Toastmasters International has location all over the place.
To find a location best for you visit www.toastmasters.org
You can also email them at tminfo@toastmasters.org.
One of the books that was recommended:
"Speak Up with Confidence" by Jack Valenti
11/14/07
November 14 - The World is Flat
GIS Day 2007
L.I.F.E. Presentation Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
(found at http://faculty.nhmccd.edu/bbuchanan/gisday2007.html )
L.I.F.E. Presentation Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
(found at http://faculty.nhmccd.edu/bbuchanan/gisday2007.html )
The World is Flat - Geography Awareness Day celebrates why geography keeps us connected. Go global with Buck Buchanan in Tech GIS Lab 114.
Geography Awareness Week 2007 November 11-17
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-earth-promotes-geography.html
http://www.google.com/educators/gaw2007.html
GIS Day 2007 Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
http://www.gisday.com/
Metaverse: The term metaverse comes from Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, and is now widely used to describe the vision behind current work on fully immersive 3D virtual spaces.
Current applications no longer claim to be the Metaverse. However, many are inspired by the vision and are exploring the potential of a 3D immersive virtual space from many angles. For example:
The Croquet Project takes the metaverse metaphor as a starting point for a new form of operating system, that is built for the increasing power of modern computers, and does not have its foundations in the limitations of the previous century.
Google Earth is coming from the area of GIS and satellite imagery to build virtual structure on top of real earth data (cf downtown Tokyo).
Photosynth
Blaise Aguera y Arcas created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities. Photosynth itself is a vastly powerful piece of software capable of taking a wide variety of images, analyzing them for similarities, and grafting them together into an interactive three-dimensional space. This seamless patchwork of images can be viewed via multiple angles and magnifications, allowing us to look around corners or "fly" in for a (much) closer look.
Simply put, it could utterly transform the way we experience digital images.
Video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRwOFLWVg8A
Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Photo Tourism Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBQCoEfiMs
University of Washington Photo Tourrism Project: http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/
Perceptive Pixel: Multi-touch interface
Jeff Han unveiled the genius of multi-touch interface design. Han’s intuitive "interface-free" computer displays -- controlled by the touch of fingertips -- will change forever the way you think about computers. At TED 2006, the audience whistled, clapped and gasped audibly as Han demoed (for the first time publicly) his prototype drafting table-cum-touch display, developed at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The demo included a virtual lightbox, where he moved photos by fingertip -- as if they were paper on a desk -- flicking them across the screen and zooming in and out by pinching two fingers together, as well as a Google Earth-like map that he tilted and flew over with simple moves.
Viedo: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ENumwMohs
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGDNFpOMcA
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFwgPuEdSk
Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774
Perceptive Pixel: http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
Stephen Lawler: Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!
Stephen Lawler, from Microsoft, takes us on a tour through the company's new Virtual Earth project, which is, basically, an attempt to turn the entire planet into an interface to the web. Collecting and synthesizing massive amounts of data -- bird's-eye views, street-level photos, 3D wireframes -- the Virtual Earth team are building a world of possibilities. Bonus: This talk may explain the mysterious vans with cameras on top that you might have seen cruising up and down your street.
Video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/139
Microsoft's Virtual Earth: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/
May 2007 Academy for Lifelong Learning Presentation
http://faculty.nhmccd.edu/bbuchanan/ges.html
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
http://www.ted.com/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-earth-promotes-geography.html
http://www.google.com/educators/gaw2007.html
GIS Day 2007 Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
http://www.gisday.com/
Metaverse: The term metaverse comes from Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, and is now widely used to describe the vision behind current work on fully immersive 3D virtual spaces.
Current applications no longer claim to be the Metaverse. However, many are inspired by the vision and are exploring the potential of a 3D immersive virtual space from many angles. For example:
The Croquet Project takes the metaverse metaphor as a starting point for a new form of operating system, that is built for the increasing power of modern computers, and does not have its foundations in the limitations of the previous century.
Google Earth is coming from the area of GIS and satellite imagery to build virtual structure on top of real earth data (cf downtown Tokyo).
Photosynth
Blaise Aguera y Arcas created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities. Photosynth itself is a vastly powerful piece of software capable of taking a wide variety of images, analyzing them for similarities, and grafting them together into an interactive three-dimensional space. This seamless patchwork of images can be viewed via multiple angles and magnifications, allowing us to look around corners or "fly" in for a (much) closer look.
Simply put, it could utterly transform the way we experience digital images.
Video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRwOFLWVg8A
Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Photo Tourism Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBQCoEfiMs
University of Washington Photo Tourrism Project: http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/
Perceptive Pixel: Multi-touch interface
Jeff Han unveiled the genius of multi-touch interface design. Han’s intuitive "interface-free" computer displays -- controlled by the touch of fingertips -- will change forever the way you think about computers. At TED 2006, the audience whistled, clapped and gasped audibly as Han demoed (for the first time publicly) his prototype drafting table-cum-touch display, developed at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The demo included a virtual lightbox, where he moved photos by fingertip -- as if they were paper on a desk -- flicking them across the screen and zooming in and out by pinching two fingers together, as well as a Google Earth-like map that he tilted and flew over with simple moves.
Viedo: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ENumwMohs
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGDNFpOMcA
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFwgPuEdSk
Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774
Perceptive Pixel: http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
Stephen Lawler: Look! Up in the sky! It's Virtual Earth!
Stephen Lawler, from Microsoft, takes us on a tour through the company's new Virtual Earth project, which is, basically, an attempt to turn the entire planet into an interface to the web. Collecting and synthesizing massive amounts of data -- bird's-eye views, street-level photos, 3D wireframes -- the Virtual Earth team are building a world of possibilities. Bonus: This talk may explain the mysterious vans with cameras on top that you might have seen cruising up and down your street.
Video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/139
Microsoft's Virtual Earth: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/
May 2007 Academy for Lifelong Learning Presentation
http://faculty.nhmccd.edu/bbuchanan/ges.html
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
http://www.ted.com/
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