Without a doubt one of the most stunning educational virtual reality experiences is Google Earth VR. This free app is a great way to contextualise geographical learning by letting students teleport around the globe and explore our planet first hand. You can be stood next to the Christ The Redeemer statue in Brazil as the sun sets then with the click of a button be flying along the River Thames. You can stand atop the Eiffel Tower and observe the layout of Paris. You can stand

I’m a huge fan of Simon Sinek’s “Start with the why?” concept and the Golden Circle model that stems from it which is why it forms the backbone on which this new series on VirtualiTeach. Each edition will focus on a specific VR or AR app and break down the Why, How and What of its use in education. I hope that teachers find this approach useful and it helps them get to grips with some new tools. First up – Google Tour Creator. The Why Empowering students to use technology to

Guest post by Alex Johnson There is a line in Steve’s article about Tilt Brush from last year that echoes my own initial impressions of Google's VR painting application - “While I enjoyed the process of using the app immensely, I was never producing anything with any real artistic skill.” Now, as with most things, the more time you spend practicing something, the more you learn and grow. At first, I wasn’t able to achieve very much artistically with Tilt Brush. Slowly, howev

Guest post by Dr Micah Shippee “During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a standalone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut’s tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (The day before, we’d visited the same spot in 1334 BC and had seen Tutankhamen’s empire in all its glory.) In my next class, Biology, we traveled through a human heart and watched it pumping from the inside, just like in that old movie, Fantastic Vo