Episode 187 – Digital Assistants and Holoportation

03/31/2016

It’s Thursday, March 31st, 2016 and welcome to Episode 187 of TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. Happy Leap Year!

This episode we have a listener question that leads into a discussion about digital assistances and how we remind ourselves of items of importance to us. We mention Cortana, Siri, and Google Now.

We will also share our Technology Picks of the "Week".

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(27 minutes 26 seconds)

Show Notes:

Technology Picks of the "Week" 

Tom’s Pick

Holoportation, Wow!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d59O6cfaM0

Hololens Galaxy Explorer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsnH2Q7HxOA

Hololens Case Western University, Teaching Anatomy example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKpKlh1-en0&index=5&list=PL0hqu1WtdRo93XNfrpnrUzxdsUjjlZweh

Hololens AutoDesk engineering example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx6biWE2VsM&index=3&list=PL0hqu1WtdRo93XNfrpnrUzxdsUjjlZweh

Hololens Build 2016 Developers Conference Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NQ39e4fdoo

Cindy's Pick

Google Cardboard
https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/

That wraps it up for episode 187 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc If you have a comment or suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Keep on Learning!

Tom Grissom, Ph.D.

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