G10 Tech Class #21

Today, we have better connectivity :-) so you will need to complete your 3D Map. Remember to use  Top-down and Bottom-up strategies to make your 3D map of the whole school as our starting point and then "zoom" into the groups' school tour stops: Project 2 - G10 Tour Stops.


If you stil need to download Google SketchUp, please see me about it so we do not clog the bandwidth.

Please organize your group members' roles to start working on Design stage. 

Include a variety of different designs/proposed solutions  (at least 3)

All proposed designs have to be accesible using a mobile device

Explain every part of each ideas/product solution

For explaining your designs, please use different techniques like story boards, sketches, labelled diagrams with explanations, etc.

Evaluate each design critically against the design specifications (assess what design specs each design meets or not)

Choose one design to build

Justify your choice of design and tool/app that you will be using

Look at Due Dates for Project 2 and plan accordingly.

Don't forget to make your Process Journal entry of the day!

G10 Tech Class #16

If you need some time to finish the last details of your products from Project 1 to turn them in today, please work on the first thing today (20 min aprox).


At 11.10m we will begin with Project 2: Digitally Enhanced Tour of WA

We will work on making a 3D map of the school to start. Please take a look at these:

• making a map of the school using Google SketchUp
• Have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery

Let's start thinking about the following for our Project 2:

• who would the audience be?
• what would they expect to get from the tour?
• what stops/places are we looking into listing in our tour?
• why?
• what are the highlights of WA that you think should be included in the tour?

Please post your answers to this Form.

The dynamic of the project would be the following:

• Regroup for this project with someone who you haven't work with in Project 1.
• decide where / how will we identify the stops needed for the Tour?
• assign one stop per group
• create a map of the school using Google SketchUp
• have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery
• create a storyboard and script of what your video/stop will be about
• choose the application/tool that you think best suits your needs: website, video, animation, voicethread, etc
• shoot video, take pics, conduct interviews, etc to get the content needed and synthesize it digitally
• out all links/postings together
• upload the product (movie, animation, etc)
• get an URL for it
• use a QR Code to identify the stop
• fully test QR codes, links, postings, videos, etc
• print and laminate a big QR code for your tour stop (your names on the back)
• install QR codes @ tour stops

Get Ready for 3D Learning: More with Google SketchUp

Brent Jacobsen tackled the basics of Google SketchUp in the “Start Thinking in 3D: Google SketchUp” webinar.  Now learn more about modeling, and watch your creativity come to life.  In this webinar, Brent will briefly review the basics of Google SketchUp and delve a little deeper into some of the more advanced tools and features of the program.