Kuula 360 gallery

I have been using Panoraven but recently it had become chargeable so I have switched over to Kuula. Love that it is able show a few 360 videos within a single iframe with the selection of the photo from the thumbnail bar at the bottom.

My earlier post on Panoraven, momento360 and Instavr

http://ezitnew.blogspot.com/2019/03/momento360.html

Kuula is equally user friendly and you can easily create a tour with multiple photo uploads, similar to that of Panoraven.

Select create tour from the menu.

Add the title and click on select images and choose from your files the 360 images to upload.

You can choose the transition type. Remember to click on post.

To get the link or code to embed on your site, click on share under my tour.

With a free plan, you can build a complete walk-through tour. However, hotspots will not be visible to anyone except yourself using the free plan. 

You are able to see the photos and move between them using the thumbnail bar with the free plan.

On the free account you can upload a maximum of 25 images at one time and a total of 100 images each month. 

The following are 360 photos taken by the students taken by the students during the Sustainable Singapore Gallery Learning Journey.

https://kuula.co/share/collection/79FTK?logo=1&info=1&fs=1&vr=0&zoom=1&sd=1&autop=10&thumbs=1

Creation tools in Google Earth

 I have been creating kmz files for my studies for enquiry based learning and virtual GI.

We can also get the students to create a tour using Google Earth. This will be useful especially in story telling and the topic on tourism.

One advantage of using Google Earth for projects is that they can share their project and collaborate with other students.

10 ways to use Google Earth with students by freetech4teachers

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/10-ways-to-use-google-earth-in-your.html?m=1

How I use Google Earth in Geography:

Sec 1 

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec-1-geog-2021/google-earth

Sec 2 

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec-2-geog/using-google-earth

Sec 3 

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec3geog/google-earth

Sec 4 

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec-4-geography/google-earth

You can also see my other posts on Google Earth by clicking on the label "Google Earth" below

AR and VR in the virtual classroom

https://youtu.be/BBXg3YAjEj4  

Jason (Australia)

VR – getting students to empathize and understanding better in the VR environment

Google expedition 

List of 360 expeditions 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M0i7JpBHAAfjPNBRSfnShfMa9OztwG7lJdN-VCpwKEg/edit?usp=sharing        

360 excursions in Youtube        

Figment AR– create portals  - like window or doorways to a new environment e.g. under the sea looking at the coral reef in an AR environment. You can create a series of portals. Students move around the classroom and enter different portals to explore the 360 videos or pictures in these portals.

Merge EDU 

Merge cube  - can print and make into a cube. The layers can be created by students in apps.

Merge explorer app

The overlays will appear when it scans the Merge cube.

Many cards to choose from.

E.g. Click on the card to learn more about planets or

Journey to the core  - click and explore each layer of earth’s internal structure

Student can use screen record to create a tutorial

57 degrees north  can also be used with merge cube

Tiltballs, rubics cube  – maths

 

Create AR

Shapes 3D create Geometry AR

AR Makr – recreate a story e.g. 3 little pigs 

Students create e.g. water cycles Or use it to label parts of tree in an AR environment

 

Cospace – add quizzes –can use with merge cube

Use it for narrative

Student can Create a video e.g.

Human impact on River

Impacts of man on environment – Rainforest – labelled layers  structure with forest sound etc

Tutorial

Google slides and zoom for instruction.

Due to COVID, it has also created opportunities for companies to offer schools the opportunities for VR LJ

https://youngnautilus.com/programmes/school-learning-journeys/virtual-learning-journeys

https://armaker.space

Should also explore the following recommended by 赖世雄

https://www.classvr.com/school-virtual-reality-news/educational-vr-lesson-ideas/

 

                          

 

 

Virtual learning journey

The video below is a 360 video of the Chinatown LJ for Tourism GI 2020. You can also move horizontally through the 360 video by dragging your finger across the screen if you are using your handphone. You may also pause the video and swipe on the screen for the 360 view. Though you cannot experience the smell, the sight and sound would be an amazing VR experience.

You can watch it in VR if you open up the video in YouTube. Experience the virtual reality with VR glasses. Virtual Tourism GI

More of 2020 tourism GI here 

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/tourism-gi/photo-gallery-2020

Did a virtual Coastal GI in UK too using Google Earth. An overseas virtual learning journey!

Gotten the students to make observation using street view as well using the ruler in Google Earth to do measurements. I actually gotten the students to 'fly' back to Singapore to compare the size of the one we have at ECP with that in UK. Gotten them to think why are the breakwaters wider in UK.

Google Earth Kmz file and worksheet I have created can be downloaded from my Google site@

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec3geog/google-earth

Sec 1 virtual Water GI using Google Earth. Let's fly over to Lorong Halus!
Students learn more about the history of the place.
https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec-1-geog/geographical-investigation/5-lorong-halus-wetlands

They can also see how the place was in the past using the time slider with Google Earth.
https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec-1-geog/google-earth

Then visit the various location via the street view on Google Earth.

