Immersive Media: Using & Making
Street View, Immersive Media, PhotoSpheres, VR, augmented reality, 360video – this stuff is so new no one can agree on just one name – but for certain as a media form it will follow video just as video followed photos and tv followed radio. It means rendering the entirety of a scene as if inside a globe and has the ability to place the viewer and the maker in the scene at the same time. Leading technology, film and news agencies are using it to engage, entertain and inform. The advent of Google Expeditions will mean this technology will be moving into your classroom soon. With inexpensive tools students can be on the forward edge of not just consuming this new media but creating it and leveraging its strengths. Demonstrate a hidden landmark, examine Mayan construction techniques, or instruct remote users how to repair a broken bike – it's not the future – it's all possible now.
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Discovery Session
Before this session it would be expedient to install these apps on your phone:
Google Cardboard (Android iOS) & StreetView (Android iOS)
Bring along your earbuds too
- Start with "the why"
- The big kids are doing it
- Let's go on a road trip
- A better "Google Car" is in your (student's) pockets
- bit.ly/immerseme
Before this session it would be expedient to install these apps on your phone:
Google Cardboard (Android iOS) & StreetView (Android iOS)
Bring along your earbuds too
DEEP Dive
Participant's challenge will be to create Photosphere images and video for viewing with Google Cardboard and sharing them with the World. More advanced users can go deeper to embed Photospheres into websites or blogs and annotate them for instruction.
If time permits participants will step through the workflow of posting a 360video to YouTube.
Delving deeper in this session, we will consider and learn more about:
Participant's challenge will be to create Photosphere images and video for viewing with Google Cardboard and sharing them with the World. More advanced users can go deeper to embed Photospheres into websites or blogs and annotate them for instruction.
If time permits participants will step through the workflow of posting a 360video to YouTube.
Delving deeper in this session, we will consider and learn more about:
- References to the best quality Immersive Media
- Producing immersive media - Photospheres
- Posting Photospheres to Maps, Streetview
- Embedding Photospheres in websites
- Annotating Photospheres
- Making and sharing 360videos
- Links to learning
- bit.ly/immerseme
Paul Welsh
Paul evolved after years in cold Canadian biology classrooms to the wider and warmer world of technology integration. Along his path he’s worked from Caracas, to Singapore, to Tunis and back to Singapore again where he currently fills the role of HS EdTech Coach at Singapore American School. He spends his working days helping teachers and students uncover ways that technology can make learning more creative, connected and powerful. In actual fact this is a lot likely playing. He is currently interested in learning how model 3D topography. His knowledge of Google geo tools allowed him to present at several conferences around Europe without getting lost. Paul is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator and Trainer, and very irregular blogger. Ask him about visiting the Star Wars film sets. |