Virtual reality & augmented reality in the classroom
- 1. Charlotte Lemaitre Integrating Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Into your classroom
- 2. Hello! 2 I’m Charlotte Lemaitre Geography Teacher at the British School of Brussels You can find me at : @CLemaitre clemaitre@britishschool.be
- 3. Learning Objectives What will you walk away with today? 1
- 4. Learning Objectives 1. Understand what VR & AR are. 2. Find out how you can integrate augmented reality into your classroom. 3. Learn how you can guide your students around your classroom during an AR activity. 4. Learn how to use Google Expeditions and understand how to take your students on a virtual field trip. 5. Discover how you can create your own VR experience using the Google’s VR tour creator & Google’s cardboard app 4
- 5. What is VR? Classroom virtual reality (VR) is the use of simple, affordable VR platforms as part of effective and efficient teaching. Classroom VR is based upon an immersive multimedia experience – replicating a physical presence at a location in the real world. A stereoscopic display is created on a smartphone device which is then held by a headset. The user’s face is brought up to the headset to immerse the user in the experience.
- 7. What is Google Cardboard? Google Cardboard is Google’s virtual reality platform. It is based upon the utilization of a user’s own smartphone device and a fold-out cardboard headset. This leads to a low-cost system. Google Cardboard’s specification were designed by Google but they do not manufacture the headsets themselves. They range from £3.99 - £45 on amazon.co.uk
- 8. Can I make one? Headset schematics and assembly instructions are freely available from Google so a school with a laser cutter could easily produce the headsets if they could access a cheap source of 45mm focal plastic lenses.
- 11. ● History – The historical buildings in the UK, Little Bighorn Battlefield, the War memorials around Ypres, Salem in 1630, Women’s suffrage in the United States, Middle Ages and Renaissance architecture ● Earth Sciences/Geography – volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, minerals and gems, Yellowstone National Park, exploring inside an Arctic glacier ● Biology – Various ecosystems – coral reefs and wetlands, the auditory system, skeletal system, fertilization ● Arts – The Freer and Sackler Galleries, the History of Jazz ● Physics – the Moon, the Stratosphere, the Solar System, CERN ● Experiences that could provide stimulus for creative writing – Varanasi, a trip to the North Pole, Greece, Out of Syria – back to school, The Burj Khalifa, Kathmandu, Nuclear disaster aftermath: The Fall Out EXAMPLES
- 12. Google Expeditions tutorial - how to guide your students
- 13. What is AR? Augmented reality is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it.
- 15. Google Expeditions & AR Examples available on Expeditions: ❏ DNA ❏ WWII warfare ❏ Roman life ❏ Ecosystem of a Coral Reef ❏ Geometry - types of triangles ❏ Organic chemistry - structure ❏ How Photosynthesis works ❏ How colour works ❏ A look at earthquakes / volcanoes ❏ Inside viruses ❏ Vincent Van Gogh ❏ Renaissance art ❏ Instruments of Africa ❏ Energy
- 16. Guide your students using AR Step 1: Click on the menu bar in Google Expeditions Step 2: Click Help with Markers Step 3: Click on Email or print out markers Step 4: Print out the 7 markers & place around the room Step 5: Choose to be the guide & the choose the AR tour.
- 17. Testing everything out - AR Walk around until white spots appear on your screen and then tap. Slide the text boxes along at the bottom to investigate a different aspect
- 18. WWF free river app – The Water Cycle come alive in your class room
- 19. Testing everything out - VR
- 21. How can I make my own tour?
- 22. Tour of Tervuren