Tag: Simulation

  • Visible Body – Another Google Earth for the Body

    Last October, I posted about an IBM service that was looking to help improve visualization of medical records. Just recently, I came across this – Visible Body – the same idea, less the medical records. The site requires a plugin, so you will likely have to talk to the IT people for lab installs, but…

  • Critterism

    Ok, this is more simulation than game, but I don’t have a separate category because sims are game like … so if you are dealing with how a population of plants and animals responds to various stresses, you might want to take a peak at this and see if it meets you needs. If nothing…

  • One man’s meat…

    Is another man’s poison – as stated by a medical colleague of mine who I sent the IBM article off to this morning. Between him and two others, one being my brother we all agreed (or at least seem to) on one thing. A system like the one that IBM has come up with is…

  • Google Earth for the body

    Well, right now this idea is for the medical community, but I don’t see it taking long to get into the hands of the educational system for the medical community and spreading from there as needed especially for biology or elsewhere a more geographic model of a body is required (think about virtual surgery/dissections).

  • Learn Math or Die Trying…

    THE has a nice little story about what a school in the US is finding with it’s game integration in Math. I think the kicker is here: Hobson emphasized that the product doesn’t change the math concepts that are being taught. The year before adopting Tabula Digita, a group of Georgia schools had already been…