The Machu Picchu VR project has won the Gold Award in the highly competitive Sustainability Category at the 2020 QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Conference! Around 1500 groups representing educational technology companies, universities and education-focused NGOs from 74 countries submitted projects for…
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Theme Change The new theme I selected has a fresher look that connects better to the NMIT colours, the changes are purely around colour and fonts and not interaction or changes of tool locations except for three new features: Accessibility…
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Working on a redesign of our Moodle Course pages. Working from the Moove Theme and using Multitopic Format.
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A reference library and micro-course for those new or transitioning to online teaching; providing helpful resources and activities for enabling, enhancing and extending online student engagement and learning.
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The standard practice at NMIT for planning out how a course was going to be delivered and what content and activities were going to be in it was to use a word document like this: While this did provide tutors…
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This is my newly updated Frankencable. Its the swiss-army knife of cables, useful for any trips out of the house. We got Networking, charging, multiple audio, composite, USB and HDMI.
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It took a while but with some help, I timestamped this useful video for beginners on using Touchdesigner. It is by Ben Voigt product manager at Derivative. 03:50 - structure 04:50 - navigation 08:30 - resizing nodes (don't) 11:00 -…
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This is my quick and opinionated guide on how to write assessments for those new to the topic. Feel free to write a comment below if you feel I have missed anything. What is an assessment? This guide is interested…
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01. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – THE BRICK02. Black Strobe – Brenn Di Ega Kjerke03. Moderat – The Mark (Interlude)04. Mat3r Dolorosa – Un jour de pluie (feat. Djohn)05. Trentemøller – Take Me Into Your Skin (Original Mix)06. Boy…
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When I need to date a file or a meeting note I type in “td” and the “td” – gets replaced with the day’s date and my initials, written backwards to make it easier to list by date: 2020-03-10 APT…
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This iteration, appears as a “toast” message. Disappearing within 10 seconds. Unfortunatly I am still unable to display when the next assessment is or how many students are currently active. These two elements are pretty key. One other problem I…
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This is the design modification I am currently using in Moodle. A lot more slicker I think. Based on the Snap theme.
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When using Unity and Blender I use a 3d mouse in my left hand to move around the environment, but I still needed to move my hand to the keyboard to switch between Transform, Scale and Rotate. This Autohotkey script…
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When doing course design, I am often developing over the work previously created by others. They can soon become overly cluttered with new material. The solution to many is to just provide more instructions or tutorials on how to use…
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“The QS Reimagine Education awards, known as the ‘Oscars’ of Education’, celebrate innovative approaches that enhance student learning outcomes and employability. This year saw 1518 innovators representing educational technology companies, universities and education-focused NGOs from 84 “countries submit their projects…
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Made the entrance to the market Added the public toilet Added the other school Added the mural about recycling added more life – with fans and moving train Made an alleyway to the bus, with view of bus Added all the…
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This was a quick test of using photogrammetry in Unity. Josh from Dronemate in Nelson scanned the new CGI Lab (before it had computers). I quickly threw in some smoke, spooky music and Slenderman for a Halloween theme. As you…
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The Machu Picchu VR project (Virtual Reality Experiential Education for a more Sustainable Future) is shortlisted for the Sustainability Award at the QS Reimagine Education Awards – The so-called Oscars of Education. The most competitive yet with over 1500 applications…
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