Immersive Education Day at Harvard

Homework Assignments

2007-12-17T16:43:00.000-08:00

Immersive Education Day at Harvard

2007-12-08T19:18:00.000-08:00

Harvard University hosted an Immersive Education Day on December 8,2007 from 2-5 p.m at the Askwith Lecture Hall in the Longfellow hall. Immersive Education enhances the learning experience through a range of media tools. Such media tools are 3D graphics,virtual reality, virtual chat,commercial game and game stimulation technologies and web cams.
The event is absolutely free and everyone is welcome. The main speakers of the event include Aaron E. Walsh of Boston College, Gene Koo of Harvard Law School, Timothy Magder Director of the US Department of Education, Jeff Orkin of MIT, and John Caforda of Amherst College. These presenters will advise the public on why immersive education matters and how it is used in the classroom and elsewhere.
Jeff Orkin is a research assistant at MIT. He is also a PhD student studing in the media lab under the guidance of Professor Deb Roy. Orkin has developed several Artificial Intelligence systems in the gaming industry.
Gene Koo is doing reasearch on how media systems affect legal education and the legal system. He graduated from Havard College magda cum laude in 1997 . He also graduated the Harvard Law School cum laude in 2002.
Aaron E. Walsh is the founder and lead designer of the Media Grid Institute. He is also the co-founder of the Mantis Development Corporation. Walsh is also an award winning presenter in the industry. He was also mentioned in the computerworld list of 40 innovative TI people to watch.

For more information on the event visit:

http://mediagrid.org/news/2007-11_Harvard_Immersive_Education_Day.html

http://www.immersiveeducation.org/

MY FIRST BLOG

2007-10-01T08:59:00.000-07:00

Northern and Southern Paranoia in the 1850’s

America during the 1850’s was plagued with paranoia regarding the slavery question. After the American Revolution, some Northerners saw slavery as being contradictory with basic American laws. The revolution saw the establishment of strong nationalistic ideals which slavery seriously undermined. How could America realize its ambition of being the greatest nation in the world; supporting life, liberty and happiness for all, while harboring a “peculiar institution”? Southerners to the contrary saw slavery as part of the “southern way”. It was their “peculiar institution” and was tantamount to Southern success and survival. The years which separated the revolution and the civil war saw a steady development of more stern and spirited proslavery arguments. This core disagreement between both sides gave rise to a plethora of apprehension and conspiracy theories based on areas such as religion, the economy, the legal system, science and medicine, politics and racial theories. These theories largely originated from personal opinion and were tailored in ways that complemented the constructors’ own thoughts.