This week I have chatted with a few of you about the possibilities being offered by a new technology called ‘augmented reality’. This video clip gives a brief overview of the applications of ‘AR’ — see what you think:
If you’d like to try out AR for yourself, you need a computer, a printer, a webcam [...]
Here are a collection of avatars with the site links where you can go to build your own.
The first site Meez offers both animated and static avatar images.
Then there’s Portrait Illustrator Maker who helped me to create this simple but effective image -
Next is Weeworld which is a very cute site that generated this rather attractive [...]
Here is a Voicethread that I’ve set up to gather the dreams of all you wanna be superheroes out there. If you don’t know what a voicethread is, then visit the site for a free account. Then, when you’ve registered, post your comment. I look forward to hearing from you.
Are you a shinobi master? This great little online game has been designed by a high school student and is weirdly addictive – throw shuriken stars at nouns, verbs and adjectives – I have of course been ranked a grammar ninja grandmaster – who among you can challenge my shadow warrior claim to fame?
Take a [...]
I’ve come across a great site this week with a whole bunch of free Brain Training games. I decided to have a quick tour around the site and 2 hours later, had to drag myself away from the screen in order to get some marking done! My favourite game is probably the ‘bird rescue’ challenge [...]
‘Freerice’ is an online interactive site with a range of multi-choice educational games. You can try your hand at identifying capital cities, maths questions, vocabulary, Art history, foreign language vocabulary and even chemical symbols.
For every correct answer you secure, you will automatically earn 10 grains of rice which will be donated to those who face starvation [...]
Here is a short animated 3D film that I made today and posted to Youtube. It is my first experiment with an online application called ‘Xtranormal’ which is great fun. As their motto states — if you can type, you can make movies on this site!
Now as many of my students may know, I am officially a Jedi knight but just in case there are any doubters among you, here I am all set to do battle with the vile Sith on behalf of the Alliance! OK, OK so, here’s the deal. If you go to Photofunia you’ll find a [...]
This is my ‘Doppelme’ avatar – created in just a few minutes using a clever little free site that you can explore yourself by clicking on the link. The avatars are entirely customisable and once created, you can download the image to your hard drive, or upload it to any social networking site.
There are certain [...]
Well, I’ve just found a fantastic way to lose an hour or two of an evening! I found my way to an online multimedia poster site called ‘Glogster‘ and found a whole world of creative possibilities just waiting to be explored!! I’ve been like a kid in a candy shop…with a very large sum of [...]
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