Spring Break

Just a quick update: It's officially spring break & my Augmented Reality group and I have come up with a very fun topic for our AR project.  We've got some excellent clues to lead participants to figure out our famous historical figure.  It'll be a lot of fun to see who can guess our historical figure.

I'll be trying out the free AR app, Aurasmic when doing the AR project.  Hopefully everything goes smoothly and it's not too hard to figure out.  Have a wonderful spring break everyone!

Week 11: Augmented Reality

I was extremely confused with the concept of Augmented Reality and trying to understand what exactly it is at first. We had a guest speaker Mr. Honeycutt who talked with our class and explained to us more about Augmented Reality. He discussed Aurasma, a free augmented reality application. In small groups, we discussed some simple questions regarding augmented reality and we also searched for our own free augmented reality apps.  There were a bunch of free ones and many people found some interesting ones to share with the class.

We will begin working on our AR group project where we are going to use the Aurasma application to share clues to our topic and link them to a common logo/symbol.  Other group members need to figure out our topic using the clues.  It sounds like a really fun project so I am looking forward to completing it and seeing the other groups' projects also.

Week 10: Internet Privacy & Digital Identity

Week 10 was about internet privacy & digital identity.  I learned a lot about how information is shared on the information & got to share my thoughts on internet privacy and digital identity through our discussion posts.  I also learned about how some people are having issues with Google's privacy policy changes.  It's actually quite scary what is shared over the information.  We need to be extra safe with what we share over the internet.  Definitely do not share any personal information over the internet.  This also makes me more skeptical of Cloud Computing and storing my files in a cloud. If you'd like to hear more about my thoughts, check out my discussion post.

Week 9: Gesture Based Computing

For this week, we are learning about gesture based computing.  We got to choose a scenario and explain it in the discussion post.  I chose a game using gestures to dissect animals.  I think it would be a good game because a lot of people might be against dissecting real animals or might get grossed out doing it.  The game I chose would involve science and fine motor skills.  I wrote about how I'd like my game to be as realistic as possible and allow learners to use realistic tools to complete the dissection.

My Tsunami Evacuation Group 4 worked together last night to put the finishing touches on our project.  We did our evacuation route based out of Kahului, Maui. I thought this project was really interesting especially with the Tsunami in Japan occurring recently.  It allowed me to see what areas are in or out of the evacuation zone and also how to map out my own evacuation route just in case Hawai'i has a tsunami warning. We shared our evacuation routes on 2 social media tools: Picassa and Flickr.

Have a great week everyone, God Bless!

Week 8: Intellectual Property and Copyright

We had a guest speaker, Mr. Masaki who spoke to us about intellectual property and copyright.  I didn't know much about the rules of what is on the web.  Most people aren't aware of the digital rights and what is considered "stealing" on the internet.  There are many rules that are supposed to be followed when using music from other artists or when cover bands sing other artists' song that I wasn't even aware of.