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VR Tours & Literacy

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AR & VR Tools, Blog Posts, Digital & Media Literacy, Elementary & Middle Years, Learning Design & Planning, Resource | Tagged with 360 degree image, 360 images, AR, core competencies, Language Arts, literacy, multimodal, novel studies, real-world, virtual reality, vr

NOTE: As of June 2021, Google Tour Creator is being discontinued (and this post and accompanying video resources will be archived/removed) Have you considered how 360° video, images, Augmented and Virtual Reality might help spark your students’ creativity and, perhaps, engage them in the ‘place’ or setting of a novel? In the past, such technologies […]

Star Viewing Apps

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, app, AR & VR Tools, Free, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource, science | Tagged with AR, augmented reality, engaging, inquiry, interactive, sky, starviewer

These are apps that provide an immersive and augmented viewing of the stars, planets, and sometimes even space stations or satellites! They allow students to recognize and experience the locations of various stars in relation to themselves. It’s a powerful tool that promotes questioning, deeper understanding, and engagement because students can rotate their devices to […]

Tech Integration: Possibilities for Secondary Chemistry

Posted in Blog Posts, science, sciSTEAM, STEAM, techSTEAM | Tagged with AR, chemistry, emerging technology, PHET, science, Sims, Simulations, vr

Learn more about integrating digital technologies and emerging technologies into a Chemistry Classroom. This post shares the resources co-developed with Leslie Johnstone, a UBC Science Instructor, for use in her UBC BEd Secondary Chemistry Methods course.