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Alix R

Technology News: Privacy: The Trouble With Augmented Reality and Other Cool Tech - 2 views

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    • Alix R
      Alix R on 18 Apr 10
       
      this article brings up the downside of too much technology that could/will/is invading our privacy. It also mentions freedom of choice or customization. Most of the time when I thought of customization I thought of changing the color of something to My favorite color or re-writing something, or choosing how a teacher taught me to fit my learning style, etc... but this article brings up a valid point that collides new technology with privacy with customization. We are consumers and contributers to society should be able to choose what information we want shared with the world via facebook, twitter, Google Maps, etc. If augmented reality is going in a direction where it over lays our flickr photos onto the real world (Bing Maps) and allows us to view someones live video feed from the phone (Bing Maps) then we should chose whether we want that information shared or not....etc...
Stephanie K

Social Media Today | What is the Future of Open Content - 1 views

www.socialmediatoday.com/...106073

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shared by Stephanie K on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Stephanie K on 22 Mar 10
     
    Baraniuk is working on building global relationships with authors, educators and leaners so they can "create, rip, mix and burn" learning materials to a global open-access repository. He is creating a knowledge ecosystem that will empower anyone to take content and make of it what they want; to be translated into any language or to imbed any data which is updated in real time.
Vicki Davis

Google SketchUp - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 10
     
    So, I'm finally testing Google sketchup! They have some cool competitions for modeling your town and some examples on this website and also a link for educators to download the pro version of sketchup.
Vicki Davis

13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet | Magazine - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ff_tablet_essays

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shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Forget the netbook. It’s a slow, clunky piece of junk.
  • Ten years from now, we will look back at the tablet and see it as an end point, not a beginning. The tablet may turn out to be the final stage of an extraordinary era of textual innovation, powered by 30 years of exponential increases in computation, connection, and portability.
  • but there will be a steady decrease in radical new ways we interact with text.
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  • Think of them as windows that you carry
  • Brian Eno once famously said (in the pages of Wired) that the problem with computers was that there was not enough Africa in them. By this he meant that computers as we knew them could “see” only the wiggling ends of our fingers as we typed. But if they could see and employ the rest of our body, as if we were dancing or singing, we could express ourselves with greater finesse.
  • It overthrows the tyranny of the keyboard.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10
     
    Excellent information from some leaders in technology for those studying mobile computing and the implications.
Vicki Davis

JooJoo - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10
     
    Will the Joo Joo tablet pre-empt the itouch - not sure, but it sure looks cool and that it can surf the internet 9 seconds from being turned on is cool. Also looks to be an "e-book" type device as well. (Wonder if Amazon will make the kindle app on this device?)
Vicki Davis

joojoo Tablet Now Shipping | CMS Developer's Journal - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Fusion Garage announced that its category-creating joojoo Internet tablet has begun shipping from the factory today.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Mar 10
     
    More tablets heading to a place near you -- they call it a "category creating" Internet tablet - I'm not sure, but am still watching all these tools.
Katherine C

David Merrill demos Siftables - 0 views

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gesturebased video

shared by Katherine C on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
  • Katherine C on 22 Mar 10
     
    David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands.
Vicki Davis

Net Gen Education Challenge underway | Don Tapscott - 3 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Mar 10
     
    Don Tapscott shares his announcement on the NetGenEducation Project we're running again with him this year!
Ethan L

New Augmented Reality iPhone app aims to get London reading - iPod/iPhone - Macworld UK - 0 views

www.macworld.co.uk/...index.cfm

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  • Ethan L on 30 Mar 10
     
    This app for the Iphone and Itouch gives studens a cool new way for them to learn
Tanner B

Wondering what cool new technologies are on the Horizon? | Technology for Tea... - 0 views

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visual data analysis

shared by Tanner B on 30 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Data analysis is at the heart of many science and engineering fields, and so it is a topic of great interest here at WPI.  Visual data analysis is a field that uses modeling techniques to represent large data sets visually allowing the user or users to search for patterns and structures within the data.  Many visual data analysis tools are also on the horizon that will aid users in their data mining process.
Alex H

10 Reasons to Use Open Content in Teaching - 0 views

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shared by Alex H on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Alex H on 05 Apr 10
     
    This is an online slideshow that gives 10 reasons why Open Content is great for teaching and learning. The slideshow is 6 minutes, 42 seconds long and displays pictures that loosely relate to the points.
Alex H

Open Content's Higher Ed Calling - 0 views

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  • Alex H on 05 Apr 10
     
    Open content could become more mainstream in higher education this year. The movement holds great potential for the higher education space where the New Media Consortium (NMC)--which publishes The Horizon Report annually in collaboration with Educause Learning Initiative--identifies it as a trend whose adoption rate will be one year or less.
Alix R

Howstuffworks "How Augmented Reality Will Work" - 1 views

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shared by Alix R on 18 Apr 10 - Cached
  • It is also notable because the projector essentially turns any surface into an interactive screen.
  • gathers GPS coordinates and pulls data from the Internet
  • for example, if he picks up a can of soup in a grocery store, SixthSense can find and project onto the soup information about its ingredients, price, nutritional value -- even customer reviews.
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  • Layar then shows information about restaurants or other sites in the area, overlaying this information on the phone's screen.
  • Using your phone's GPS and compass, Monocle will display information about local restaurants, including ratings and reviews, on your cell phone screen.
  • Urbanspoon
  • Wikitude,
  • Yelp's Monocle
  • Wikipedia
  • Underlying most of these applications are a phone's GPS and compass; by knowing where you are, these applications can make sure to offer information relevant to you. We're still not quite at the stage of full-on image recognition, but trust us, people are working on it.
  • Total Immersion
  • makes software that applies augmented reality to baseball cards.
  • Move the card in your hands -- make sure to keep it in view of the camera -- and the 3-D figure on your screen will perform actions, such as throwing a ball at a target.
  • Consider a scavenger-hunt game that uses virtual objects. You could use your phone to "place" tokens around town, and participants would then use their phones (or augmented-reality enabled goggles) to find these invisible objects.
  • There's a "human Pac-Man" game that allows users to chase after each other in real life while wearing goggles that make them look like characters in Pac-Man.
  • Arcane Technologies
  • An AR-enabled head-mounted display could overlay blueprints or a view from a satellite or overheard drone directly onto the soldiers' field of vision.
  • has sold augmented-reality devices to the U.S. military.
  • Augmented reality still has some challenges to overcome. For example, GPS is only accurate to within 30 feet (9 meters) and doesn't work as well indoors, although improved image recognition technology may be able to help [source: Metz].
  • People may not want to rely on their cell phones, which have small screens on which to superimpose information.
  • SixthSense
  • augmented-reality capable contact lenses and glasses will provide users with more convenient, expansive views of the world around them.
  • Screen real estate will no longer be an issue. In
  • There is such a thing as too much information.
  • ust as the "CrackBerry" phenomenon and Internet addiction are concerns
  • an overreliance on augmented reality could mean that people are missing out on what's right in front of them.
  • Some people may prefer to use their AR iPhone applications rather than an experienced tour guide,
    • Alix R
      Alix R on 18 Apr 10
       
      So could Augmented Reality take away the need for some jobs?
  • privacy concerns. Image-recognition software coupled with AR will, quite soon, allow us to point our phones at people, even strangers, and instantly see information from their Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn or other online profiles. With most of these services people willingly put information about themselves online, but it may be an unwelcome shock to meet someone, only to have him instantly know so much about your life and background.
    • Alix R
      Alix R on 18 Apr 10
       
      this is where customization comes in. Since we share information that anyone can see on the internet about us, then is there a problem with someone viewing that information upon meeting us? Since they could have access to it anyway....So those who do not want their information viewed by certain people should have the option to become "unlisted" or to clock the information form being viewed by certain people, just as Facebook allows for us to do in their privacy settings. people will be able to customize what information they are allowing others to have access to upon meeting them.
  • Despite these concerns, imagine the possibilities: you may learn things about the city you've lived in for years just by pointing your AR-enabled phone at a nearby park or building.
  • If you work in construction, you can save on materials by using virtual markers to designate where a beam should go or which structural support to inspect.
  • Paleontologists working in shifts to assemble a dinosaur skeleton could leave virtual "notes" to team members on the bones themselves,
  • artists could produce virtual graffiti
  • octors could overlay a digital image of a patient's X-rays onto a mannequin for added realism.
Vicki Davis

What are you doing for National Volunteer Week? - grownupdigital - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 10
     
    Don Tapscott asks students and educators to share what they are doing for "national volunteer week" even if you are not in the USA- share what you're doing this month (Earth Day is coming up.) He's listening, let's talk and engage in conversation.
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