Steelcase has come up with the concept called Media:Scape. The
concept brings students around a table with comfortable seating,
but more importantly it provides a mechanism for each student to
share their computer "image" by way of an innovative "puck." You
simply click on the puck, and your computer is displayed on the
main monitor. This Media:Scape provides the opportunity for
students to share and collaborative. This same system is being
used at Drexel University in the Hagerty Library atrium. As we
design spaces to promote collaboration, simply changing the
furniture can help to enhance the experience for the students.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 Today, when designing new learning
spaces perhaps we should reflect on how these environments can
be enhanced with Web 2.0 technologies. While, some of these
technologies may have no immediate effect on the spaces we
create, perhaps when we think about how students utilize rich
media in their social lives, and academic lives, we can maximize
their learning (and so