I blogged a few months ago about how using virtual reality in the classroom and truly enhance the learning experience for students. I now want to share how I have taken going on virtual reality "trips" to having students create their own VR experiences with CoSpaces! Yes...I said..STUDENTS CREATING VR!! Always a goal of mine is to get students to go from consuming technology to creating with it. CoSpaces is a fun and engaging way for students to be creative while also demonstrating understanding.
After students researched chosen destinations after reading the book Highest, Coldest, Hottest, Deepest, they demonstrated understanding by creating an infographic to explain facts about their destination.
The end results blew me away! Each student created a VR field trip and then shared their creations with class members!
Other uses for CoSpaces:
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https://cospac.es/joGI
https://cospac.es/mNTR
CoSpace website discusses many other ways to utilize this in classrooms:
After students researched chosen destinations after reading the book Highest, Coldest, Hottest, Deepest, they demonstrated understanding by creating an infographic to explain facts about their destination.
The end results blew me away! Each student created a VR field trip and then shared their creations with class members!
Other uses for CoSpaces:
- Book reports: Create the setting of your story. We have been reading Shiloh, and my students have been hooked by this book. I had them create a VR scene of Marty's home and Judd's home.
- Demonstrate new learning: I had a student decide on his own to create an amazing infographic about the Oregon Trail. He's been reading a nonfiction book on this topic during independent reading. He emailed me on a Saturday morning his amazing final project. Of course, I right away opened his work and was taken back to the time of covered wagons, and learned some interesting facts at each stop!
https://cospac.es/OkwP
https://cospac.es/Vbfq
https://cospac.es/EVjg
https://cospac.es/joGI
https://cospac.es/mNTR
CoSpace website discusses many other ways to utilize this in classrooms:
- Storytelling
- Modeling 3-Dimensional figures (without the mess of glue and sticky fingers!)
- Creative play (let students shine with their creativity!)
- Virtual Exhibitions
- Infographics (my favorite use so far!)