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  Visit this pavilion to learn how emerging technologies can appropriately and effectively facilitate learning for all students. Emphasis will be placed on how innovative technologies can be integrated into daily classroom practice.
 


Energy-Efficient Modular Classrooms
B2L (Built to Learn)
These energy-efficient modular classrooms are designed to promote a safe and healthy environment. The B2L houses pod-like containers with special programs focused on subject mastery: astronomy, economics, geometry. . . Choose your place and your pace.

Culturally-Based Mathematics
Culturally Situated Design Tools
This software helps students master standards-based mathematics principles as they simulate the original artifacts and develop their own culturally specific creations. Now you're speaking my language.

Customizable Learning Environments
GooRu
GooRu is a customizable education system that replaces books, writing utensils and desks. The three-part technology system consists of an interactive PDA called the GooBall, a backpack, and a removable flexible LCD screen for each student. Personalize your classroom and learn your way.

High Performance Learning Environments
Virginia Tech Center for High Performance Learning Environments
Integrated photovoltaic and thermal solar roofs, geothermal heating and cooling, daylighting—the Center for High Performance Learning Environments promotes "buildings that teach," where building systems become active participants in learning. Smart buildings? You have no idea.

Educational Games
Making History
Get into a rich World War II world where every nation has its own agenda and where events can turn on a single alliance. Work with your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses. Build up your industry, infrastructure, economy and military. Create alliances. Then reshape your strategy as the world evolves with each turn.

Immersive Learning Environments
Phoebe's Field
Total immersion physics - where abstract concepts such as force fields, atomic structure and the Pythagorean Theorem—are explained through metaphor and analogy. This extra-spatial environment allows complete immersion, where learning is experienced in three dimensions.

Innovative Display Technologies
Pocket Projector
Mitsubishi's big idea, at just one pound, fits in the palm of your hand, so you can gain the effectiveness of a small versatile projector anytime you want. Gone are the days of wheeling in the big AV cart.

Three-Dimensional Display Technologies
Portable viz3D
3D visualization is a key ingredient in illustrating complex physical structures in academic settings. Explore docking molecules, proteins, tectonics, weather patterns or compound machinery in 3D and significantly impact students' understanding of complex systems.

Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
ReadRacer
What if you could double or triple your onscreen reading speed? ReadRacer uses a speed-reading method called RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) that allows people to learn to read up to 2,000 words per minute. Because it flashes words or short phrases onto the screen in front of you, fixed in one spot, you don't have to move or refocus your eyes. Experience text in a new way.

Information Display Technologies
The IV: InfoView
Information Viewer is an elegant interactive wall design that turns a wall into a dynamic storytelling space. Simply slide the IV along its rails to see and hear the changing graphics, text, video or 3D content. Watch a timeline come alive!

Text to Scene Technology
WordsEye
WordsEye enables anyone to be a 3D graphics artist by typing a picture. This software takes a text description and then generates a fully rendered scene based on the description. Watch your language.

Infrared and Laser Input Devices
Virtual Keyboard
Project a keyboard onto any flat surface and type away! The full-size layout allows you to approach the typing speeds of a standard keyboard, and it's only 3.5 inches tall. For the technology-wary, it even makes simulated key-click sounds.

Innovative Display Technologies
Goo Systems
Goo Systems has created a paint-on coating designed to provide exceptional projection results. Any rigid transparent surface can now be cost-effectively transformed into a high-quality dual-sided projection screen to accommodate front or rear projections. How big is your TV?

Innovative Display Technologies
FogScreen
The FogScreen™ projection screen produces a thin curtain of "dry" fog that serves as a translucent projection screen, displaying images that literally float in the air. Using tap water and ultrasonic waves, FogScreen machines employ a patented technology to create a smooth foggy airflow that captures images just like a screen. Command attention.

Modeling and Simulation
VMASC
Get inside the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center 3D image dome. While inside the dome, the user's entire field of view is filled with the image curved across the concave surface of the dome. The relative immersion of the dome easily creates a suspension of disbelief; it's the new reality.