EduGeek Journal

Just finished reading a very interesting article published by the UCLA Magazine. Definitely information my colleagues and I have been proclaiming for the past several months. Hopefully this might help some of you in convincing your deans and admins that SL can be used effectively in education. Avatar Academics Is virtual reality the next frontier [...]

I recently listened to a podcast about Sprint’s announcement late last year that it is building a large-scale network of wireless technology called WiMax in major metropolitan areas such as Dallas, Boston and Denver. (More information can be found here.) In a nutshell, WiMax provides highspeed wireless internet coverage to very large areas. You can [...]

What is it about technology that seems to attract both the doom-n-gloom prophets as well as the hopeless optimists? I tend to think of myself as a realist. To the pessimists, I’m “too (bleep) cheerful” (fill in the ‘bleep’ with any colorful adjective – I’ve heard them all used there before), and to the optimists, [...]

Everything on the web seems to come with it’s own version number now. Even though most desktop-based programs have moved past that. Recently, education has even been given a version number online. Are you teaching education 1.0, or education 2.0? Don’t know the difference? Then I have the article for you. In a recent Innovate [...]

Ok, with a catch phrase like that I had to check it out. Let me preface this by admitting that I have never created a podcast before. I feel a bit guilty about this (I am a geek, what can I say)? After searching high and low (ok, maybe it took 10 minutes) for the [...]

This is something straight out of Sci-Fi, but it is for real. 3-D scanners have existed for a while, apparently, but now they are coming down in price. 3-D printers are still expensive, but something that is possibly coming to a place like Kinko’s soon. The New York Times had an article about this technology. [...]

I admit it — HCI was one of my favorite graduate courses that I took. (*If* I ever go on to work on my doctorate, this is what I’ll go into.) Anyway, I found this interesting paper that analyzes human-computer interfaces found in scifi movies. Very interesting read! Human Computer Interface in Science Fiction Movies [...]

In continuing with my earlier post about presidential elections venturing into the world of Web 2.0, I’d like to share with you an article I found yesterday. (From digitalmediawire) News Corp.’s MySpace has announced plans to hold a mock presidential election for the millions of MySpace users residing in the U.S. Results from the vote, [...]

The other day, my two year old daughter was riding in the car with my mother. The little one asked to hear “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter. My mother then spent the next 10 minutes explaining that she didn’t have an iPod and could only listen to the music that the radio station played. The [...]

Yep, Second Life’s version of Amsterdam has been sold for $50,000 on eBay. There are a lot of people surprised by this. Conventional wisdom begs the question, “Why would someone spend real money for an abstraction?” I answer the question with “Why not?” What is real money? Is it tangible? Sure, you can hold a [...]