[OT] semapedia

[Marielle Lange]

Came across this:
 >http://www.semapedia.org/learnmore/>
Using Semacode Nodes, real-world objects such as a museum, a statue  
or anything that exists in the real-world and which happens to have a  
Wikipedia.org article written will be tagged with their according  
Wikipedia article URL. A passer-by can now use his Smartphone and  
'click' (take a picture and decode the URL) on the Semacode Node in  
order to obtain the relevant Wikipedia article on the subject that  
she is standing in front of. The Semacode Node was formerly created  
and attached by either the owner of the subject or someone else who  
thinks passer-bys should be able to learn more on the subject using  
this technology.

Imagine this:
You take the kiddies on a field trip... semacodes are spread around.  
Each time a team come across an object, it scans the tag, which  
automatically connects them to a website (not wikipedia, but a  
private wiki), then comment, answers questions, or write a bit of  
text... move to the next object. Can also be used within a classroom.  
Okay, it requires to have a set of PDAs + wireless connections (out  
of school budgets?), but this would be cool.

Probably, we will see this appear in shops 5-10 years before it does  
in schools.

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Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguist

Homepage:  http://homepages.lexicall.org/mlange/
Lexicall project: http://lexicall.org
Revolution-education project: http://revolution.lexicall.org