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This week, our friends across the pond at BrainPOP UK will be sharing the BrainPOP love at BETT: England’s largest Education Technology extravaganza.  Not only will you find BrainPOP UK on the exhibitor floor, but Tim and Moby will be represented in some conference sessions too! If you happen to be at BETT, come stop by, say hi, get some nifty ideas, and snap that highly coveted photograph with Moby!  Even if you can’t make it to BETT, you can still read about events at BrainPOP UK by reading their POPtalk blog, just don’t tell them we sent you!

  Augmented Reality has tremendous potential in the educational world. PBS Kids partnered with AR development company Ogmento to create the game Hatchling Party.  “Every new technology is an opportunity for learning,” said PBS Kids Interactive vice president Sara DeWitt (video), who notes that one of AR’s most exciting aspects is its ability to connect kids to the real world. “We see some real possibilities for young kids to interact with these 3-D objects in a way that they normally wouldn’t.” Sony recently launched Second Sight a program that allows students to create virtual interactions with a variety of media using QR codes that they create and a PSP handheld game. I saw some great demos of this at the BETT convention and at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference in London. A new show that was recently launched by PBSKids.org called  Dinosaur Train Hatching Party, is an augmented reality game for kids from 3 to 5 years old. An adult prints out a colorful graphic and when a pre-schooler holds it in front of a webcam, a 3-D dinosaur egg appears on-screen. Because eggs need the warmth of the sun to hatch, the toddler turns the paper so light hits… Read the Rest»