In our GED 550 class, we learned a new tool call Story Sphere. This was a resource that allowed anyone to create their own 360°experience. We had a chance to play around with this program through a lab with our instructor and got familiar with the different features that it offered. As an assignment, we had to create our own 360° experience using this program. I decided to create one of my classroom during Open House. Before the parents and students came into explore, I took a 360° photo of my classroom using Google maps and imported the picture to Story Sphere. After I recorded several audio clips from Audacity, the assembling was extremely easy to do.
If you would like to check out my Story Sphere, click here.
In addition, my group decided to explore other options that also allow users to create their own 360° experience. We came across a program call YouVisit. We really enjoyed this resource because they have numerous pre-made experiences for us to use without the hassle of creating our own. Especially since two out of the three of us were educators, we found it most useful in our profession! It was a little difficult to find videos related to math (since I’m a middle school math teacher), but I was able to find a lot of experience for colleges. This was perfect for my school site because our district pushed a lot of college and career program. Since our school did not have enough money to send our students to different campuses, this was a perfect solution to still give our students a tour of college campuses.
Finally, we were introduced to a device call Google Cardboard which was very affordable to purchase. One of our classmates went on Amazon and bought it for about $15. Since both of these programs were easily used on any mobile device, the Google Cardboard was also compatible, which made the experience that much more real!
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