  • In the future compute capacity will be everywhere. This is one of the amazing gifts of computer technology and also why virtualization has become such a hot datacenter trend.
  • It's out of that collective capacity that an Ambient Cloud can be formed, like a galaxy is formed from interstellar dust. We need to find a more systematic way of putting it to good use.
  • Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10
     
    digital citizenship headed for the clouds...
Martin Burrett

Virtual Volcano - 24 views

dsc.discovery.com/...interactive.html

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shared by Martin Burrett on 27 May 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 May 12
     
    A good interactive stimulation of a volcano. Change the settings and see how the eruption changes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
anonymous

Dual Maps: Google Maps, Street View and Virtual Earth in an embeddable control - Mashed... - 13 views

www.mashedworld.com/DualMaps.aspx

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shared by anonymous on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 03 Nov 09
     
    Sometimes something is just so geeky that I just LOVE the concept. This is one of those. Dual Maps shows side-by-side maps of Google maps and Microsoft maps.
  • anonymous on 03 Nov 09
     
    I LOVE the concept here. What can we learn by looking at a location from two different maps?
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