Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1

A compilation of Web 2.0 products and services are grouped into two main categories: “Tools”; and “Office Applications”. Some more specific services include: organizers, gradebooks, research tools, document managers, diagrams, and more. There are going to be three parts to the “Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0″ series: part one covering tools; part two covering office applications; and in part three, real cases of Web 2.0 used in classrooms around the world.

BumpTop Desktop Prototype

BumpTop™ Prototype

Keepin’ it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen.

Researchers and developers are always trying to reinvent the desktop, taking it in multiple directions more similar to real life, like this BumpTop, or more similar to a Virtual Reality type desktop that you see in the movies.

The BumpTop structures files and programs as 3d cards with weight that you can shuffle around and move about the desktop. You can throw a bunch of similar cards on a pile to represent stuff you’ll get to later, or stack them neatly to represent stuff you’ve already seen.

Le Frontiere dell’Interazione 2006

“Le Frontiere dell’Interazione e’ un seminario (completamente gratuito) nato nell’estate 2005 da un’idea di Matteo Penzo e Leandro Agrò (che tuttora rivestono il ruolo di producers della giornata) e organizzato da UXnet, Idearium e Università Milano-Bicocca.
L’edizione di quest’anno si terrà il 16 Giugno in Università Bicocca e il tema sarà sulle: Multimodalità , emotività e interfacce intelligenti.
L’avventura delle Frontiere dell’Interazione è cominciata con l’interrogarsi sulla User Experience, e quest’anno prova a fare un passo ulteriore. Le finestre delle GUI tradizionali si arricchiscono di rappresentazioni simboliche simul-umane (avatar), si dotano di input device e sensori capaci di collezionare informazioni emotivamente connotate, ed infine escono dagli schermi e camminano su ruote e gambe robot”

Not tomorrow!

A year from now you may have wished you had started today.