Edunomia

En la conferència que el Dr. Buce ens va fer dimarts al congrés UNIVEST, va esmentar un cas d’abaratiment radical d’un estri tencològic: el Wiimmote. Al blog d’aquest professor, que és molt recomanavle i un bon exemple a seguir, explica el cas d’una pissarra virtual fent servir un projector normal i un comandament de la consola Wii.

One of the more interesting, and on-going, inquiries around technology and learning is related to a device–a low-cost, multi-touch, interactive whiteboard using a Wiimote. As most people know, an interactive whiteboard is a large interactive screen on which a projector can mirror a computer’s display. Users can then control the computer using a special pen, finger, or other device. They’re used in a variety of settings including classrooms at all levels, work groups, broadcasting, etc., but cost thousands of dollars. A Wiimote is the remote controller from the Nintendo Wii computer game, which costs just a few hundred.

Johnny Chung Lee, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, has a variety of interesting projects involving human-computer interaction. He discovered a way to build an interactive whiteboard using a Wiimote. His version is portable and can be built for a tiny fraction of the cost of a commercial whiteboard. He’s recently come out with the Wiimote Whiteboard v0.2.

Val la pena mirar el video d’en Johnny Chung Lee, on se’l veu escrivint a la pissarra virtual. Aquesta combinació de Wii i PC és molt barata comparat amb dispositius semblants “high tech” que fan pràcticament el mateix.

Tinc ganes de provar-ho. Ja coneixia la utilitat del comandament de la Wii, però en aquest cas s’hi troba una utilitat educativa innovadora.