Augment: designing and customizing your own augmented reality
Augment is a tool to design and integrate Augmented Reality (AR) into your classroom. There are three components included: the Augment app, the Augment Manager and the Augment Desktop. The Augment app allow you to visualize 3D Models via the camera on your mobile devices. The Augment Manager is used to upload and manage various […]
Green Screen for Storytelling
Create your own narrative using green screen technologies. Using a Green Screen (sheet of fabric or paper or even a chalkboard) and a video editing application, you can filter out the background of any image or video so that you can overlay your central image on any background – real or imagined! Green Screen by […]
Arduino
Arduino is a small open-source electronics platform that integrates hardware and software. The Arduino board can either be purchased online or borrowed from the UBC Woodward library. The software is available for free online for Windows, Mac and Linux. Features include: Hardware is inexpensive (between $5 and $40 depending on brand and where you purchase) Software can run on […]
Applied Design Skills and Technologies
BC’s newest K-9 curriculum is Applied Design Skills and Technologies. It is interesting to consider the opportunities for teachers to integrate “STEAM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math), Makerspace, computational thinking (including coding) and entrepreneurship in their teaching. I’ve started building a few PIN boards with resources that might support ADST learning that I thought […]
Take a Break and Make!
Visit one of our ‘pop up’ mini-makerspaces in the Scarfe Digital Sandbox – Scarfe 155 (Tuesday 12:45 – 2 beginning September 29th & the last Wednesday of each month 12 – 1pm). Explore ways to bring hands-on learning to your classroom through activities that spark imagination through playful exploration and invention. This activity is particularly […]
