Virtual Reality Teacher Lesson Ideas

Virtual FootprintsIssue 2: Facilitating Imagination Simon Luxford-Moore of Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools (ESMS) in Edinburgh – a unique family of schools with a ‘diamond’ approach to education catering to 2800 students – takes the spotlight in Issue 2 of Virtual Footprints. Simon has taught for over seventeen years and has enjoyed a variety of roles [...]

ClassVR for Universities Is ClassVR suitable for university students? This is a question we hear a lot within the Avantis offices, so our latest blog will be investigating exactly how and why ClassVR works so well within a university setting. As a teacher, one of the most interesting things I have discovered since working here [...]

Virtual FootprintsIssue 1: Creativity When Creating Content Mark Savery of Emmanuel College - a K-12 co-educational, multidenominational school of 1600 students in Queensland - takes the spotlight in Issue 1 of Virtual Footprints.  Mark has enjoyed a variety of roles throughout his Career at Emmanuel College, acting as Director of Learning and Teaching (Curriculum), Dean [...]

Minecraft 3D Models Minecraft has come a long way in the last few years. Since its release in 2011 the creative ‘sandbox’ game has gone from underground, indie building simulator to worldwide creative phenomenon. While teachers will no doubt be familiar with some of the terminology by now (Creepers? The Nether? Ender Dragon?) what you [...]

The ClassVR Community Portal One of the most exciting things about the ClassVR Portal is the sheer quantity of content that is available to its users. Through the ClassVR Subscriptions section of the Libraries pane at portal.classvr.com you have access to not only the wealth of content uploaded by our team of Educational Specialists (including [...]

Editing Your Own 360 Content using Windows 10 As more and more of our users are exploring the potential of using their own content on their ClassVR headsets we are seeing an increasing number of requests for a simple editing tool to help tweak, trim and tinker with user generated content. Fortunately, if you are [...]

Creating Virtual Reality Content Using ClassVR As teachers, we know that creativity is at the heart of everything we do – whether it’s in creative writing, art, music or drama – or even maths and science. However, digital literacy is now becoming one of the most important features of the school curriculum, and being creative [...]

Virtual Reality and Remembrance Day 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the Great War. One of the bloodiest conflicts of human history, the First World War brought with it unprecedented levels of destruction and by the time the guns fell silent in 1918 it had claimed over 16 million lives. Teachers across the [...]

Hurricane Florence: Helping Students Understand Natural Disasters It can be difficult to talk to younger children about how the events they see in the news are affecting people in different parts of the world. Because their life experience is generally relatively limited, they can struggle to imagine what it is like for people they have [...]

International Literacy Day - 8th September 2018 Schools across the country will be coming back this week and many teachers will want to hook their children back into writing straight away. So, look no further – ClassVR is here to provide all the stimuli you will need. Our Playlist, Fantasy Settings, hosts 10 magical images [...]