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Educomics - Using digital comics in the classroom |
Educomics is a European Union education project which will show educators how online comics can be used in the classroom. It has developed resource materials to support teachers in their use of digital comics. |
2 | 3 years 2 weeks ago |
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Nicholas Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia (TEDTalks) |
An inspirational video which follows Nicholas Negroponte in Colombia as he delivers thousands of little green OLPC laptops (One Laptop Per Child) to children in territory once controlled by guerillas. Up to this point half a million OLPC laptops have been delivered to children around the world. |
8 | 3 years 41 weeks ago |
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David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think (TEDTalks) |
Siftables are intelligent, cookie-sized digital blocks with little displays on them. These futuristic toys can do math, play music and can even be used to create stories all by moving around and re-arranging the blocks. |
107 | 4 years 14 weeks ago |
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Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks |
"Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer." |
740 | 5 years 6 weeks ago |
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Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote |
Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. |
2260 | 5 years 24 weeks ago |
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today |
"This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills." |
719 | 5 years 25 weeks ago |
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Android Demo |
Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK and demo applications on the Android platform. |
3279 | 5 years 28 weeks ago |
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Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote |
Using an IR led array and some reflective tape, you can track fingers in thin air using the Wii Remote by Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The grid software is a custom program written using a C# wiimote library and DirectX. |
1594 | 5 years 28 weeks ago |
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A Vision of Students Today |
What are some of the most important characteristics of students today? How do they learn and what do they need to learn? |
2501 | 5 years 32 weeks ago |
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OLPC XO Laptop prototype |
Matthew Hockenberry demonstrates the one laptop per child's fourth production prototype of the 'hundred-dollar laptop' at Siggraph 2007 |
209 | 5 years 41 weeks ago |
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Did You Know 2.0 - Technology and the Future |
A visual presentation of thought provoking statistics. This is an official update to the original "Shift Happens" video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, with updated statistics and a new design. |
2414 | 5 years 48 weeks ago |
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Digital Learners |
Only 28% of 12th graders in the US believe that schoolwork is meaningful. Only 39% believe that school work will have any bearing on their success in later life. What is missing? |
256 | 6 years 7 weeks ago |
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Gapminder - no more boring data |
TedTalks 2007. Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. |
199 | 6 years 19 weeks ago |
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Magic Paper demonstration |
Intelligent "paper" that understands the physics of objects being drawn. |
1238 | 6 years 35 weeks ago |
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Jeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction |
TedTalks 2006: Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the inventor of a Minority Report style "interface-free" touch-driven computer |
147 | 6 years 42 weeks ago |
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Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments |
Jefferson Han demonstrates the features of a multi-touch display which can make interaction much more efficient, intuitive and fun. |
994 | 7 years 15 weeks ago |
