Do you like the graphic? If you’re a Stranger Things fan, you'll no doubt recognise it and are likely wondering how I made it. The answer is this cool little web app which you can find here. So indeed, this piece is somewhat inspired by the fantastic slice of sci-fi brilliance that is Stranger Things. I absolutely love that show and having recently finished the new season on Netflix, it had me thinking a lot about the whole concept of portals to parallel worlds. It’s a concep

I’m a huge fan of Halloween, probably due to a somewhat unhealthy obsession with horror movies growing up! I also love bringing the spooky fun of Halloween into the classroom and have implemented a wide range of ghoulish activities over the years. One thing that we all associate with Halloween is masks and this is something that augmented reality can do very well. Indeed it was the Snapchat/Facebook live filter phenomenon that (along with Pokemon Go!) brought AR to the masses

One of my all time favourite lessons was a session I put together and delivered in 2013 with some Year 4 students. They were studying Vikings and the saga of Beowulf and we were helping them develop their creative writing skills by integrating a couple of iPad apps.. We used Morfo to turn the students into the Viking character of their own sagas and then an app called Epic Citadel to help them with the setting. Epic Citadel was a tech demo from Epic Games and provided an empt

A couple of weeks ago I came across Gabsee on Twitter. Its a fun little app for creating AR avatars that has the unique feature of taking your selfie and applying it to the avatar (you just add the hair and clothes.) You can select one of several actions for your character and then place it on a surface in the real world via AR. It's a fun, simple tool and not one that is necessarily aimed at the classroom. That being said, other avatar creation apps like Tellagami were nev