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More Augmentation

At the moment I'm working with the Upper School classes in school on a short post - SATs project to create a 2DIY based platform style game. I want to showcase the games once completed, and will - of course - place them on the school website, but I always wonder how to show them in school.

Awesome Augmented Audio Displays

This morning when I arrived at school I set to work to put up a display in the classroom, and included an AR element within it.

4D displays become [augmented] reality

On Sunday afternoon I was sent a tweet by @dughall asking me if I had seen, or was aware of 'Aurasma'. I wasn't. I'd never heard of it, but being the curious type I took a look. I'm glad I did because what I saw made my jaw drop to the floor.

Aftercare

For the past week I have been computerless. Well, no that isn't exactly true because I have been able to use alternative devices to maintain my IV connection to the web, but I have been without my MacBook.

Comic Life - a very useful image tip

Recently I posted an article about how we used Comic Life on the laptops for creative work in which I explained how we used Powerpoint to combine background images and clipart characters into a single image, as Comic Life would allow us to layer images in a frame. ('twas a complex procedure to say the least). However...

Apps, iOS devices, accounts, and more confusion

I've spent today learning how to use XCode at Leamore Primary School in Walsall, thanks to an invite from @Michelle_Hill, and really got to grips with all the code, resources and elements involved in creating iOS apps.

It's been one of those days today

It has been. It's been one of those days that teachers have - occasionally - where you leave school, and you can say to yourself "That's why I became a teacher".

Photosynth - what an app

I downloaded an app to my iPhone last week - Photosynth, from Microsoft, ready to have a go at creating a panoramic image of the moors around Haworth, seeing as we were going there towards the end of the Easter break.

Useful iPad digital download guides

These two handy guides - from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, State of Victoria, Australia - contains lots of useful information if you're about to go down the iPad route in your classroom.