NJEDge.Net 11th Annual Faculty Best Practices Workshop
Thanks to everyone who came to see my talk this morning at the NJEDge.Net Faculty Best Practices Workshop! As promised, here’s a link to my presentation (”Emerging Interfaces in Education: How Augmented Reality, Social Computing and Mobile Devices will change the way we Teach, Learn and Play“) Be warned, some elements of the presentation may not load quickly – it weights in at about 30mb due to a fair number of embedded videos. In addition, here is a listing of websites that I referenced during the presentation:
Mobile Computing
- Poll Everywhere: Create your own web-based poll that lets students vote using SMS text messages sent from their mobile phones. Poll Everywhere polls can easily be embedded into your existing PowerPoint slides.
- Text Marks: Set up SMS text messaging distribution lists.
- PhotoSynth: View and construct rich 3D walk-through scenes using a collection of static photographs (note: you can view a PhotoSynth on any computer, but you need a PC in order to build one yourself)
- Qik and Ustream: Live video streaming apps that turn your mobile device into a live video camera that can be broadcast out to anyone watching on the web.
- Google Maps: Construct your own geo-referenced maps that can be displayed on the web or on a mobile device.
- Next Exit History: A joint project by the Universities of West and South Florida that allows you to discover more about Florida’s history using geo-referenced video and audio clips.
- NOAH (Networked Organisms And Habitats): “Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere”
- Historic Earth: “Drawing on the world’s largest online collection of geo-coded historic maps, Historic Earth allows you to virtually travel back through time in many locations”
- Drop.io: Gives you a free 100mb file sharing space in the cloud. In addition, all drop.io sites come with their own telephone number, allowing you to call your drop from any phone to record an audio message that will instantaneously be converted into an MP3 file. Drops can be subscribed to just like any other RSS feed, allowing you to create ad-hoc podcasts on the fly.
- Instapaper: Add a “read later” button to your Firefox toolbar that automatically sends a copy of any website – including images – to your mobile device for later reading.
- ChaCha: Text any question to Cha Cha (242-242) and receive a response from a real live human in under 5 minutes!
- Pandora: Provides you with a customized Internet “radio” station of music that fits your individual tastes.
- Midomi: A music search engine that lets you identify a song by humming or singing
Augmented Reality:
- Zooburst Augmented Reality Pop-Up Books
- Live demo: Earth / Moon
- Live demo: Solar System
- Live demo – Labyrinth Physics
- Live demo – Catch a Star (Assistive Tech) (motion tracking augmented reality)
- Live demo – Virtual Gardener (color tracking augmented reality)
- The Whisper Deck: A voice-controlled augmented reality search engine
- SimSnails: An augmented reality ecosystem that helps kids learn about and experiment with the concepts of directional selection and evolution.
- Frontline Digital Nation (PBS)
- Topps Baseball Cards in Augmented Reality
- Live demo – Plug into the Smart Grid (GE):
- Esquire Magazine – Augmented Reality Edition
- Hallmark Augmented Reality Greeting Cards