Melanie D.G. Kaplan recently interviewed Anthony Bailey, vice president of Emerging Technology for ESPN. He oversees ESPN’s Emerging Technology that team develops broadcast-related technologies. The team developed the Virtual Playbook and Snap Zoom viewers see on ESPN sports event broadcasts. Bailey describes how these and other emerging tech products came about. A great, quick interview [...]

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Nina Merrill, a student intern, posted on the Bon Appetit Management Blog a description of how she developed the Carbon Foodprint Game, hopefully, for young people. What a great idea and easy resource for use in classrooms, including high school biochemistry. I wonder how it works in middle schools? Seems like it should. Hmm, I [...]

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That Was Quick: Already, A Fund For iPad App Developers | mocoNews That Was Quick: Already, A Fund For iPad App Developers | paidContent:UK UK’s Northern Film and Media launches Apple iPad fund Artists taking the lead | Challenging artists to use the nation as a blank canvas. Artists taking the lead, part of London [...]

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Project FROG improves student performance with new hi-tech buildings. Studies have shown that the educational environment can enable students to perform up to two grades better. Mark Miller, founder of Project FROG is constructing buildings that better use natural daylight, manage glare and acoustics, and circulate fresh air. He builds with recycled materials, creates 80% [...]

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Scientists have developed a digital image-processing algorithm that allows for the capture of full-color images at night by a car moving at speed, Eric Warrant has compared these specialisations in different species of beetle, and also in bees and moths that fly at night. Now, with the help of a couple of mathematicians and Toyota’s [...]

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Orange Bus Contact Digital design agency in NE QURIOS : Specialists in 3D Animation, Visual Effects, (VFX), & Architectural Visualisation. – Contact – With offices in London and Newcastle, Qurios produce Award winning Animation and VFX for Television, Feature Films, Computer Games and the Web.

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Liverpool Philharmonic : Homepage : Live music concerts, tickets & what’s on Brilliant website and social networking connections used effectively to share what's going on. The Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7) :: Scottish Enterprise Projects supported by FP7 tend to be collaborative, encouraging European organisations to share their resources and expertise to [...]

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TapTale is a new iPhone and iPod Touch app designed as a prototype to help learners build confidence in their creative writing. The Times Education Supplement talks this week about the app, one of the newly launched products whose development I led as Commissioner at Channel 4′s Innovation for the Public Fund, working with Derek [...]

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Scientists behind “games cause rickets” deny a specific link | Games Brief Promoting literacy comes to a screen near you – News – TES Connect With a tap here and a tap-tap there, pupils can create interactive stories on their iPhone or iPod Touch devices and have others read them online

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The 31st annual International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference is scheduled for June 27 – 30, 2010, in Denver. Check out important dates for this premire support of Tablet and other mobile PCs and devices in schools. Important dates

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