News stories and viral videos about drones seem to crop up on a fairly regular basis but what does the emergence of this new technology mean for education? Here are some of the potential uses of the technology, how it is being used in academia at the moment and considers some of the practical issues.
Tag: fieldwork
I wondered how people taking students out on fieldwork might make use of something like the AR Drone… For doing remote HD filming/imaging of locations… …and flips! (rad!) It’s not cheap, mind. And the range and battery life are limited (alth…
Digested Read A welcome return for an event that really should be a regular feature of the calendar. The technology has moved on in the last year and there seems to be more confidence and a sort of academic mischief-making in the air! The full sto…
I had obviously behaved well enough at last year’s showcase in Wales to be invited back for another event from the HEA funded Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Team. This year was at the rather lovely Preston Montford FSC just outside Shrewsbury. I had…
The Digested Digest Get out more! The Digest Fieldwork is an essential part of the learning experience for the geo, geosocial and life sciences that needs protecting given current squeezes on finances. We saw how mobile learning is enabling a blur…
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Making QR Code Treasure Hunts
Been thinking about how you could set up a QR code-based tresure hunt activity – scanning a QR code in a location brings up a Google Maps link showing where the next clue is, and so on. It might be a way of structuring field trip activities – at e…
I’d stumbled upon ARIS about a year ago but never had a chance to try it out until recently. Given that I’m now doing workshops on geolocation stuff and I’m presenting at an Enhancing Fieldwork showcase, it seemed the right moment to try. ARIS is …