For sec 2 we actually gotten the students to annotate a picture of their neighbourhood to show why it is a unique place for them. Some were not able to be there so they made use of Google Earth and screenshot the street view. They drag the pegman to the spot where there is blue line to see the area in street view.

Updated  5 June- Alex shared on the following 360 video of the Toa Payoh Neighbourhood.

This also reminded me of the sharing on using VR for Housing GI shared by Hua Yi sec
http://geogshare.blogspot.com/2019/11/vr-in-geography.html

Updated Aug 2020: Use of VR by Ms Yong from Teck Whye Sec

https://www.schoolbag.edu.sg/story/first-person-real-issues-virtual-classroom

Do also look at my earlier post on the use of MOE arcgis resources.
http://geogshare.blogspot.com/2020/03/arcgis-resources.html

I have always love Google Earth - My earlier posts on the use of Google Earth:

http://ezitnew.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Earth

The use of Google Earth definitely encourage real world exploration. It enables the students to overcome the constraints of space and time, bringing the world into the classroom. Google Earth allows students to locate and explore different parts of the world and the time slider allow one to compare the before-and-after images of an area.   This can definitely help to spark curiosity about the causes and impacts of change as what I have mentioned earlier about the Sec 1's study of Lorong Halus.  

In instances where the location of a study is difficult to reach, teachers can take students on virtual tours. Virtual tours may be in the form of the drag and drop Pegman icon on Google Street View's 3D view. The students could take a virtual trip to see why Machu Picchu in Peru attracts the tourists by moving around the ruins left by the Inca civilisation as well as experience the amazing view from the mountain top. 

Students can zoom, pan, and rotate the orientations of their screen in Google Earth to help them understand geographical space, place, and scale. As mentioned above, the students can use the search and zoom functions on Google Earth to explore Lorong Halus. The ability to observe features in Google Earth by manipulating the map scale actively and easily allows students to have a better sense of how the waterway, e.g Punggol waterway, are connected at a locale and even factors that may affect the water quality in the waterway. 

My Sec 3 students have also enjoyed measuring the breakwater in UK and compare that to the one at ECP using the ruler function in Google Earth. In doing so they could better understand the geographical concept of scale as well as making observations on the reasons for the difference in sizes.  Spatial analysis could be carried out and exploration of the real world without them actually being there with virtual field trips!

I have created a Virtual Coastal GI using Google Earth and simulations in school.

You can read more here:

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec3geog/geographical-investigation/gi---coast/2020-virtual-coastal-gi-and-fieldwork-simulation

Cospaces and blocky in creating VR experiences for students

Applauding the efforts of the team from Hua Yi Sec in using VR in teaching Geography concepts.

You can log into cospaces and look at the 3 experiences which they have created to get the students to explore the unique features of a Place in Geography.
 You can search for Clementi, Tiong Bahru and Ang Mo Kio in cospaces.

Definitely excited to learn about Cospaces and how you can add the animated characters to theVR experience using Blocky. Will definitely explore!

They have also created the VR experience as a virtual reccee for their Upper Sec fieldwork at Orchard Road.

They have shared other VR resources available online such as the one on Malaria in Tanzania.

https://youtu.be/ilyQMA0tq-U

and the ST simulation of rising sea level in Singapore.

https://graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2017/rising-seas/virtual-reality/index.html

360 view of an sea arch:

https://kuula.co/share/7YfxH?fs=1&vr=1&iosfs=1&zoom=1&thumbs=1&chromeless=1&logo=1&logosize=120

Momento360, Panoraven and InstaVR

Finally figured out how to embed the 360 photos using momento360.

1. Capture the photo or video using a 360 camera.

2. Upload your 360s from your computer or smartphone to Momento360.  Sign in, click on the camera icon in the top right corner, and you’ll be automatically prompted to choose the photos you want to upload.

3. Select the 360 you want to embed, then click on the share icon. You’ll see this: Click on “Share or Embed a Link,” then on “Create Link.” Select the link and copy it to your clipboard.

 4. Now you’re ready to embed the link on your blog or Google site using the HTML code

Replace the <> text with the link you copied from the previous step.

https://blog.momento360.com/how-to-embed-360-degree-photos-on-your-website-or-blog-67595173bcb1

360 photos of our villa at Banjaran hotspring resort in Ipoh, Malaysia taken in Dec 2019 using Samsung 360 gear. Love how you can drag and look around the room including the ceiling.

Using Panoraven seemed more straightforward. Free for personal use. https://panoraven.com/en

Just click on the icon to copy the code and insert it using HTML on the blog. Below is a 360 photo taken at Sentosa.

Love Panoraven as you can add a few images and not only one. Example below of Penang Hill.

Instavr.co seemed much better with the option of adding information and hotspot(to link to another 360 photo e.g. another room). However the ability to publish on web seems to be offered only in the pro version which is chargeable.  I have used the iframe (step 4 for Momento above). The Watermark is splashed all over as can be seen below and the embedded iframe didn't show up on my phone, only on desktop.

https://cdn.instavr.co/html/HjJmkAqeDRwH8CcjU4Io_app.html?bust=e25sgzxdjfv