Manufacturers set the pace in the Augmented Reality race
Vuforia® Expert Capture Technology and Microsoft’s HoloLens glasses were used to create a virtual guide hosted in the cloud and then accessed by engineers in a number of factories across the UK
Industry has been searching for some time for an answer to an ageing workforce and the worrying scenario of traditional engineering skills being potentially lost forever.
AR can be used to record skills as engineers are performing them, saving them in the Cloud for generations to come – almost like a virtual technical library.
Importantly, these instructions can be delivered at the point of use, which has been proven to speed up learning.
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more on AR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie
Kahoot presents Star Wars-based quizzes for different disciplines
https://create.kahoot.it/pages/ebe8eef7-a483-4392-97c9-44aea89f137a
An excellent opportunity to gamify your classes.
If you are not a Kahoot user yet, please consider: a) the Kahoots (quizzes) can be an excellent conversation starter (vs. assessment tool) b) the Kahoots can be modified to your liking (you can change the content)
here some screen-sharing capture to get a taste of the excitement:
Engineering
Astronomy
Some Very Good STEAM Websites to Use in Your Class
https://plus.google.com/+Educatorstechnology/posts/BTk2UjWECqJ
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/08/some-very-good-steam-websites-to-use-in.html
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering ,Art, and Math) tools to use in your classroom
provide teachers with a handy resource to use with their students to help them develop critical thinking skills and adopt ‘an engineering or design approach towards real-world problems while building on their mathematics and science base’.
download in PDF format from this link.