Guyda Armstrong explains the core materials (Editions) used on her course – Beyond the Text: The Book and its Body and how using Augmented Reality will connect students to supplemental resources and commentaries. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wGEbkDu_8] Read more
As my Dante course is the first one of the SCARLET pilot modules to run this year, I thought it would be useful to write a blog post detailing how we’ve pulled together the digital content. Unlike most other university courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy, my course is not primarily concerned with interpretation of the … Read more
It is usual in education to be overly cautious whenever a new technical innovation is heralded, preferring to concentrate, perhaps rightly, on its pedagogical benefits in terms of increasing educational value. Augmented Reality is no different. Advertising has brought Augmented Reality to the masses, gaining much publicity in such marketing campaigns as Lynx, where the public … Read more
Myself, Guyda and Laura met to commence the content creation process, creating a series of storyboards to illustrate a typical user journey. For the example resource material we used Guyda’s course – ‘Beyond the Text: The Book and its Body’ to construct a mock up of how users could interact with an Augmented ‘GLUE’ object … Read more