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Heidi SiwakGrade 6 Teacher

Dundas Central OntarioAnd

The Amazing Class 62

Thanks to …

Ian Chia, Esa Heltulla, Cynthia Jabar

My Hope For You

How Learning Can Be Process For Getting

There

Class 62

Our Project

Created the content for an Augmented Reality Tourism App for the town of Dundas that can be downloaded to iPhone or iPad through the App Store

Huh?

• Tourism brochure for a cell phone• Pictures• Research and Writing• Mapping• GPS• New technologies• Design – User Experience• Collaborate and Make Decisions

The seed of an ideagrew from a blog post.

Blogspot.com (Google hosted)

Collaboration over twitter

My Confession

I Didn’t Actually Own a

Don’t Be Afraid

Real World Learning

Allows Chaos/Uncertainty

Connects Students to Experts

Technology

Trust

Students are the Decision Makers

Real Project =Real Audience = High Engagement

Decision Making

Students Discuss, Plan, Decide Teacher Facilitates

Discussion and Planning

MaturityIf you don’t get the site you

want are you going to cry about it?

Justin C.

Me

User Experience

Real World Learning

Allows individual strengths to become

VISIBLE

Seating Plans Disappear

Blogged questions for Ian

Skype

Design Advice

Template

Learning to Crop and Resize

Mapping – GPS Location

Esa – Wordpress: Content Management Site

Problems????

• Weather

• Interruptions

• EQAO

• Lab was shutdown

• Technical

• Me

Worth Doing? Working with professionals has

been so amazing for me. How we got to

talk to them via Skype and Twitter … just so

cool.

Knowing that people are following what we

are doing and are interested makes me

not want to give up on the app project

When I go home and go on Mrs. Siwak’s blog and sometimes see my name in one of the posts, it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished more.

Being able to contribute to

the app project has made me feel like I was

important.

Being able to contribute to

the app project has made me feel like I was

important.

Impact

I didn’t know my students were also tweeting!

The Reveal

Class 62’s App

BETA VERSION

Links21 Century Classroom: http://heidisiwak.blogspot.com/ @heidisiwak

http://iliveoverhere.com/roadmap - our proposed planhttp://iliveoverhere.com/wiki - our collaborative wiki for

curriculum planninghttp://iliveoverhere.com/demoapp1 - a version of the

Augmented Reality app used commercially by a regional tourism board

Ian Chia @ianchia Cynthia Jabar @cynthiajabar Esa Hultella @idevbooks

Other Real World Learning Projects

• Thomas Tallis School of Creativity – designs their own school uniforms

• http://tallisuniform.tumblr.com/ • http://tallisgraphics.tumblr.com/

• The School at Columbia University redesigns school furniture http://aruliden.com/work/projects/the-school-at-columbia-university-tools-school/

• http://www.tools-at-schools.com/