Act-3D, a company dedicated to the development of easy to use realtime 3D software, has announced a massive update is coming. They have given us a preview of what Lumion 4.5 will look like and announced a special promotion. Purchase Lumion 4 now and you will get the free upgrade to Lumion 4.5 when it becomes available. About Lumion 4.5 … Read More
Share this Post
Spring is here, and besides being what we hope is the tail end of all of these ‘polar vortex’ events so many of us have had to endure this past winter, it’s also the time when we get to announce the new product releases for fischertechnik 2014. New fischertechnik 2014 The first two releases expected in the next month are: Tractor … Read More
Share this Post
Studica Ltd., our Canadian office, completed another CAMaster Stinger I install recently for a school in Ontario. The flexibility and functionality of the Stinger line of CNC Routers combined with their excellent price has made CAMaster very popular with Canadian Schools. Studica currently offers CNC Routers in Canada only. Robust CNC Router The Stinger I is an exceptionally robust CNC … Read More
Share this Post
Over 5,295,000 students currently use SumDog to take educational games that help them learn about math, reading and writing. Teachers have full control over the content and lessons they learn. SumDog has a powerful learning engine that can tailor questions to meet individual student needs. It is also intuitive and easy to set up and monitor your students work. SumDog … Read More
Share this Post
How does interactive 3d technology and Leonar3Do help in education? The one word answer is the “WOW-effect”. 3D visualized curriculum piques students’ interest. Full engagement from students makes them thinkbetter. The engagement can be further increased with the possibility of interaction with the digital curriculum. “Digital” is an important keyword. Why? Because digitization allows us to visualize anything in the virtual … Read More
Share this Post
Lumion is a powerful rendering program for Architectural Visualization. We have written several articles about Lumion here on our blog. This article is going to detail what I think is the best workflow of bringing your Revit model into Lumion. As with any program, there are many ways you can accomplish something. However, I had to recently do a demonstration … Read More
Share this Post
Pre-order Unity 5 Unity announced the impending release of Unity 5 at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. This news comes 16 months a after the release of Unity 4. In typical Unity fashion, Unity 5 will improve upon its predecessor in many ways. It comes as no surprise that Unity 5 improves upon the easy-to-use, affordable game engine … Read More
Share this Post
With the advent of affordable 3d printers like the DaVinci 1.0 (costs less than $500 in the USA), Studica wanted to see how this technology can best benefit education. We are always looking for ways to help our education customers marry new technologies with their teaching goals to help create a stronger learning experience for students. We knew that with this new level … Read More
Share this Post
Explore Advanced Career (AC) pathway programs – new types of career-technical curricula that better prepare high school students for more options. AC pathway programs provide a rigorous and relevant blend of technical and academic skills in authentic projects that engage students in preparing for postsecondary options and careers. High Schools That Work, a part of the Southern Regional Education Board … Read More
Share this Post
In our last fischertechnik blog entry, we looked in at the students at Westfield Vocational Technical School in Westfield, MA, as they worked through their initial design challenge as part of the fischertechnik STEM Lab Program, that of creating a braking system for a racing bike. We shared photos of some of the prototypes they created, as well as excerpts … Read More
Share this Post
