AI & Big Data Expo 25.4.-26.4 in London

AI & Big Data Expo 25.4.-26.4 in London, Olympia.

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FinEduAI - Tekoäly lukiossa

Tekoäly lukiolaisen oppimisessa -hankkeen ensimmäisen syksyn blogipostaukset ja twiitit

Wakelet and virtual reality content at #itk2018 event

Storify is gone but  Wakelet  is a good replacement for share and curate social media content. 

Virtual Reality in Education

Some experiences from Virtual reality development project FinEduVR in four Finnish High Schools funded by Finland National Agency for Education.  

More information: 

FinEduVr Instagram
@fineduvr

Coordinators: 
@sormuju, @apuustin, @ilotimo
ArVR2020 Storify

Virtual Reality in Education from Jyväskylä Educational Consortium

Interactive video tools for teachers

Classroom Audio Tools

For next high school 6 week period we need some audio tools for different projects. I have use example Spreaker for student radio shows and book discussions.We have BYOD program going on and almost every high school first grader at Jyväskylä city, Finland  has their own device at school, mainly laptops. Also we have some iPads and Chromebooks from our school.  Most of students like to use audio apps from their smart phones.

Timeline tools for teachers

Next period i need timeline tools with my students. So here is a Storify collection for me and my students. 

Virtual Reality Presentation at Virtual learning days 8.12.

We had Virtual reality presentation 8.12. at National Virtual Learning Days arenged by National Board of Education Finland. Our topics were virtual reality, 360 video and photos, 360 cameras, Google cardboard, Samsung Gear Vr, Drones, Phantom 3, Webvr, Virtual environments. Even some material are in Finnish, lots of presentations are in video format. Check it out. Lots of things happening on the field of education and virtual reality here in Finland. 

Google Cardboard, Copter drone, Theta camera and 360 Youtube

Google Cardboard  and new Youtube 360 video feature are working well together. I predict it will be big thing next year in education, at least Finnish education,  because we start officially our Virtual reality glasses and learning project 2015 -2017. Google Cardboard is almost free, and school can buy good 360 camera amount of 300 €.  

Just order Google Cardboard, unbox like i my last Google Cardboard post, use Cardboard and Android app, go to 360 video channel, click Cardboard icon and just look over your shoulder. If you dont have Cardboard, you can see the video with Chrome Browser. On the left side of to video is a guide panel to look around. 

We started our project beforhand this summer with Ricoh Theta 360 camera. Kuopio classical school principal Jukka Sormunen with students printed in spring 3D copter with Minifactory 3D printer. Little practice and after five crash downs Principal himself taped Theta camera and flew and shoot 360 video. We will buy a few drones with video cameras during this project. 

Use Chrome browser or Google Cardboard to look this video. 

Google Cardboard v 2.0 unboxed

I ordered Google Cardboard v 2.0 from I AM CARDBOARD and package has arrived. So lets unbox. 

A Box

Cardboad headset 

Ready to use. Took about two minutes. 

Add your phone inside 

                 Tutorial from Kevin the Tech Ninja

 

Check our Virtual reality glasses and learning project 2015 - 2017 Start officially at August 2015 

Virtual Reality 360 Cameras

One main goal in new four high school  Virtual reality headsets and learning project 2015 - 2017 is to produce 360 videos by students and teachers to Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard. We start with Ricoh Theta but there are many virtual reality cameras coming to the market. We also follow development of these products. Do you know any other good 360 cameras we could use in this project?

RICOH THETA

The Google Jump 360° Camera Rig Uses 16 GoPros

» 360Stories: The making of

360Heros

Panono Explorer Edition | PhotographyBLOG

Welcome

Lily - The Camera That Follows You

Top Virtual Reality Stories

Yes, im back on blogging again, thanks for inspiring virtual reality development.  Last post was about our Virtual Reality Glasses and Learning - project 2015 - 2017 which starts in August. I just unboxed my very own Samsung Gear VR and testing it tomorrow. There are lots of good up to date articles and i will post them from now on weekly in my blog. 

Top articles:

Top 10 Best Virtual Reality Headsets

Virtual Reality Ecosystem Map

Google Cardboard 
Google Cardboard makes virtual reality a thing for the masses
How to get started with Google Cardboard
Google Cardboard Vs. Samsung Gear VR
Top 20 Google Cardboard apps you can download

HTC Vive
HTC Vive
HCC Vive vs. Cardboard Vs Gear VR

Youtube 
Google Introduces 360-degree YouTube ads

Virtual Reality Glasses and Learning - project 2015 - 2017

Virtual reality has taken huge steps in past two years from 3D and augmented reality to virtual reality glasses. Developers like Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Sony Project Morpheus, HTC Vive, Microsoft Hololens , Google Cardboard bring virtual reality glasses available to consumers at 2015 - 2016.

This project is funded by Finnish National Board of Education. During years 2015 - 2017 four high schools from Muurame,  Jyväskylä and Kuopio cities develop and test new virtual reality glasses in learning. 

Project main goals:

1. Experiences of virtual reality as learning environment.

2. Offer 360 video production skills and tools for high school teachers and students

3. Share current and future potential of virtual reality developers like Oculus Rift, Sony, Samsung, Google, Valve and Microsoft to all levels of Finnish education system

4. Test virtual reality possibilities in high school subjects (history, geography, biology, sports, arts . . .), team learning and entrepreneurship studies.

