Super Smart Whiteboard Application

I had a very unique yet welcome happening the other day. My namesake, “Rob Fay” - a 16 year old living in Nottingham, England, decided to contact me. I had “Googled” my own name before to see if there were other “Rob Fays,” but I never decided to track them down. Well, I’m delighted that Rob contacted me.

Today I decided to check out his site and found an interesting find. I’m surprised I hadn’t stumbled across it sooner, but I believe it can inspire a company such as ours since we leverage whiteboard technologies with our learning curriculum. Check it out.

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Tags: [k12, MIT, whiteboard, smartboard, educational technology, education]

Adaptation for Virtual Learning

Everything Virtual (link to pdf)

I found an interesting article on requirements for virtual learning environments. 3 things were of particular interest.

#1 The concept of stretchtext. When a link is clicked, supplemental text is inserted (or removed) into the original text. I assume this could work for graphics as well. it allows for additional info without moving to another page and losing total focus and direction.

#2 The concept of a Virtual Student Clone. Students learn by teaching their virtual clone. Metrics can be derived from testing the clones learning. Really interesting concept.

#3 The importance of emotion for learning and how emotion can be included in a virtual environment.

(if the above link doesnt work — http://www2.iicm.edu/cguetl/papers/everything_virtual/everythink_virtual.pdf )