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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ando Endano

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Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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    This video reports on one professor's use of Twitter in the classroom as a means for students to ask questions. Some students abuse the system, while the TAs are charged with answering the questions during class.
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Tech advances in the classroom -- baltimoresun.com - 1 views

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    Teachers in Baltimore give students hand-held input devices for test-taking (working link)
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YouTube - A Vision of Students Today - 1 views

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    This video has gotten more than 3 million hits. It portrays the perceived realities of higher education through the eyes of students, and questions the claim that technology will save education.
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Junaio - You - Here - Now - 1 views

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    Another AR app for the Iphone. Allows placing location based objects on screen which are then seen by others who visit the same location.
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Six Social Media Trends for 2010 - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org - 1 views

  • approximately 70 percent of organizations banning social networks
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    Harvard Business Publishing Online forcasts six trends in social media. "70% of organizations ban social media."
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How Will "Augmented Reality" Affect Your Business? - John Sviokla - HarvardBusiness.org - 3 views

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    Harvard Business Publishing makes five forcasts about the future of augmented reality.
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Future Vision - 0 views

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    Microsoft releases two promotional videos about education technology. These seem to be like the videos we watched during the first class in T561, except they showcase the use of current Microsoft products and their potential uses in education.
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The Barnes & Noble Nook reader to be revealed and available tomorrow for $259 - 0 views

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    Barnes and Noble releases the Nook, which is a competitor to the Amazon Kindle. It has E-ink on the top, and a color screen below.
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Pearson Makes Reading Assessment Software Available for iPod Touch -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    Reading assessement via Ipod Touch. Hope to see more of this.
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Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    This story is speculating on the viability of online learning like MIT Opencourseware, and discusses models for creating economically sustainable online learning models.
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YouTube - Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information (augearth) - 0 views

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    Augmented reality mashup with Google Earth Maps animates cars, pedestrians and football games on Google Earth.
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Free Ipods for course work at Abilene Christian - 0 views

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    Students at Abilene Christian were given free Ipods. Administrators hope to study how professors can integrate them into course instruction.
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Mscape - Get Out and Explore - 0 views

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    This program, Mscape by HP, allows users of Windows Mobile phones to create their own place-dependent AR experiences (games, guided tours, etc.) utilizing the internal GPS of the phone. Users can share and post their "Mediascapes" online and download Mediascapes created by others.
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Future AR Possibilities Video By HP - 0 views

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    Here is a dynamic video by HP forecasting future possibilities in the realm of AR, sort of in the same genre as the Microsoft video shown by Professor Dede in T561.
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Lifeplus - 0 views

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    AR experiment and research for archeological sites, utilizing a head mounted display.
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    AR experiment and research for archeological sites, utilizing a head mounted display
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YouTube - Second Life Avatar Enters the World - 0 views

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    AR experiment by Georgia Inst. of Tech. superimposing Second Life Characters in a real life office environment.
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    AR experiment by Georgia Inst. of Tech. superimposing Second Life characters in a real life office environment.
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YouTube - Vuzix Transparent Video Eyewear - 0 views

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    Vuzix is one company that is taking augmented reality to its next logical step: display screens built in to glasses. The glasses in this video layer 3D content on the view of the users surroundings when the user looks through the glasses.
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Mobile augmented reality: Reality, improved | The Economist - 0 views

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    This article from the Economist gives a background on augmented reality, and explores future prospects: 2D bar codes, the evolution of Google Latitude, the future compass enabled Iphone.
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Dean Kamen - Don't Tell Me It's Impossible - 0 views

  • “Don’t tell me it’s impossible,” he says, “tell me you can’t do it.” “Tell me it’s never been done. Because the only real laws in this world–the only things we really know–are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell’s equation–no, scratch that, the only things we really know are  Maxwell’s equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That’s all we know that’s true. All the rest are man’s laws…”
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    A quote from Dean Kamen, Inventor of the Segway, regarding innovation
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