Although this is a panorama of San Francisco Bay uploaded into a VR app and hotspots added, we can apply this same approach to a class – for the emissions science fair piece… take a wide panorama of a class or library, an outside area including carparks, bus stops, bins, water taps, toilets, vege gardens etc and the third more difficult element of planes, trains and automobiles (you know what I mean).
Hotspots can jump back and forth between scenes and my thoughts are just two and leave the planes and distance pieces for an embedded video in one of the scenes… we can add a variety of elements into the clickable regions of the pictures which are embedded in an approved Education WordPress website ( I am planning on asking a school to host the page on their school site – We will run the expereince full screen so we won’t see any items relating to what the site really is. I will test this link on an iPad, but won’t polish this until you are happy with this approach. PowerPoint with concepts link (only available for NTschools staff – is here)
So… drag the image around and click once on items to open the link and click the icon again to close it. The Circle item jumps to another scene (Sausalito) which is not that panoramic and doesn’t have any items – so stay in the Fort Mason scene… I like the immersive sounds as you drag around to when the hostel comes into view. Click the sound icon to turn it off… it fades out as you drag away…
Right click on the pano to go full screen and esc to restore…
This is an experiment page… for my fellow travellers to SFO read on… for my NT Education colleagues, experiments for the science fair are above this section.
Hello. My name’s Mark Christie. What I wanted to talk about here is my workflow for preparing a blog on travel. I’ve just returned from a trip to San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento, where I attended an innovators conference for educators. Who are Adobe Creative educators. Four Australians were invited from the educator community to travel to San Jose and participate in this incredible conference.
So how do I do it?
Well, I went to three places. One of them I returned to. So I left Australia, went to San Francisco, stayed there for three or so days. We all then caught the train down to San Jose to attend the conference. Then we split up for a bit. I went to Sacramento, the capital of California, to go and fly in an ultralight at a little town called Lodi, made famous by a song from Creedence Clearwater Revival called Stuck in Lodi Again. After that great adventure, I then made my way from Sacramento back to San Francisco. To spend another day exploring that great city, fog city, and then jumped on a plane to come back to Australia. So three locations and that’s the first thing I do. I go, okay, I need to divide this geographically. And that really means getting a map and putting pins on the map for those three locations. And then within those three locations, dot pointing the places that we visited, whether it’s the journey part or the destination part. Getting from the airport to the hostel, getting from the hostel to various locations. Visiting famous sites. The Golden Gate Bridge. Lombard Street, Fisherman’s Wharf, Coit Hill and Tower, and the other places that we visited or saw such as Sausalito, Alcatraz, Bison Park and so on. They can be on a more detailed map and then photo albums can support the the journey to each of those destinations. Reflections can be inserted into the blog. So whether it was eating a meal in Chinatown or eating a Bubba Gumps at Fisherman’s Wharf or trying a chocolate sundae at Ghirardelli’s these all become little events where you can reflect on it. Having those factual. Road map points documented. You can then start assembling your blog. If the book’s just a travelog and you’re not promoting any particular thing, it’s not a commercial blog, then you just tell your story. And if there are some interesting anecdotes along the way, then you include those in your story. I don’t write my blogs for commercial purposes. I write them. So people visiting may find something useful in there for their visits, or there may be an education twist in there. There may be some facts that students might find interesting, such as the fact that Sacramento is the capital of California and not Los Angeles or San Francisco or San Diego. So what I suggest you do is have a look at the blog article over on https://xsymetrix.com.au and then think about how I’ve taken a trip of, say, ten or so days divided that into geographic locations. And then within each of those geographic locations, I have Broken down the places and events within each of those locations to provide an overview along with photographs and maybe a video or two. That’s it. Thank you for listening to this and hope it’s been useful.