This page is a place for all of us to post something interesting, unexpected, or inspiring. 

 

This is an informal page, a bit of an experiment to see how well we can build a shared resource.

 

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For the World's Poor Children, This Computes: article by Wahington Post technology columnist Rob Pegoraro giving a favorable review to Intel's $225 laptop designed for schools in third world.  Whilej ust having a cheap laptop is far from "the answer" having powerful tools available to more people that are connected through more and more wireless networks opens possibilities.  - Dan

 

 

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Design Share:  A network of architects, planners, and educators interested in developing better school design ideas. - Dan

 

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Very cool graphic representation of internet technologies from a Japanese design firm:

Information Architects WebTrends

 

 

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Nice illustration from Wikipedia of the various computer display standards -- includes resolutions and aspect ratios - A J

 

Video Standards

 

 

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Something Interesting Page from Stanford's EDUC 303x Designing Learning Spaces Course.   A list of interesting things complied by 20 graduate students in Stanford's School of Education. 

 

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Tagcrowd: A page that will turn blocks of plain text into tag clouds:

 

 

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Improv Wisdom :

By Patricia Ryan Madson,  a nice read about improvising and how it can help all of us

 

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Here's the link to the commercial version of (part of?) the Interactive Room Operating System (IROS) that we saw today: TeamSpot.

- Richard Lindstrom

 

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Someone asked about whiteboard/projection wall surfaces. Walltalker is a vinyl material that goes on like wallpaper, and can be written on with whiteboard markers, and/or used as a projection surface: Walltalkers

- Richard Lindstrom

 

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Jeffrey Daniel Frey has a great blog site on podcasting. http://jdfrey.wordpress.com/tag/jeff-frey/

Mr. Frey spoke at the Educause SW conference this last winter and had some very good insights on 'best practices' for podcasting.

 

Kim Grover-Haskin

 

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Powerpoint Gettysburg Address

Many of you may have already seen this. I still think it's absolutely hilarious. Enjoy and pass on to others. - David E.

 

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If you are running a clinical simulation center/clinical skills center, you probably want to capture encounters with digital video for later evaluation. There are basically 3 main companies that do this (listed, essentially, from most expensive/most complete, to least): B-Line Medical, EMS, and WebSP. The systems handle the capture, management, and distribution of video, as well as managing evaluation checklists, interstation questions etc.

- Richard Lindstrom

 

 

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Flexibilty being one of the hallmarks of the DLS2007 session, I wanted to provide a link to a wireless keyboard/mouse/presentation remote solution we are now using in some spaces at UNLV.  We've recently deployed these in AV spaces in our President's Office, and a multi-purpose conference room for our Vice Provost for Information Technology. - A J

 

Wireless Computing

 

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Herman Miller makes some very comfortable stacking chairs with casters: Caper Chairs

 

- Richard Lindstrom

 

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And the Huddle Boards - (firefox wouldn't let me link properly) http://www.steelcase.com/na/huddleboard_products.aspx?f=12062. - David B.

 

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Along with writable surfaces... check out this interesting innovation in touch screen interface (especially the wireless integration with peripherals)...

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid932579976/bctid933742930

 

-Chris Moore

 

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