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The students who chose to develop their Space Invaders project in Swift Playgrounds were also able to experiment with developing their own Sprites using Keynote.
This example shows how students can very easily show satellite imagery of Indonesia and then plot points of interest such as the epicentre for recent earthquakes in Lombok.
Recently one of our Year 9 students chose to create an animated sculpture entirely in Virtual Reality using the Tilt Brush software. This has given new insights to what is possible with Virtual Reality and how staff and students will utilise this exciting technology.
Color Switch is a popular game with over 125 million downloads worldwide. The game is simple and creates attractive visuals using only simple shapes such as circles, lines and squares that are brightly coloured. We can easily create this game using a "Blank" template from the Starting Points in Swift Playgrounds.
This week our Year 7 Robotics (13 year old) students explored Functions using the mBot and Apple's Swift programming language.
This week I have been working with follow ADE and Author, Paul Hamilton to develop a workflow which will allow students in his Grade 6 class to understand and create their own animation using Keynote's new drawing features and Swift Playgrounds.
Over the past month I have been working with the talented developers at MakeBlock in China to tweak their new template for Coding with mBot. Read more about the improvements to this Swift Playground course.
At Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018 it was announced there is now support for third-party subscriptions within Swift Playgrounds. As someone who uses Playgrounds for coursework to match the Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum it is a welcome relief that we can now push updated Playground Books to students.
In the last couple weeks I have tested out the new Makeblock's Codey Rocky in my classroom. I have utilised the mBot extensively and created coursework for Swift Playgrounds so I was excited to see there was a new robot released with similar functionality.
I recently had the privilege of being interviewed for the pilot episode of The Staffroom. The Staffroom produced by Apple Distinguished Educator, Jamie Clark is targeted as an education podcast which take a look into the world of pedagogy.
Below is a collection of resources which I have authored, co-authored and collaborated on. All of the resources a freely available for educators to use in their own classrooms or remix as they see fit. Click on the cover art to view the resource.
** These resource will only open via the iTunes U app on your iPad.
