i would love to speak to you about possibly partnering up for a college to high school mentor/speaker program. i am presently employed at the cooley, health, science, and technology high school in providence-this partnership would be advantageous to both schools i would think. my email is diane.diprete@ppsd.org

Hello:

I would love the opportunity to speak with you in more depth about this topic particularly in connection with the work I am doing with a new Rhode Island company called CAP3.

my email is rstang@bigofne.com

There are two JWU groups I'm participating in that I will be posting news about, so hopefully it won't become too confusing.  The first is the one I've already mentioned, the SofT ICE group, and the second is Immersive Media Lab.  While SofT ICE is a club, the Lab is the first undergraduate research program of its kind at Johnson & Wales.  We will be meeting regularly (monthly at least and more on an as needed basis) to accomplish techie projects in a collaborative setting.  Collaborative as in can anyone help out?  Why yes, if there is interest from non-students to join in on a project, there is definitely space for that.  The specific technologies we will be working with are Facebook applications and Second Life widgets; however, anything goes and one student will be pursuing a project in PHP.  To give you an idea of the research potential of the group, our next meeting topic is "Web Development and the Nintendo Wii".

 There is a website for the Immersive Media Lab Group that you can check out - www.jwuiml.org  - that's JohnsonWalesUniversityImmersiveMediaLab dot org. 

 You can contact me if you would like further details, and I will keep you all posted.

Hi Sara,
It's cool that you are so involved at jwu. I thought the groups you mentioned were quite interesting and relevant so I added them to the JWU profile. See: http://rinexus.com/directory/5...

If there's anything you'd say differently, I can change it of course.

Also it'd be great to get the Immersive Media meetings in the calendar; I think there may be more than a few people who want to know where this web development X wii thing is going!

As you said, this may be the start of a beautiful friendship :)
Judy

Immersive Media Lab and SofT ICE are getting under way now that we're in our second month of the school year.  In Media Lab this week, we met to brainstorm about projects in Second Life.  Our fearless faculty leader Hilary Mason brought the Nintendo Wii, and we saw the potential for syncing the SL interface with the Wii-mote.  It was already hooked up to move the avatar in two dimensions with the cross-arrows, but we want to map the movement of the Wii-mote in three dimensional real-space to that of the avatar's.  For another topic, our work is cut out for us in thinking how to translate the physical space of the Johnson & Wales School of Technology into virtual space on Second Life.  Hilary pointed out that the virtual space should be interactive and dynamic - for example, we could push a button and a garden appears, push another and a conference room takes its place.

For SofT ICE, we're hosting Sean Ransom and Adam Darowski of BatchBlue at the School of Technology.  I'm excited that they'll be the ones to kick off the guest speaker events for the school year.  They're a startup with plenty of exposure here on RI Nexus.  I was impressed by their presentation a few months back at Providence Geeks Dinner, which then led into their debut at DEMO 07 in San Diego.  This week's presentation is open to Johnson & Wales students, held in the first floor conference room from 5-6:30pm on Wednesday, October 24. 

 If you have any feedback regarding the ongoing tech events at Johnson & Wales or are interesting in seeing how you can participate, feel free to contact me through RI Nexus or at my e-mail, sara.n.streeter@juno.com