5. Test virtual reality as new tool used marketing schools.  

6. Organize high school level national virtual reality game event together with students and teachers

7. With together our company partners Samsung Finland and Edutukku test Samsung Gear Vr virtual reality learning environment.

8. Google Cardboard testing in classroom

We want to build global learning network with schools and companies interested in virtual reality glasses. If interested in collaboration, please contact us in Twitter or this blog comment section.

Contacts:

Teacher and Coordinator @ilotimo

Coordinator and Principal of Muurame high school @apuustin

Company developer, Principal of Kuopio classical high school @sormuju

All tweet about education technology and virtual reality in English

Resources: 

My virtual reality Twitter list 

Virtual Reality VR  Scoop.it

Hashtag #virtualreality

Mirroring Android, Win, iOS-devices in Byod classroom

Im working now in Byod project and our first job is to make some tests about mirroring Android, Win, iOS-devices in Byod classroom.

This first video mirroring Windows and Android devices. Windows 8-tablet and Samsung Note 3 smart phone and Samsung 10.1. Note tablet. Devices need Miracast support. We use wireless Netgear to mirroring those devices. 



Mirroring Android and Windows in Byod classroom.

12.5-13.5. Visit in Denmark 1:1 schools

I had great opportunity to visit in three 1:1 schools in Denmark at 12.5-13.5. After three hours of sleep i let photos do the most talking. 

First school was VUC Haderslev students 18+. New huge building look like a modern museum. They talk about Learning Lighthouse

Our next visit Parkvejens skole in Odder. Municipality of Odder is famous of its iPad 1:1 solutions. Next slide photos tell you some basic ideas related 1:1. 

 Our last visit was in Copenhagen Ørestads high school. This school has been leading digital leaning environment developer in among Denmark high school. All students has lap top and iPad. Also Android and Windows about 10%. In this byod-system they use Google Drive as learning platform.  1100 students in that school. 

Green Screen iPad Studio in Classroom

In Voionmaa high school we have team course now running. It means that three teachers from each subjects have their course together. Normally 6 hours week is now 18 hours / week. Courses are Speech communication, biology Environmental ecology and in geography Environment hasards like Tsunami or Earthquake.

My job is to make students communicate different ways using topics of biology and geography.
One task is to make environmental news using Green screen iPad app by Do Ink.



I found this Green Screen video tutorial from Jonathan Wylie. After that everything was quite easy. 

One result from last week Earth Day (in Finnish). You can see the different background.






More Green Screen

Cybraryman Green Screen Page

Thinglink for teachers

Using Thinglink is easy. First download image, then tag with different web content like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and more and finally share your content. I use it mostly with iPad. Thinglink app. 

From Thinglink Youtube channel



Some ideas to use Thinglink in education:

73+ ways to use Thinglink
thinglinktoolkit.wikispaces.com
10 innovative ways to use Thinglink in the classroom

Labdisc Science measurement tools for iPad

Im running iPad project called Mobiluck involved six Finnish high schools.  We have tested iPads and other tablets in classroom teaching and documentation tools, in project based learning, in sports, flipped classroom, in use of augmented reality applications. And now we testing iPad as science tool. 

 Project bought 12 Labdisc Measurement tools made by Globisens Ltd. Each school get two measurement devices for use if physics, chemistry, math, geography classes. From Globisens page some features of these science devices: Ambient Temperature, Barometer, Colorimeter, Dissolved Oxygen, External Temperature, GPS, IR Temperature, pH, Relative Humidity, Sound Level, Turbidity, UV. Accelerometer, Air Pressure, Ambient Temperature, Current, Distance (Motion), External Temperature, Light, Microphone, Universal Input, Voltage . . . 

We had training session for natural science teachers last week. At first their  download a Globilab iPad app for teachers iPads. After couple hours of theory they went outside to take measurements like air pressure, moisture, ambient temperature, distance . . Teachers where quite inspired of many possibilities Labdisc offers.  I will share more results later on.  



Our Labdisc tools for high school use. 

Enviro
Gensci
Biochem
Physio

  Ltd

One Labdisc tutorial from Labdisc Youtube channel. How to use Labdisc outside classroom. 

Google Forms for Teachers

In past few weeks I have been using a lot of Google drive in collaborative writing with high school first graders. Results has been so  good that we have continued our courses team work theme. In media project week we are doing quizzes with Google forms. Topic is use of media during school week. Students fill questions in the evening. 

First multiple choice question is about time spending in different media and also there is open question about which and why they use certain social media tools. We have parents evening this week and students promised tell the truth:) in forms and let parents see they media time.








Second form is embed Youtube video Social media revolution and open question is to define social media as a concept. 

Most of these guides are from Free technology for teachers made by Richard Byrne

How to create images based quizzes
80 ways to use Google forms in classroom
Tutorials: Google forms for teachers
8 Steps to create Google Forms
How to insert videos into Google forms
A short guide to creating and grading

iPad app Coachmyvideo for sport teachers

I work in Voionmaa high school (Finland, Jyväskylä), which has special task for help athletes to do both practice and study well. We use iPad in sports, shoot videos from training from hockey to track and field. Students and teachers take videos, edit with iMovie. It also a good material to promote your school

 Training videos




 One favorite app is Coachmyvideo. Our hockey coach Mika Lievonen uses app in his training . You can make slow motions, frame by frame, forward and reverse, compare to videos or photos each other. One good feature is drawing tool,  it also calculates angles. 

Photo from two videos feature