New ThinkBalm Innovation Community video: “The Innovation Un-Lecture”
by Erica Driver and Sam Driver.
Today ThinkBalm published a new ThinkBalm Innovation Community work product: a six-minute video titled The Innovation Un-Lecture: A ThinkBalm Innovation Community event. This video is about an un-lecture held on September 11th, 2009. An un-lecture is an event format consisting of four ten-minute presentations, demos, or tours about work-related use of immersive technologies, held in an immersive environment. The theme of the Sept. 11th event turned out to be innovation.
This video describes presentations by:
- Charlie Herbek. Charlie Herbek is a senior Manager with CSC, which is a $16 billion company that provides technology-enabled business solutions and services. The company recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a series of immersive events. More than 2,000 of the company’s 92,000 employees participated in some way. Moving forward, CSC plans to use its immersive environment to reinforce the company culture. The company is very focused on innovation and sees immersive technology as a means of propagating an innovative culture. The bottom line? Ultimately, increased revenues.
- Leon Cych. Leon Cych is director at Learn4Life, an eLearning consulting company in the UK. Leon talked about a new collaborative innovation project he is launching, called Virtual Bletchley Park. Leon is assembling a team of volunteers to build a replica of Bletchley Park in the virtual world of ReactionGrid. The goal? Assemble a group of people from academia, corporations, and government, put them together to work on something, and see what happens. The culture Leon is trying to establish will be based on John Seely Brown’s notion of “creation nets.” His goal is to demonstrate that the collaborative innovation process, as applied to projects conducted in a virtual world, really works.
- Janalee Redmond. Janalee Redmond is director at the Epoch Institute and innovator at IMMERSION:tools:jam. Her vocation is teaching. She’s a dressage instructor and has a background in training doctors how to use computers, in particular Windows applications. At the Epoch Institute she offers training sessions to help professionals become comfortable working in an immersive environment. Janalee Redmond also helps run the IMMERSION:tools:jam, which is a community of practice that meets three times a week in Second Life. The group experiments with, and share learnings related to, 3D collaboration, communication, and learning tools.
- Cynthia Calongne. Cynthia Calongne is a professor in the Institute of Advanced Studies at Colorado Technical University, where she teaches advanced game design. Cynthia gave an intro to a gaming education kit she designed with members of the faculty at the US Air Force Air University. This serious game was designed to reinforce leadership and teamwork, and teach communication skills, in the context of a scenario: a hostage rescue operation. The target students for this learning experience are Air Force academy cadets, war college students, and faculty.
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