Dec

5

Move over – here comes Eve

December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There’s been a conspiracy theory for many years that ‘they’ were trying to replace teachers with technology. Maybe Eve is the one to do it! There’s an excellent overview of this project on Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends it begins:
New Zealand computer scientists have developed Eve, an affective tutoring system (ATS) which can adapt its response [...]

Nov

27

edna’s Second Life Party

November 27, 2007 | 3 Comments

edna (Education Network Australia) is 10 years old so they threw a party. Some people attended on-site – drank wine & ate cake. Others attended in Second Life – drank wine & ate cake. First we had the speeches (they were happening in the real world & ‘beamed’ live to us):

Then there was the dancing [...]