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The Periodic Table of Apps for AR and VR

Without a doubt one of the most innovative educators I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with is Mark Anderson aka ICT Evangelist. Mark...

AR vs VR in Education: Round 4

Apologies to those who have been following this series and wondering what happened to Part 4. Traditional Christmas chaos kicked in at...

Top 10 #ViveEDU apps of 2017

It’s that time of year when people share their Best of the Year retrospectives and since this year has been so dominated by all things VR...

Into The Deep: Operation Apex

I’ve always had an interest in aquatic life, likely born from my dad being a keen fisherman and my uncle owning a tackle shop when I was...

The #CPDinVR Panel - December 2017

After a month off due to a combination of illness, moving house and a bunch of other commitments, I hosted the final #CPDinVR event of...

Working with virtual SEN students

The biggest and longest running educational conference here in the UAE is GESS which takes place at the World Trade Centre each year....

Space: The Virtual Frontier

Last week saw the launch of something quite special though – Home: a VR Spacewalk for the HTC Vive. Not only is this a stellar (no pun...

Meaningful, multi-platform VR integration

As many of you will know, I work as Head of Digital Learning and Innovation across JESS Dubai. JESS is a group of three schools – two...

AR vs VR in Education: Round 3

What's better for education - AR or VR? That's the question I'm exploring across this five part series. Obviously I feel that they both...

Welcome to the Jungle: Amazon Odyssey

One place that has always fascinated me is the Amazon Rainforest. It also makes for a wonderful topic of study in schools and our Year 5...

Why AR? 8 reasons to use AR in education

Most of the presentations I’ve been asked to deliver at events recently have been solely focused on VR in education so I was happy to get...

Using AR/VR to enter fantasy worlds

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...

Animated diagrams in AR using JigSpace

I initially held off on discussing any of the new ARKit developed apps when iOS 11 launched for one main reason - I couldn’t actually use...

AR vs VR in Education: Round 2

What's better for education - Ar or VR? That's the question I'm exploring across this five part series. Obviously I feel that they both...

VR with purpose: viewing 3D models in Kubity

One of the most fun projects I developed whilst teaching Computing a couple of years ago was a 3D design project with Year 5 students...

AR vs VR in Education: Round 1

With Tim Cook and Apple pushing AR whilst Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook push VR, there has never been a brighter light shone on the world...

5 AR mask apps for Halloween

I’m a huge fan of Halloween, probably due to a somewhat unhealthy obsession with horror movies growing up! I also love bringing the...

Aurasma: a retrospective

Like anyone interested in augmented reality, I have been closely following the launch of iOS11 and the debut of the much heralded ARKit...

8 key reasons VR will transform education

It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me. I've just completed a run of four conferences in ten days, with multiple opportunities to...

VR for Empathy panel discussion

On September 15th I held the most recent #CPDinVR session inside Engage. This was a special panel discussion about the power of VR to...

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