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20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have
During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. Whether you are involved in higher ed, secondary ed, elementary ed, or special ed, all of us find it difficult to catch up, keep up, and put up with fast-moving computer-based technology. http://thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A5387.cfm
AI Seduces Stanford Students
Researchers at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab strapped 69 student volunteers into an immersive, 3-D virtual-reality rig, where test subjects found themselves sitting across the table from a "digital agent" – a computer-generated man or woman. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67659,00.html
Augmented Reality, Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall
Georgia Tech University researchers are working to meld virtual and physical reality together, which will enhance the ways people interact with and perceive the world around them. By Michelle Delio. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/wo/wo_delio021505.asp?trk=nl
Can Machines Read Body Language?
Human communications depends heavily on nonverbal cues; that's often the best way to tell when someone is annoyed, or tired, or pleased. In contrast, it's often impossible to know from looking at it whether a robot is processing data, awaiting instruction, or in need of repair. Now, researchers from Switzerland and South Africa have designed a visual interface that would give autonomous machines the equivalent of body language. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_061804.asp?trk=nl
Controlling Graphics with Pressure
Researchers from the University of Toronto are proposing to add a new dimension to the clickable graphics that appear on computer screens: pressure. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_062104.asp?trk=nl
The Dream of a Lifetime
Doug Engelbart and augmenting human intellect. By Bill Joy http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/issue/review_dream.asp?trk=nl
Editing Films for Very Different Trailers
With some keen-eyed editing, you can create a trailer for a film that's very different from what the movie is usually seen to be about. For example, a brilliant chap grabbed and mixed slices from a classic horror film, The Shining, and the result is... a romantic, family-oriented, feel-good comedy. This was done for a contest, as discovered on Making Light, and you can enjoy entries by other geniuses: Titanic as horror film, West Side Story as zombie attack. http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2005/10/editing_films_f.html
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