My students need a class set of virtual reality headsets, and some wi-fi enabled devices to use in the headsets. The iPod Touch will serve as the device being used with the headsets.
Virtual and augmented reality are available as accessible media, if you can afford the tools. As a career and technical education teacher, I want to introduce my students to the future of media on the web, but my district and department can't afford to bring the tools into my classroom. More than a third of my students are from low-income households and don't have access to technology outside of my classroom. That's why we need your help!
In order to teach my students about virtual and augmented reality, I need to be able to provide a class set of 30 viewers (Google Cardboard) and as many wi-fi enabled devices as possible to use in the viewers.
My school offers classes in computer science, engineering, web and graphic design, animation and digital video. We are the middle school arts magnet for our district, and I want my students to be learning relevant and emerging technologies that are available to them to tell their own stories.
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My Project
These resources will be used by students to create their own original Virtual Reality content, primarily in Game Design. Students will be using A-Frame to code Virtual Reality games that will be designed, tested, and played by students for students. We will also be entering a game design contest by the end of the year.
My vision is to have students create original VR games that focus on rigorous and relevant topics, but without your help, none of this will be a reality.
We will be coding on our iMacs in A-Frame, a web framework for building virtual reality experiences built by Mozilla. By pairing mobile devices, in this case Apple iPods, with Google Cardboard, students will be able to view their VR creations and test the functionality, i.e. see if the button on Google Cardboard works the way they intended. I have asked for 20 viewers and 8 iPods (we actually have 30 students in each class) to help us get started making Virtual Reality games.
Your donation to this project will ensure that students are being introduced to relevant and accessible technologies right now!
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