Canada is using educational TV to encourage civilians to get volunteer for charities or organizations. Watch a documentary, get inspired, join and follow the organization- then include your friends and family! This is truly education tv that gives the opportunity for action to better our world!
A proposed London based movie that will incorporate social networking and an alternate reality game. The creative director's plan is to "remove people from their passive positions at their computers and bring them close to the action"... They plan to use "blogs, YouTube, GPS, telephone, secret meetings, IM, auditions... role-play, cinema, and music" to pull viewers into real life interactions.
Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable, multi-touch and pressure-sensitive
computer screen interface.
From the makers of interactive whiteboards comes "Smart Table," a touch-sensitive learning station for group collaboration.Check out the video now -- official press release on 10/23.
A Dutch psychologist says that software's guidance can cause us to be passive and less able to solve problems that groups that use just paper and pencil.
Dissertation abstract is here:
http://en.scientificcommons.org/30004846
This article shares about a pilot project in Britain's classrooms where interactive desktops serve as interactive computer screens sensitive to the touch of several students simultaneously.
School pupils are trying out desks with interactive screens that can
recognise more than one person's finger presses.
Links to games that deal with social issues; including Play the News and Free Rice. Warning: Free Rice is addictive!!!