WiiLearn http://wiilearn.edublogs.org Nintendo Wii in the classroom Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:26:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Download: Smoothboard 1.6 http://wiilearn.edublogs.org/2009/09/16/download-smoothboard-1-6/ http://wiilearn.edublogs.org/2009/09/16/download-smoothboard-1-6/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:23:02 +0000 Joel Zehring http://wiilearn.edublogs.org/?p=33 I’ve recently downloaded Goh Boon Jin’s Smoothboard 1.6 to drive my Wiimote interactive whiteboard. In my estimation, it seems to be the software that gets us closer than ever to primetime. Key IWB features like annotation, PowerPoint controls, and screen capture aim this software to compete directly with corporate players like Smart and Promethean. A floating toolbar with big, pen-clickable buttons makes it easy to change modes without running back to your PC to click a new setting.

In the settings panel, Smoothboard features some key enhancements that may prove to make the Wiimote-PC connection simple enough for average users. No more muddling around with the painfully slow Bluetooth Connection Wizard. Just press the 1 and 2 buttons on the Wiimote, and the software takes does the rest. I use a Kensington USB dongle to add bluetooth connectivity to my PC, so I’m stuck with the Wizard.

Smoothboard is shareware, and if you want to get rid of the nagging register window, you can buy a registration key for $29.99.

Smoothboard 1.6 Release | Smoothboard.net – The Wiimote Whiteboard.

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  • YouTube – Video Games and Storytelling

    Gaming is searching for soul, and this video captures the struggle very clearly. Think of it as “Understanding Comics” for video games.

    tags: videogames, wiilearn

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  • whiteboardchallenge » home

    “Challenges” involve instruction on interactive whiteboard skills and then brainstorming on how to use those skills.

    tags: wiimotewhitboard, interactivewhiteboard, wiilearn

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  • Setting up TVersity with your Wii « Dan Gross

    Video feeds and transcoding for viewing on the Wii. One more reason to get the Internet Channel for Wii.

    tags: wiilearn, video

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  • Kapp Notes: It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn

    Solid list of games from an edugaming master. I only had time for Arcademic Skill Builders and Energy Hogs which are both very cool.

    tags: wiilearn, games, tbot

  • Energy Hog

    Getting through the opening is a little cumbersome, but the games are good for the wiimote and the game play actually teaches energy consumption concepts.

    tags: wiilearn, games, science, sustainability, zixthgrade

  • Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games

    Lots of simple flash games to develop basic computation and writing conventions. I’d like to see the wiimote worked into these games somehow.

    tags: games, math, writing, zixthgrade, wiilearn

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  • Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science

    This article briefly describes game-design program the Alice. It also sites the late Randy Pausch.

    tags: videogames, wiilearn

  • ☼ Make video games home page ☼

    Genesis 3D software description and links to a tutorial

    tags: videogames, wiilearn

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    Even with all the great opportunities that gaming opens up in the classroom, it’s always good to step back, laugh really hard, and admit that video games are just another tool available to teachers. I don’t have a Wii Fit, my wife wanted DDR instead. I’m just as bad in virtual dancing as I am in real dancing. The same is true with bowling on Wii Sports.

    One of these days I’ll break 150.

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  • Video Games in the Classroom

    “a complete list and summary of each of the activity ideas that are featured in Playing to Learn.”

    Many good ideas for projects related to gaming. Not all gaming activities.

    tags: wiilearn, tbot

  • Video Games in the Classroom

    Seems like a good book with interesting resources and ideas.

    tags: wiilearn, tbot

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  • Breaking: Nintendo Introduces Wii Motion Plus

    Is this some kind of admission that the Wii Remote isn’t what it should be? I’ll be looking for reviews.

    tags: wiimote, wiilearn

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  • Games – Wii Games

    Not at all educational, but it shows what’s possible for online Wii games

    tags: wiilearn, games

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