LED lights in Augmented Reality and Cyborg HUD Technologies

I am currently working on a lighting project with Design and Technology students and have been spending some time researching innovative uses of lighting technologies. These two articles are amongst two of the coolest I have found. They are about the development of technologies that allow will for to projecting of images into the eye [...]

Creating Art from Data: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

This morning as I was preparing lunches for the day I watched this TED talk by Aaron Koblin and was both amazed and inspired. For me this short talk was particularly interesting from the fact that it is based on making use of data, the meaningless stuff, that can be collected or is created by [...]

Create Digital Texts From Your Blog with Anthologize

This morning I came across this blog by the ICT Guy. He has posted about some excellent ideas and resources. Here is an extract from his post about the use of Anthologize: “This is a wonderful opportunity for the thousands of educational sites currently using WordPress. It allow students and teachers to export their best [...]

A Blog for innovation and inspiration

This Blog belongs to Gary Hayes, a guy that has his finger on the pulse of many emerging technologies, especially those relating to multimedia and portable devices. His discussion of emerging social trends, augmented reality and some of the ideas he is/has worked on are innovative and inspirational. This is one blog worth checking.

Interactive Whiteboards: Leading us into the 21st century or chaining us to the past?

This is a very thought provoking set of slides used by Chris Betcher at a conference at the 2010 IWBNet conference on the Gold Coast. Thank you Chris for creating this resource. Interactive Whiteboards: Leading us into the 21…, posted with vodpod

Microsoft Photosynth

Here is an interesting little online toy I stumbled across again recently. I was first introduced to PhotoSynth when I took some students to the first Microsoft DigiGirlz event earlier this year. It is one of the tools being developed by Microsoft for people to upload pictures with which PhotoSynth will work its magic and [...]

Values Exchange – A place for ethical discourse

Late last year I was introduced to the potential of this great online resource. Values Exchange (VX) has been created as an online tool for the discussion of issues that explore ethics and personal value sets. When I first saw this I recognised great potential for use in the classroom, as a pastoral care tool [...]

Web 2.0 Educational Technology: Aviary

http://aviary.com/ We cannot always have access to our favourite image editing software and for this reason I see need for the availability and use of online applications. Aviary is one example of this. They offer an Image, Colour, Effects, Vector editors and other tools. There is great potential for these resources to be used as [...]

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com

Having spent the a while researching and working with the concepts of Virtual Realities, Virtual Worlds and Augmented realities I have found this clip to be very interesting. In its simplicity this augmented reality is about the massive cross-integration of images according to their metadata and image features. A fascinating concept that in the clip [...]

Social Media Explained Visually

A nice visual explanation of the development and use of Social Media. more about “Social Media Explained Visually“, posted with vodpod