Crayon Physics

Crayon Physics

TipLine - Gate's Computer Tips Backchannel Discussion

Today Jim Gates from TipLine - Gate's Computer Tips gave a presentation to 175 science teachers I presume at a conference somewhere. He used CoverItLive to create a backchannel on his blog for the session and invited his readers to join the session through the backchannel. A guest blogger managed comments and posted key notes from his keynote presentation. What evolved was a wonderful dialog between educators. Joining the backchannel discussion I felt like I was there and the sharing that went on was amazing. One idea that was tossed around was that some of us who participated in the backchannel could host a Skype conference call where districts could share ideas. I think this could blossom into something wonderful and I am putting the call out there for other tech integrationists to join me in this. Each week we could get a group of us from around the country to gather and discuss tech integration for 30 minutes. Our call could be recorded and produced as a podcast. I would be more than happy to facilitate this and make the final edits of the audio if any of the attendees would contact me. Even if we started with just three or four schools we could make this thing go. Since no one else put their information out there in the live session I am placing an open invitation to contact me about this:

email: anderscj@yahoo.com
skype: canderson33

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Augmented Reality

This post is in response to a post that was made today at Muve Forward titled, "Virtual to Augmented to Holographic Reality." In that post Chris Topher shares with us the following video he found on YouTube regarding augmented reality:



Imagine the possibilities here. I have often pondered how such a mashup with the real world could happen and if in the future this will become commonplace. We are approaching, with this and what I will follow it with, very close to making some of the more awesome technologies from science fiction possible. Growing up, the one thing I wanted more than anything to become reality was the holodeck on Star Trek TNG. So, to follow with Chris' post, here are some things I have dug up in the past 6 months that blew me away along the same lines:





I also saw a video this fall on YouTube that I can seem to locate today that showed a Korean University student who put together a project that used three cameras to track the motion and capture the appearance of a person and import that image as the avatar in a virtual world. In other words, total visual immersion.

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