G10 Tech Class #24

Today please keep working on finalizing your 3D Maps: whole school and your tour stop. Remember that the product that you need to turn in for these Maps assignment, is the animation/navigation of your maps, showing the whole school and then "zooming" into your Tour Stop. This can be an animation, a movie, etc.
You can use the applications/tools discussed in class:

• HyperCam captures the action from your Windows 9x or NT screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file.
• QuickTime: Capture video of what is happening of your screen and convert media into a variety of formats.
• FRAPS: Performs video capture, screen capture and can benchmark your fps! (Thank you Tim for suggesting this!)

Following G10 Project 2 Due dates, Plan is due today. Please visit last class blog post to go over the details for this stage, including:

• list of step by step (the lasts taks in the list should include: 
• posting your product online, 
• getting an URL for it 
• creating the QR code
• printing, adding group names and laminating the QR code
• placing it at the tour stop :-)
• timeline
• resources and tools to be used
• changes needed?

Your Process Journal needs to have entries for all the classeswe have been working on Project 2  (aprox 8) , so you can have it complete by the time you need to turn it in for Create stage :-)

Happy Halloween G10 students!

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 #20

Welcome to class # 20!!!!!

Today you will need to work on your 3D Map. Using Top-down and Bottom-up strategies you need to make a 3D map of the school as our starting point and then "zoom" into to groups' school tour stop. 
You can use:

• Google SketchUp and all the tips and tricks that our guest Speaker shared with you last class,
• Have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery 
• or any other tools that you may consider the best option for working on this assignment.

Based on your answers to Project 2 Activity 1 Form, I have listed the tour stops for each group in the List: Project 2 - G10 Tour Stops. Names and stops are highlighted in blue and red respectively.


Investigation was due last class, so if you haven't turned it in, pls do so today for 50% of the credit.


Organize your group members roles and you can also start working on Design stage. Look at Due Dates for Project 2 and plan accordingly

G10 Tech Class # 17

We will work on Investigate stage for Project 2.


Please visit last class's blog post to review the Project's overview, dynamic and more.


Let's look into these: 

• 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?
• QR codes bring Museum tours to life (Article)
• what application/tool do you think best suits your needs: website, video, animation, voicethread, animated comic, web book, etc?
• If you choose the product to be a movie: what kind of movie should it be? (Documentary, informercial, etc)

Please post your answers to this Form.

Please work on Investigation stage today the lines of inquiry:

• QR codes
• different kinds of presentations used in digital supported tours
• 3D map creating
• etc.

Using Top-down and Botom-up strategies we will work on making a 3D map of the school as our starting point. 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

Carefully define your product design specifications. Investigation will be due next class.. Due Dates for Project 2 posted.


Next class we will have a Guest Speaker to address Movie making tips. Friday another Guest Speaker will address Google Sketchpad 3D Map creating. Exciting!

Don't forget to start your process Journal today!



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. 

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. 

G10 A-3 TechClass #2

Following our activity last class, we will continue developing the mind map on the Design Cycle.

Continue working collaboratively with your partners. The final piece of work is due by the end of this class.

I will go over the assignments submitting process before class ends.

For instructions on how to submit your Assignments please click here.

Let's be paperless!!! :-)