Synthesis

When looking back on my inspirational Phase its easy for me to see what Ive learned and what Ive stuck with as apposed to the ideas I have left behind. In the beginning I was trying to understand how to teach. Not so much as teach a classroom for myself, but how teaching techniques work when it comes to slideshows and movies. I tried to learn as much as I could from that to try and come up with a new way for kids to learn. I didn't want to be repeating something from the past.

I found some useful and some not so much as they were out dated. I start becoming more and more focused on the technology side of the project and which technologies are being used within the classroom. I kept track on notes and applications that classrooms were using incase I could implement my idea into one of them. I found an app that could fit with my overall project really well called Layar. It is very popular and helps developers work on an augmented reality to their liking. I was excited about it, but after speaking with my supervisors, it could be too much work overall, not to mention it would mean working on two different platforms which I haven't been thought in yet.

My direction has changed towards my Final Year Project. I was too focused on different technologies and how many I could use for my project then thinking of my angle. After looking into my topic a bit more of 1916 I found that there may be an account of some school boys during that time and what they heard and saw. If this is true, or even not, I will be doing the 1916 Rising from the viewpoint of a school boy to help better students in understanding what it must have been like back then.

For my prototype I hope to have at least some kind of touchscreen interface working. even if it is one sample. I am still waiting to purchase the application that will help me do this, but once I get the money for it Im hoping to get started on the technical side straight away. In saying this I am also trying to get in contact with a teacher in The Kings Hospital Private School who a friend of mine knows to try and gain access to the archives which holds the accounts of the boys I am basing my project on during the Easter Rising. I need to start gathering the information I wish to include in my project as the technical stuff I can learn at home. The history however will be more of a challenge but I feel with my angle will also be a lot more interesting than I first thought it would be