Michael Wesch and Media Literacy

 
I went to see Dr. Michael Wesch present last week at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. While his name may not yet be a household word, his viral video on YouTube, “The Machine is Us,”  may very well be. Published in February 2007, the video has received 3,634,385 hits on YouTube, as of this morning. 
Wesch is back [...]

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Sun’s MPK20 Virtual Workplace and Open APIs

Ok, another post on virtual worlds and immersive learning environments. Sorry, but this is a huge focus of my work these days, and I’m going to be pit bull-esque on this topic, for a while. 
I just came off of a couple of days this week filled with meetings and discussions having to do with 3D virtual worlds. In fact, I had [...]

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Virtual Worlds Catching on in Workplace

Here’s a link to an article posted just today by the San Jose Mercury News, naming the various contenders in the virtual world domain.
 A quick excerpt:
“Computers may need to be more powerful. During a presentation last month, Intel senior fellow Justin Rattner estimated that a virtual, 3-D environment could require a 100-fold increase in the computational [...]

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