3 Steps to Creating an Awesome Virtual Museum in Class
You're spending an afternoon browsing the exhibits at an art museum. If you're anything like me, you'd probably appreciate the art a lot more if you could bring someone along that could explain the history and nuances of the pieces on display. Now imagine pointing a device at the painting and seeing it morph into a dynamic video giving you all the information you wanted about the art. Welcome to augmented reality.
Teaching with Technology Archives - Faculty Focus
November 2, 2015 The Power of Podcasting Redux By: Kurtis C. Clements It’s no secret that technology continues to transform the way educators teach and the way students learn.
Watson and the future of AI
Radical roboticist Hans Moravec, former director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, expanded our imagination with his vision of future robots as our “mind children.” Now he’s revolutionizing industry with his enhanced-vision mobile robots. We asked him to help us put Watson in perspective. Full disclosure: Ray Kurzweil is on the board of directors of Seegrid Corporation. — Ed. Let’s take a moment to lift our noses from the grindstone and reassess the future. Apropos is IBM’s upcoming artificial intelligence spectacular, pitting “Watson” (a 90-server, 80 teraflops, 15 terabyte supercomputer, doing natural language disambiguation and question answering from a huge mixed-format internal database — no Internet), against the two top previous human winners of the game show Jeopardy!
Augmented Reality Brings New Dimensions to Learning
Editor's Note: Drew Minock, who co-wrote this piece, is an elementary teacher, co-founder of the popular education blog Two Guys and Some IPads, and is one of the voices on "The Two Guys Show" podcast. Imagine living in the magical world of Harry Potter, where the school hallways are lined with paintings that are alive and interactive. Now imagine creating an atmosphere like that for your students.
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List of software that has been reviewed by the security team for risk assessment and ADA compatibility. 3D Geometry - app designed for observing and manipulating geometrical figures in three dimensional space [Mobile Platform]7in1 Apps for Seniors - easy skyping, facebooking, emailing and more in EasyFamily AppSuite [Mobile Platform] A Special Phone - You can simply touch your finger anywhere on the screen, and the application will tell you which number you are touching. [Desktop Platform] ABC Data - app to assist professionals and students in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), special education, school psychology, and clinical psychology, as well as researchers conducting observational studies.
6 Platforms to Create Augmented Reality
When most people first try augmented reality(AR) in education, they start with applications that have the AR content already built into the app. Apps like AR Flashcards, PBS Kids CyberChase Shape Quest, and Crayola Color Alive have this, and are a great way to get your feet wet. As educators, we know the power of creation.
10 Free Image Hosting Sites for Your Photos
Google Photos is probably one of the most useful photo resources you can use, mainly for its powerful automatic backup feature. And since you probably already have a Google account, getting set up will be easy. You can access it on the web at photos.google.com or simply download one of the free Google Photos apps to automatically upload all photos you take with your devices. They'll all be synced up right across your account and accessible from anywhere. You can also use Google Photos to edit your photos, organize them according to people/places/things and share them online even with non-Google Photos users. The more you use Google Photos, the more it learns about your photo habits so that it can take some of the manual work off your back by automatically organizing your photos for you.
Augmented Reality in Education - Teaching and Learning nuts and boltsTeaching and Learning nuts and bolts
I have been using augmented reality for a while now. It is a great tool to engage learners, especially with literacy. My tool of choice for this is Layar, I find the ability to create the AR and change it regularly makes it a great tool for the classroom. I wrote an eBook about how to use it and you can download it by clicking the button above.
The Most Innovative Augmented Reality Experiences Of 2012
With the help of augmented reality, anything from gaming environments, advertisements, TV shows, and educational platforms can be transformed into highly interactive experiences. More and more leading brands are adopting the use of augmented reality to engage their audiences and enhance the brand experience, and at the recent AR Summit in London, eleven of the most innovative uses of augmented reality were chosen in an attempt to celebrate and ‘highlight those who are producing creative strategies, adopting new techniques, enhancing technologies and pushing forward the industry.’ Scroll through five of the examples in the ‘most innovative use’ shortlist, and see a full list here: Sesame Prototype Playset by Qualcomm
