A friend of mine sent me a link to some research at Microsoft that would let you bend/twist/stretch or even squeeze your computer as an input. Sounds pretty sweet…
Not quite haptic, but still a step in the right direction with more natural input method’s!
10 Apr, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Instructional Technology
This morning a colleague of mine, Derek Rodriguez, e-mailed about the launch of a new Triangle Research Libraries Network Search Engine he has been working on for quite a while. It has some really cool features enrichment features for each search:
Book Covers
Table of Contents
Summaries
First Chapters
Audio/Video Track Listings for items published since 1984.
Right now there [...]
On a personal note… as many of you may know, I am a TarHeel… that is to say I work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Our beloved basketball team had a great year, but fell at last to a great Kansas squad this past weekend. This past week we were sitting [...]
04 Apr, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Gaming| Second Life
Okay, technically it is only a subcommitte of Congress… but still… a meeting in second life. I’m not sure if I should be afraid, or excited… what do you think?
04 Apr, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Digital Learners| General| Web 2.0
This morning I came across an interesting article about book publishing in the future. Apparently Penguin Books is doing an experiment called “We Tell Stories” with delivering six different books through six different medium channels over the next six weeks. The first two are already done… Google Maps for the first week and a Blogging/Twitter [...]
Neil Hokanson tagged me for a Meme to create a digital quilt of our passions. The rules for this Meme are as follows:
Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give [...]