Here beComes Everybody

Augmented reality describes an environment where physical reality is augmented by some form of computer-generated graphics. Some smartphone applications, such as Yelp and Layar have already started to experiment with augmented reality. Because the smartphone running an augmented reality app needs a compass to orient the computer-generated content over the physical world, the iPhone 3G [...]

ARG! For those of you unfamiliar with this acronym, you may be tempted to read it as “argh,” the sound of frustration often coming from me during the last few weeks of the semester. But “ARG” has a much more positive connotation for fans of Alternate Reality Games. They are a relatively new form of [...]

At the request of GeoEverything group members, the DWRL has purchased two 3Dconnexion Space Navigator “mice.” These “mice” are useful for live–in-class–navigation in Google Earth as well as for steady recording of tours in Google Earth. Here is a video from the Google Earth blog that demonstrates the usefulness of the mouse:3Dconnexion Space Navigator in [...]

Using Google Spreadsheet Mapper v2.0, the DWRL Geo-Everything project group created a number of placemarks and tours that model different ways that Google Earth might be used in the classroom. Some of these include actual student work, while others are models created by project members to help think through possible pedagogical applications of GE. Below [...]