Shift Happens.Education & Technology.Wake Up!
Video posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008
Be prepared! The world has been changing exponentially and will continue to do so. Will you keep up? Are we preparing our children? This video demonstrates the dramatic change in demographics and how the growth in technology and information will impact us now and in the future.
Earthship: Self-sufficient homes
Video posted on Friday, August 01, 2008
Earthships: Future-proof buildings - sustainable, self-sufficient homes — and the 50 or so that are scattered outside the New Mexico town of Taos, constitute the Earthship Greater World community. As Michael Reynolds says: “If water is falling from the sky, and it is on the majority of the plant, it’s crazy not to catch it.” [...]
Design Coding
Video posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.
Spore: Overview Video
Video posted on Monday, July 14, 2008
Take an overall look at Spore with its creator Will Wright! Get an idea of what Spore is all about in this video featuring an interview with Will Wright and brand new gameplay footage spanning all the stages of Spore. Spore available in stores September 2008.
Alice: Programming for a New Generation
Video posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming [...]
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Video posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, one of which recreates the functionality of a digital whiteboard, a powerful yet expensive educational tool. Lee’s implementation offers “80% of the functionality for 1% of the cost.” He then demonstrates a head-tracking method for creating a fake 3-D effect from a regular TV. Also check out [...]
How private is YouTube?
Video posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Following a ruling ordering YouTube to turn over user data to Viacom, privacy concerns mount.YouTube must turn over information about its users as part of a lawsuit from Viacom. The move has outraged electronic privacy advocates. Bobbi Rebell reports.