Ayesha

Welcome back for round 2 of my explorations with AR and VR! For this week's work, I have identified 2 of the tools I wrote about in my previous blog. With these 2 specific tools, I have spent more time trying them out, exploring them, and thinking of specific ways that they can be used in school settings and in my content area. The first tool I would like to identify is Google Earth VR. I particularly enjoyed playing around with this tool because the possibilities seemed endless. You can literally virtually visit ant place in the whole entire world. I believe this could be useful in school settings in a number of different areas. Specifically, in social studies and geography. Although this is not my content area, I just think this is such a great tool that could help build students' knowledge. In social studies when students are learning about, for example, the ancient Egyptian empire, the teacher can incorporate Google Earth VR to show them the Giza Pyramids and how they are s...

Welcome to round 1 of my explorations with AR and VR. For this week's work, I have randomly picked 5 AR/VR tools to play around with. The tools I picked were Adobe Spark, Google Translate's AR feature, Google Earth VR, Civilisations AR from BBC, and the Xennial Digital Portal. To be quite honest, when I saw the name Adobe, I did not think it would be very creative. Most of us, or at least maybe just me, know Adobe as a PDF viewer. To my surprise, once I began exploring with Adobe Spark, I felt my eyes lighten up. There were so many possibilities of creativity to choose from. For one, you can create social graphics. You simply just pick a photo, add text, and apply design filters or animations to make it pop. You can also use this tool for web pages. You can turn words and images into magazine-style web stories which definitely look stunning. In addition, you can create short videos by adding photos and videos while adding your own voice. You can also add other sounds and music....

Well folks, looks like we have reached the end of our work of coding with TurtleBlocks and Python. Although at times this work seemed very challenging for me, I am proud of myself for pushing through and not giving up. I know that this kind of technology is definitely emerging as we progress into more modern ages, so it only seemed fair to familiarize myself with this part of computer science.  For my TurtleBlocks project, I learned how to spell out each letter of my name using a TurtleBlocks code. For my Python project, I created a geometric pattern that I thought looked pretty cool. Although both projects were definitely challenging for me, I would have to say that the Python project was more difficult to grasp than the TurtleBlocks.  By doing this work, one thing I obviously learned was how to code using these programs. But in addition, I also learned true perseverance. Both TurtleBlocks and Python projects took a lot of time and effort. I learned the importance of trial an...