Virtual Reality Teacher Lesson Ideas

ClassVR Content Update - 13th March 2020Houston – we have new content! This week, we are thrilled to announce that we are now hosting a series of new videos on the ClassVR Portal from the amazing women and men at NASA. As part of their ongoing commitment to inspiring young minds, the team at NASA [...]

ClassVR Content Update - 28th February 2020 This week’s ClassVR content update is the first of an ongoing series of new resource releases onto the ClassVR portal and we’re starting off down under, with the new ‘Australia’ category. This category will appear alongside the other subjects in the ‘ClassVR’ section of your content libraries and [...]

ClassVR Update - January 2020Explorable Scenes Here at ClassVR HQ we are always looking for the best way to improve our content library to best suit the needs of our users and their students. Last year we introduced videos, the year before we started our library of 3D Augmented Reality models. In 2020 we are [...]

Thinglink and ClassVR Here at ClassVR, we are always looking at exciting, innovative new ways for our users to interact with VR technology – from creating and importing 3D augmented reality models to building and coding interactive worlds with CoSpaces. Now, we are excited to announce a new chapter in the ClassVR story – Thinglink.  [...]

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 [...]