Education

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Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back, this time with a significant update to his very cool Kinect Games suite... Kinect Games Version 4I have updated all my Kinect games to use the new Kinect SDK v1.7 and with it I have added some significant changes. Math Mage & Word MageMath Mage &…

Since my last post was about Kinect for Windows Academic pricing, it seemed fitting to highlight this project... Speaking of which, make sure you also check out all the other cool stuff on the KinectEDucation site. Kinect Educational App: River Crossing by KinemsRiver Crossing” is a new Kinect…

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back with a new release of his Kinect Games suite, including a new game, Word Mage... Kinect Games version 3During my adventures with Microsoft in London a week ago, I created a Windows 8 app version of my Math Mage game using Microsoft’s new TouchDevelop…

I think you know by now that I have a soft spot for the Kinect being used in education. So when I saw Rachael Millar's guest post on James Edwards' blog, well... Using the KINECT Green Screen in English [Class]My Year 8 English class are working on a unit called News in the 20th and 21st Century, so…

While we've highlighted this project in the past, there's been some significant updates to it, getting a new fresh website, new features and more. Shout-out to Stephen Howell's (@saorog) tweet for the heads up about it! Kinect2ScratchProgram the Microsoft Kinect with Scratch. Kinect2Scratch allows…

Today's partially inspirational and partially something you can download and play with post is in an area that you all know is near and dear to my heart, Kinect in the STEM world (that and robots ... Kinect for life This week we had an event showcasing  medical technology innovation in…

I think we finally perfected the virtual Paul experience! Check us out this week and let us know what you think! Here's the rundown: Microsofties going back to High School  [07:42] Ballmer talks about the future [03:08] Stocking the Windows Store with quality apps [16:14] Microsoft gives..a…

While today's referenced post mentions some projects using other drivers and platforms, I thought the importance of what they are trying to do enough to look beyond that this time... KinectSEN - Using Kinect in Special Schools for Pupils with Severe Learning DifficultiesThis is a guide for starting…

The Lingo Jingo app is powered by Windows Azure to deliver a social based language learning experience integrating with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to share progress on lessons and exercises. Web roles are used to host its MVC based main marketing site and language learning app, SQL Azure is used…