Talked about my process of recreating real locations in virtual reality.
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You should never watch movies on your phone – as David Lynch so eloquently puts it: But that doesn’t mean you can’t use your phone to make a movie or at least in our context a short educational video. With…
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This is a printable cheatsheet that I made for my tutorials on filming using your phone.
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“If the statistics are boring, then you’ve got the wrong numbers.” ― Edward Tufte (pioneer of data visualization ) Graphs are often used as frequently as they should, but when they are used they are often just bar-charts or pie-charts. Personally I…
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Now with clouds, the guard house and a llama.
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This video on Twitter had quite an immediate visceral reaction, from its viewers. Perhaps with you as well. The responses on Twitter were very binary: “No, just no” “I haven’t seen a class of kids so engaged in my teaching…
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A well written Learning Outcome is crucial to what we do, but the process of making them can be tedious and it can sometimes feel that we are turning our expansive field of interest into something clinical, dry and scientific.…
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A tutor came to my department looking for a better way to simplify an activity she had been doing in her courses. She had a favourite interactive CD that she had to borrow from the Library at the start of…
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A compilation of some of the famous models used in learning design. I made none of these. This was for sticking up on the wall next to me.
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Recreating Peeking Man’s Room that Echoes. Using Touch Designer and a Kinect. The final version should be projected on a large screen.
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Recently I found this clip from 1973 in the documentary BBS: The Documentary (2005). “A highly interactive graphic based individualized computer-based education system” “self-paced and tailored to the needs of each individual student”. It is the dream of many an…
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A scene from the terrible movie “Better off Dead” that really demonstrates the problems of traditional chalk and talk teaching.
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