#googlecardboard

I feel like Google Cardboard has been in the air this week. It keeps popping up on Twitter and in my Feedly reader in many blogs I follow. It was even on NPR on my way home from work one night this week!

It started with the new of Google Expeditions, the new program to bring virtual field trips to classrooms all around the country. I admit I get a little jealous when I see the posts of students and teachers alike mesmerized by the 360 degree view they have of a previously inaccessible-to-them part of the world. You can find out more about the Expeditions Pioneer Program here: https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions. 

Then I heard an interesting piece on All Things Considered on NPR about how the New York Times is using their capacity for old-school media distribution to send Google Cardboard viewers to their print subscribers so they can view the new VR content they are creating. They have one story already released, with more to come. You can listen to the whole story or read the transcript here: http://n.pr/1PGVAcA. 

Tech Times gave me yet another reason to want to move to New Zealand (other than the obvious reason that then I'd live in Middle Earth) - boxes of Kellogg's Nutri-Grain cereal come with DIY cardboard viewers! http://bit.ly/1PGXOZu. All you need are scissors, a butter knife, and tape (and an empty box of cereal) and you can build your own. Talk about buying cereal for the prize inside!

And then there was a great post on the EdTechTeam Google+ community page from Molly Schroeder on how students can use Google Street View to create something called photospheres that can then be viewed using Cardboard - so cool!

She also shared the fantastic resource embedded below, with LOTS of ways to get started with Cardboard in the classroom. Check out her presentation page here: http://bit.ly/1PGXx90. 


I can't wait to see where #googlecardboard pops up next!