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11/2 draft meeting minutes
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We did informal updates on what the various groups are working on:
1.) Liz Wendland reported that the spanish language course the University of Minnesota built using croquet is now wrapping up - analysis of the user interactions will start soon and a paper about this learning Envionment has been accepted for the EDUCAUSE ELI conference in San Antonio in January. Lessons learned: some students had trouble due to ancient graphics cards, and while studnets were assigned to work together in groups they tended to not corrdinate when they visited the space. The developers at minnesota are continuing work on making a movie of the learning space, and porting the skeletal animations to the public open source codebase. 2.) Craig Latta passed on the news that John Dougan has found problems in the profiler in Croquet which he is looking into. It was suggested that Andreas might have some advice in this area. Craig's group has purchased a development license for the QWAQ forums product but is waiting on some documentation so not much activity is happening at this point while they wait 3.) Darius Clarke - the LA Barcamp event is tomorrow and he will be doing a show and tell about QWAQ Forums/Croquet 4.) David Faught is working on getting examples of avatars that work with Minnesota's skeletal animations. There was some question about where this sort of content could be distributed 5.) Mark McCahill - Duke will be hosting the open source croquet code repository - a machine is allocated for this and we just need to copy the source code over and then change the DNS entries. This should also make it easier to provide space for other sorts of content such as skeletal animation avatars that David Faught is working on. At EDUCAUSE last week Mark met with the Smartboard people and spent quality time playing with Croquet on a smartbaord. Ideally, we should come up with a weay to take better advantager of the multi-touch smartboards or gestures. While it is possible to user un-modified Croquet on the touch board, it is a little clumsy using functions on the second and their mouse buttons. Hopefully we can get access to a smartboard to put together a better UI option for this sort of device. Croquet is really fun to use when on a large touch screen... Mark P. McCahill Architect, Computing Systems Duke University - Office of Information Technology 334 Blackwell Street, Suite 2107 Durham, North Carolina 27701 USA [hidden email] +1 919-724-0708 (mobile) +1 929 668 2964 (fax) |
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Lise with Smarttech was very please to see you at Educase Mark ! ....
She emailed with some very kind words Fantastic! They will be showing Edusim Nov 11th in Nashville We are starting Teacher pilots in the classroom on their Smartboards using Edusim next week (did an informal training today and have been presenting it a bunch at local sup. & principal forums).... Might try to get your hands on a Mimio if the Smartboards are tough to come by - http://www.mimio.com ..... neat little devices with same basic functionality as the Smartboards (they run in the $500-$600 range if you already have the projector and connect to a regular whiteboard you may have already on the wall).... Should have some MImio/Edusim video out soon... and Teacher video as well. ================ On 11/2/07, Mark P. McCahill <[hidden email]> wrote: > We did informal updates on what the various groups are working on: > > 1.) Liz Wendland reported that the spanish language course the > University of Minnesota built using croquet is now wrapping up - > analysis of the user interactions will start soon and a paper about > this learning Envionment has been accepted for the EDUCAUSE ELI > conference in San Antonio in January. Lessons learned: some students > had trouble due to ancient graphics cards, and while studnets were > assigned to work together in groups they tended to not corrdinate > when they visited the space. > > The developers at minnesota are continuing work on making a movie of > the learning space, and porting the skeletal animations to the public > open source codebase. > > 2.) Craig Latta passed on the news that John Dougan has found > problems in the profiler in Croquet which he is looking into. It was > suggested that Andreas might have some advice in this area. Craig's > group has purchased a development license for the QWAQ forums product > but is waiting on some documentation so not much activity is > happening at this point while they wait > > 3.) Darius Clarke - the LA Barcamp event is tomorrow and he will be > doing a show and tell about QWAQ Forums/Croquet > > 4.) David Faught is working on getting examples of avatars that work > with Minnesota's skeletal animations. There was some question about > where this sort of content could be distributed > > 5.) Mark McCahill - Duke will be hosting the open source croquet code > repository - a machine is allocated for this and we just need to copy > the source code over and then change the DNS entries. This should > also make it easier to provide space for other sorts of content such > as skeletal animation avatars that David Faught is working on. At > EDUCAUSE last week Mark met with the Smartboard people and spent > quality time playing with Croquet on a smartbaord. Ideally, we should > come up with a weay to take better advantager of the multi-touch > smartboards or gestures. While it is possible to user un-modified > Croquet on the touch board, it is a little clumsy using functions on > the second and their mouse buttons. Hopefully we can get access to a > smartboard to put together a better UI option for this sort of > device. Croquet is really fun to use when on a large touch screen... > > > > > Mark P. McCahill > Architect, Computing Systems > Duke University - Office of Information Technology > 334 Blackwell Street, Suite 2107 > Durham, North Carolina 27701 > USA > > [hidden email] > +1 919-724-0708 (mobile) > +1 929 668 2964 (fax) > > > |
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