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| Microsoft Surface Light and Physics App for Kids at the Smithsonian Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:01 AM PST Microsoft Surface at the Smithsonian The Surface is located in the Smithsonian's Castle, and is part of "The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!" exhibit, which opened on Tuesday, November 9th (2010). Microsoft donated the Surface unit to the Smithsonian. Below is slideshow of the interactive exhibit: The video below provides a closer look at the applications created by Infostrat for the Smithsonian exhibit: RELATED New Interactive Exhibit Opens in Smithsonian's Castle, Bringing Light To Life Smithsonian News Release, 11/9/20 Josh Blake's post, Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com   | |||
| Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:59 PM PST Background: I first came across the work of Hungarian philosopher Kristóf Nyíri in 2003 when I was researching information related to a paper I was writing - "Thinking, learning, and communicating with multimedia". I had the honor of meeting Kristof Nyiri when I presented my paper at a conference in 2004 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where Kristóf Nyiri worked at the time. The conference, "The Global and the Local in Mobile Communications: Places, Images, People, Connections" was co-sponsored by T-Mobile and was part of the Communications in the 21st Century: The Mobile Information Society series of interdisciplinary conferences. I recently learned that Dr. Nyiri was involved in putting together an upcoming international conference hosted by the Visual Learning Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. This important conference is coming up very soon, on December 1st! Visual and interactive media technologies have come a long way since 2004. In my opinion, these technologies have the potential to create new, efficient, engaging, and meaningful ways for people to learn, remember, communicate, and share knowledge. I'm not alone in my thoughts regarding this matter, as you'll see from the topics that will be discussed at the VLL conference. For your convenience, I've shared some information from the Visual Learning Lab (VLL) website in this post. I encourage you to take the time to read the VLL mission statement, selected publications of some of the members of the VLL, and the abstracts of the presentations for the upcoming conference. The abstracts include short bios of the presenters. Be prepared to do some deep thinking when you read Kristóf Nyiri's publications! Mission Statement of the Visual Learning Lab "Although we naturally think in both words and images, educational theory has focused overwhelmingly on the verbal dimensions of teaching and learning. This is in part a reflection of the rise of book printing: pictures receded into the background, even in spite of efforts by Comenius and others to integrate them into texts created for educational purposes. In today's networked digital environment, however, images are easy to access, and can be handled just as smoothly as words. In response to the new challenges hereby created, the Department of Technical Education in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has established the Visual Learning Lab (VLL), with the goal of furthering the use of visual technologies -- including film, video, and interactive digital media -- in the teaching and learning process, and of engaging in high-level research on all aspects of visual education." VLL Publications (PDF)
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