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I told the science and English/history teachers I work with about these two new apps from GoogleLabs. Now I imagine they are spending their ...

 My 7th grade students are building models of microscopic things they are studying in science class in our sim. The science teachers said th...

I know, silly title. Here’s my main question: Are virtual worlds effective environments for the presentation of dramatic arts? Maybe some ge...

Created by my 9th graders! What I love about this is the experience of cramming all the electronics inside a box. They even routed the IR be...

Performed by two 8th grade students. Note my atrocious camera work. But my excuse is we can so much with tech in education; it's just s...

Many times during my work with students in HewittSim unexpected things happen. Once a student accidentally attached an 8 foot tall mushroom...

We just finished our first go-round with the 8th graders' dramatized scenes in our sim. Some videos will come soon, but I wanted to pu...

Gleason Research released a new sensor to use with their Super Cricket microcontroller . It's an infrared distance sensor , which got...

I'm much more excited about what people are doing with Kinect than what Kinect is made to do out of the box, no matter how Microsoft fee...

Our K-12 school was immersed for a week in activities revolving around Sophocles' Antigone with loads of exciting projects across the en...