June 2, 2011
Working in the Visualization Our world experience is increasingly being archived, indexed, and measured, and this massive quantity of information and data has a story to tell. But it is a foreign language to the human brain, columns and rows of data. Math courses taught us to manage numbers that come in the dozens. But ...
June 2, 2011
There are no magic buttons on the Internet. Conducting deep and revealing research over the global network involves strategy, uncovering clues, and investigating a digital landscap. This entertaining and practical presentation will demonstrate a number of obscure tips for searching the Internet including an approach called S.E.A.R.C.H. This presentation has expanded into the use of ...
June 2, 2011
MUVEs, or MultiUser Virtual Environments, have been around for many years, evolving from the text-based MUDs of the early 1990, to the rich graphical environments of popular video games like Halo and World of Warcrarft, and other virtual social worlds of work and play. Second Life, the most popular of these worlds, now hosts more ...
June 2, 2011
(cc) Flickr Photo by Will Foster “Edutainment” is a term that has frequently been used to describe computer applications designed to make learning funand the word has not always been used with the best intentions. In recent years, however, educators have begun to take a serious look at video games and the video game generation and ...
June 2, 2011
An Eye on Information Never before have the barriers between our classrooms and the world our children are learning about been so transparent. Overwhelming digital content, personal digital cameras, audio recorders, new information tools, and an emerging global conversation have combined to redefine the classroom — no longer the information-scarce environments of the last century. ...