I Read You
I Read You is a educational technology business venture that seeks to reinvent how teachers teach in a diverse classroom. With our interactive and leveled etextbooks, you will be able to have your whole class working on the same materials – rather than developing multiple individual packages for specific students. We create interactive text passages to […]
Week 8 Activity 1 – Central Okanagan School District
The school district that I work for, SD23 (Central Okanagan), uses online technology to deliver their safety courses. The courses that are offered are actually more numerous than I originally thought. The safety courses are all delivered through videos, and they are hosted on their own domain website. Each course is designed so that users […]
Analyst Report – TouchCast
Please click on the links below to view my Analyst Reports on TouchCast. These are interactive web videos – you can click on the interactive vApp elements that appear on the screen to access further content. TouchCast Analyst Report Part 1 TouchCast Analyst Report Part 2
Prodigy – Rohan Mahimker & Alex Peters
Prodigy is an online-based math game for grades 3-8. It is stylized after a Pokémon-like RPG, where students answer math questions to successful attack and capture monsters, as well as perform quests for gold and equipment. The game has moved on to more of a MMORPG model where students can select servers to meet up […]
Week 5 OER: Forecasting AR in Education (Start)
Welcome to the Week 5 Open Educational Resource (OER). Our topic is Forecasting Augmented Reality (AR) in Education. You will be taken to an external site and from time to time, be brought back to WordPress to complete activities to earn badges! (note: if you copy/paste your review into the comment field instead, you will be […]
W5 Activity: Current Applications
Download one (or more) of the following AR apps onto your mobile device of choice (note: you will need to visit your appropriate app store, however, you can be guided there by these links): Aurasma Quiver Starwalk Google Translate: (Android/iOS) *note: we are referring to the picture translator feature using your device’s camera Anatomy 4D layar […]
W5 Activity: Forecasting AR Edu – AR Lenses
Provide a review based on the following questions? Can you envision this wearable technology being used in education? Is this taking wearables too far? Once you have posted your review, you have earned the Forecasting AR Edu: AR Lenses Badge! Click here to return to the Forecasting AR in Education OER.
W5 Activity: Forecasting AR Edu – Magic Leap
Provide a review based on the following questions: Is this the future of AR? What are the practical applications of a product like Magic Leap on education? Reports from early testing of the iOptik Lens and Magic Leap is a feelign of nausea and headaches. By tricking the eyes to see something that is […]
W5 Activity: Authoring AR
Choose one or both activities: Activity 1: Emerging Authoring Skills Watch the videos below to learn how to turn your smartphone/iPad into a holographic projection device. Post a review below on your ideas and thoughts of how students might use this authoring skill to access the curriculum and to illustrate their learning. This video provides detailed instructions of how […]
W5 Activity: Assessing AR
Using the app that you demo’d in the Current AR Applications Activity, choose one of the SECTIONS categories from our rubric to evaluate its educational effectiveness. Post your findings in the review area on our WordPress site to earn your AR Assessment Badge! Please click here to review the Current AR Applications. Once you have […]
Hi there!
Hello everyone, my name is Lane Hardy. This is my 8th MET course, and it’s hard to believe that it’s starting to come to an end! I’m currently a grade 5/6 teacher at Peter Greer Elementary in Lake Country, BC (15 minutes north of Kelowna). I’ve been teaching for 10 or so years, and I’ve […]