Virtual Reality & Storytelling: the next generation

Hi there!
We would like you to help us with your votes to share our promotional video presented at V Premio GSD Innova. The video is an introduction of our project "Virtual Reality and Storytelling: the next generation". Different classrooms from the 3rd to the 6th grade in Primary Education at Ponte dos Brozos School and Code Club members are involved in this project.
After watching the video on the GSD Innova page, leave us a "like", please if you liked. You can also share it in your social networks to reach more people.

This is the direct link:
https://www.facebook.com/GSDInnova/posts/1720039188009028

Thank you very much.

Summer dreams in Virtual Reality

Hi guys!

Summer is here! Enjoy it, go to the beach, jump into the sea, look for treasure, hide in caves, look for shelves, go for a walk, travel, play with your friends or make new ones, practice English, spend time with your family, dance, go to the movies, read a book, talk about projects and worlds you have created at school or create a new one... but take advantage of this time to relax so you can come back to school in September with recharged energy!

Here you are a Virtual Greeting called "Summer Dreams" created with CoSpaces by Uxía Vázquez from class 6E.
https://cospac.es/7bFr

* You might also like this! 

 VR Storytelling in the EFL classroom using CoSpaces.

VR Storytelling with CoSpaces in the EFL classroom

 

Hi there!

Storytelling in Virtual Reality with CoSpaces can ve very interesting to increase students' imagination, creativity, and communicative language skills in learning a foreign language, but also can encourage cooperation between students.
VR storytelling integrates multiple learning contexts: listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary... into students' projects. And the most important thing! It was incredible fun in the class!

Here they are some of their wonderful projects.

Some VR stories from class 4D

Some Valentine's cards from class 6E 

Recreating a movie: "Stranger things scenes" from class 6E

Here you are a Padlet with all the projects you are sharing with me until this very moment. 

Thank you so much, guys! I'm so proud of you!
Go on creating and sharing!

Breaking gender stereotypes: Billy Elliot, VR with CoSpaces

THE PLOT

Billy Elliot is the story of a boy  from a coal mining family who loves dancing and his decision of learning ballet causes a great deal in his family.
The story is set in Northern England in the 80,s and it's about gender stereotypes, differences in social class, miner's strike in 1984 and the use of police violence against the miners.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EFFORT & PERSEVERANCE

Billy is destined to be a miner as his father and brother, but he is very different from them. He wants another life and thanks to his great talent, to his effort and perseverance he will be able to obtain a scholarship from the Royal Ballet School.

 

GENDER STEREOTYPES IN THE FILM

Gender definitions and divisions are shown in the gym where boys box and girls attend ballet lessons.
Billy's father and brother think boys must be interested in football, boxing or wrestling, but not Ballet, of course! But Billy wants to dance because it's his passion.
The different genders are clear: pink ballet slippers for girls and blue boxing shoes for Billy.

Here you are an example I have created using CoSpaces.
I hope you like it.
https://cospac.es/SNmz

 Now it's time for you to create and add other scenes to your project about the movie Billy Elliot.

* Music: Swan Lake composed by Tchaikovsky

Recreate scenes from your favourite movie and put in 3D with CoSpaces

Hi there!

Recreate some scenes from a film we are or were watching in class. First of all imagine how the setting might look like and then how to position the characters and objects.

 CHALLENGES:

• Create a new CoSpaces project.
• Chose an environment: shape, mood, atmosphere and size. Upload a stage image to create the ground.
• Drag and drop objects to the stage and adapt their properties to create the setting where the scene takes place. 
• Search the web and find images you need to rebuild the scene. 
• Add the characters of your story: main characters, secondary characters, protagonists, antagonists...
• Record your story. You can include text boxes or assign speech bubbles to the characters.
• Add the sound files to your scene .
• Upload the original soundtrack if you wish.
• Watch it in VR yourself and have fun!
• Don't forget to share it with the world through the sharing link.

This example I have created is about  Stranger things, the TV series we're watching in class. Can you guess the characters and some scenes in the show?
Now it's time for you to create! Maybe The Goonies, Billy Elliot, Bend it like Beckham, Stand by me, Inside Out, Up...

 If you can imagine it, you can create it.

Enjoy!
https://cospac.es/fHK1

Create a Virtual Card with Cospaces

Hi guys!

Have you already written your valentine's card? Don't worry because you can try something new this year and make a Virtual Reality Valentine's card for your loved ones. 

* STEPS TO FOLLOW: 

1. Create a new CoSpaces project.
2. Choose the background.
3. Create a setting.
4. Add personal images and a message.
5. Add music or record your own voice an upload it to your card.
6. Send and share your VR card.
7. Now it's time for you to enjoy and explore your Virtual Card with a smartphone and a carboard headset. Ask for one!

 

* DON'T FORGET!

• Pay attention to the details.
• There are different perspectives.
• There are different points of view.
• It's an experience from inside and from outside.
• Even it's an experience  from the point of view of one of the characters! 

https://cospac.es/cH5C

This is an example I have created for you to inspire. 

I hope you'll have fun designing your very own VR Valentine's experience!

Virtual Reality with CoSpaces

Hi kids!
Jump on the Virtual Reality with CoSpaces and create your own virtual worlds!
 https://cospac.es/YHov

 (Move the cursor around the screen to enter the virtual world)
(Try with Firefox if you can't see this project)

CoSpaces is a 3D tool to create virtual spaces on the computer and then dive in your creations on your tablet or smartphone. It's very intuitive to use but there is a YouTube channel  and a Blog to help us.

You can select different environments, objects, figures and change the colour, size and position of all the elements. When you finish a project you can share it with others or explore spaces other users have created.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• A laptop or computer.
• A Smartphone with the free CoSpaces app. 
• A Virtual Reality headset.

 

 See you in the classroom, guys. Your CoSpaces accounts are ready to use!

     
Songs in the project:
* "Perfect day" by Lou Reed
* "Love is a losing game" by Amy Winehouse.

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