All Blog Posts Tagged 'interactive' (29)

'Inanimate Alice' and Teaching English

In the past few months 'Inanimate Alice' has made great progress in reaching out to educators around the world. The Education Packs associated with the series have been accessed from 35 countries. These are available at http://www.inanimatealice.com/education/index.html

'Inanimate Alice' is a born-digital fiction, an interactive story for kids growing up in the videogame generation. About an hour of on-screen time and associated material makes for an in-depth look at what the digital… Continue

Added by Ian Harper on February 18, 2009 at 4:39pm — No Comments

Links to my recent blog posts about interactive information visualization, the World Economic Forum, and more...

I'd like to share links to some of my recent blog posts:

Posts related in some way to the current economic crisis:

Back to Basics: The Future of Baniking and Finance Discussed at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

The Values… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on February 1, 2009 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Digital Storytelling Platforms and Multiple Perspectives: A look at the work of Jonathan Harris- Food for Thought for Interactive Timeline Design

I'm in the process of creating an interactive time-line, and as I revisited my links and bookmarks, I came across a link to a video of Jonathan Harris discussing his ideas regarding digital storytelling, overlapping threads, and multiple perspectives.

I posted a couple of video presentations along with links to his interactive projects that are on the web on my Interactive… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 24, 2009 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Multi-Touch Interactive Desk from Durham University

Originally posted on my blog

Yesterday I visited Durham’s Technology-Enhanced Learning Research group who had invited me to see their multi-touch interactive desk that hit the headlines recently. It was in fact my Mum who sent me a newspaper clipping about the device and following my TeachMeet presentation Dr Liz Burd invited me to visit.

It is always thrilling to see… Continue

Added by Tom Barrett on November 9, 2008 at 7:57am — No Comments

Edusim Alpha 06 - virtual world for the classroom interactive whiteboard: Ready for Download

Latest version and video tutorials are here: http://edusim3d.com

Cheers,
Rich
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Added by Rich White on October 8, 2008 at 8:11am — No Comments

Idea for an interactive timeline project based on the series of events related to our current economic crisis

To help me understand the complexity of our economic crisis, I decided to search for information from the past that might have contributed to the current set of events. The Celestial Economic Sphere, DataViz for the Finance Biz, Truthiness, Behavioral Finance & Greed is the title of the post (long) that I wrote in response to the economic crisis.

As I dug up material for my post, it occurred to… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on September 27, 2008 at 12:23pm — 6 Comments

Link to recent posts: Cognitive Bursts, Use of digital media with students with autism spectrum disorders, etc.

Here are some links to a few of my more recent blog posts:

New Interactive Technology: Tag Galaxy, Windows 7, PaperVision 3D, Microsoft Surface, Touch Screens, and Blog Posts Revisited.

Cognitive Bursts; Sense of Self: Assisting young people with autism spectrum disorders… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on July 9, 2008 at 9:08am — No Comments

VisuWords is a free online graphical dictionary that is an excellent resource for language development and language support. You can type any word into the searchbox or click on Random to view random…

VisuWords is a free online graphical dictionary that is an excellent resource for language development and language support. You can type any word into the searchbox or click on Random to view random words defined. The site then searches for related words and then produces a user-friendly diagram. Each node in the diagram is clickable to view a definition of that word or double click on the node to expand the search for that particular term. In the example… Continue

Added by Kylie Stewart on June 13, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Promethean in the Classroom

Some of our teachers were recently awarded Promethean Boards for their classroom. With few in our Parish, we are looking for a few good sites and teachers that have used and found success with these boards. If you have such experience, share, share, share!!! We have some wonderful teachers, with awesome ideas that will create, create, create!!

Added by Olivia Krause on April 12, 2008 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment