みなさんこんにちは!!!
今日はARに関する私のプロジェクトについて話します。I'm sorry, I'm just a little bored :)
Hello again everyone, today I will be talking about my Augmented Reality (AR) project (that's what the Japanese text above says btw). It sounds really cool and technological ('cause it is) and a bit complicated but in actuality, it is pretty straightforward. Essentially you are creating a worksheet with added modern and technological design features. I'll go over these features in a minute but first I will explain the concept and the process of completing this task.
So let's make one thing clear first, how is AR different from VR; virtual reality? With VR everything is made in and formed around in a virtual environment. AR uses a real-world setting. Of course, that doesn't mean AR is changing the real world around you, it just... enhances it. I believe the best way to demonstrate this is using Google's AR website. Google explains AR by saying "Augmented reality overlays digital content and information onto the physical world — as if they’re actually there with you, in your own space." Another difference between AR and VR is the devices that they require. AR doesn't need any special devices besides your phone and a QR code reading app, but VR requires a headset and other tools like controllers to enhance the experience.
Now let's talk about the task itself. As usual, my dear friend Cansu and I worked on this project together. We chose our city to explore to be Tokyo because... いいんじゃない? The original plan was to use 3D models of the places that we wanted the students to visit but unfortunately, most of these places were either too big to be modelled or they simply did not have a model that we could use. So we decided to use QR codes instead. Using QR codes made the whole process so much easier, but again it had a downside. The AR aspect of the work was not enough so we used 360 videos from Youtube instead. I believe in the end this turned out to be a better option as it would be very difficult to show most places to visit in Tokyo with 3D models only as the city is famous for its streets and stations. The rest of the task is pretty standard, a worksheet in which students answer some questions. We wanted this task to be as communicative as possible so we mostly asked opinion questions and allowed students to consult the internet to find the answers that they are looking for. There was also a second part of this worksheet. We asked students to create a poster as a project. Ideally digital but a normal poster would be fine as well.
I find this method, including AR in the worksheets, very interesting and I'm surprised that I haven't thought about this before. It's simple and definitely attention-grabbing. I will make sure to incorporate this method in my worksheets.
That's all from me now, you can find the worksheet here. Take care.
P.S.: Give it a few seconds for the website to load all pages fully.
P.S.: Don't panic if the QR code for the third question isn't working, you might be viewing it too small. Here's the link of that code.
Edit: Here are the images in case the link isn't working.
