Greetings comrades I have been using Unity in my ITS class with a view to making it our 3D default package and taking advantage of its options for developiing products for iPod and iPad devices. I have not as yet gone as far developing for these devices yet but their web site seems to imply that it is no big deal??? Fingers crossed. So far the use of Unity itself is proving to be popular with the students and while it is early days yet, the quality of student work seems to be quite good. The advantage I see for using this for the iDevices is that the 3D work (we have traditionally used 3D Max) can't be too complex for the screen and that seems to have the effect of leading the students away from the idea of making a game of the complexity of Halo or similar. They seem to have automatically down scaled with this. This means that we are a better chance of getting finished working products(Games)as opposed to games elements or characters, that have potential for games rather than actual completed working games. The student should produce better DDE documentation on completed products. It doesn't seem to matter how much I try to lead them to minimal projects, once they start in 3D they seem to think they can produce high end industry efforts - which of course they can't in the time we have for projects. The limiting nature of the iDevices seems to be obvious to them and they adjust their projects accordingly. The other thing about Unity is the price - free. To go to pods and pads will cost but nothing like other software. Any hints suggestions and guidance gratefully appreciated.
Mike Hawney HOD ICT and Business Bentley Park College, Cairns [email protected] PH (07)40408205 This message (including attachments) is intended for the addressee named above. It may also be confidential, privileged and/or subject to copyright. If you wish to forward this message to others, you must first obtain the permission of the author.If you are not the addressee named above, you must not disseminate, copy, communicate or otherwise use or take any action in reliance on this message. You understand that any privilege or confidentiality attached to this message is not waived, lost or destroyed because you have received this message in error. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender and delete from any computer.Unless explicitly attributed, the opinions expressed in this message do not necessarily represent the official position or opinions of the State of Queensland or the Department of Education and the Arts.Whilst all care has been taken, the Department of Education and the Arts disclaims all liability for loss or damage to person or property arising from this message being infected by computer virus or other contamination. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Klupp Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2010 11:51 AM To: QSITE ICT Teachers Subject: [qsiteict] IPAD programming - ITS/IPT Good afternoon all, I was wondering if anyone has tried programming (ie building an App) an IPAD within the class setting - ie ITS or IPT. I was thinking of extending our schools gaming context for IPT to include mobile devices, and as a very impressed owner of an IPAD I can't hep think how positive the experience would be for my students. If anyone has used the iOS SDK recently, and has some advise to share on how hard it would be to get started on this, I would love to hear about it. We currently work on Visual Basic and Gamemaker. Is there an Apple person in Australia /Brisbane who looks after schools and IPADS? I'd love to get in contact with them. Jonathan Klupp Coordinator - IT Innovation and Liason Faith Lutheran College, Redlands Ph:07 38205500, Fax: 07 38205511 Mobile: 0422 462 904 1-15 Beveridge Road, Thornlands Qld 4164 and/or 132 Link Road, Victoria Point Qld 4165 PO Box 5400, Victoria Point Qld 4165 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Drew Semple [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 2 August 2010 10:50 AM To: QSITE ICT Teachers Subject: RE: [qsiteict] ITS - Flash animations and uploading to mobile phone Hi All, I would suggest that we use the EdNA forum for this sort of discussion as the posts and uploads are more readily accessible asynchronously. We just need to encourage all ITS teachersto sign up to edNA Groups. Drew Semple | Head of Information Technology Brisbane Boys' College | Kensington Terrace | Toowong | Queensland 4066 | Australia P +61 7 3309 3655 | E [email protected]| W www.bbc.qld.edu.au | M 0402466631 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2010 11:09 AM To: QSITE ICT Teachers Subject: Re: [qsiteict] ITS - Flash animations and uploading to mobile phone Drew, Margaret, Helen, Bill and ITS teachers an excellent thread, providing some great stimulus for planning in ITS. Can I suggest that this thread be extended to explore all the great ideas that might be happening around Qld in ITS, as we move towards a post VET era. As we eventually will have the need to rewrite WPs, the time is ripe for exploring where we can take ITS without the constraints of the VET components. It has to be a truly exciting time and opportunity to pursue relevant technologies that will engage our students. I'm not sure if this is the best venue, or the ITS Edna site? Ideas? Paul Rayner From: Drew Semple <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 2:44 PM To: QSITE ICT Teachers <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [qsiteict] ITS - Flash animations and uploading to mobile phone I have done Flash Animations for Mobiles with my Year 9 class this year. Ile they have used ActionScript, it has been at a fairly low level and the amount of design and evaluation was nothing like what I would expect from an ITS class. However, the basis of your concern is probably about the issues to do with mobile phones. We used Adobe CS4 and installed Device Central in addition to Flash. The computers also need fairly free access to the internet for Device Central to download the device library from the Adobe site. All of this took lots of negotiation with our tech guys. I bought a couple of base-level Nokia phones because they have Flash Lite Ver 2.0 and will work without a SIM card. Maybe other brands can do this as well. Start the process in Device Central specifying the brand and model of phone being targeted, and select "New Flash File". Device Central and Flash do the rest for you, creating the correct size stage. When you preview the animation, it opens Device Central and the animation appears in a "skin" of the phone. The skin includes the phone keyboard and buttons- all active just like the real thing. It is really cool. You can then just download the "SWF" file to the real phone using a USB cable or Bluetooth. The kids loved it. Developing for Flash Lite presents a couple of constraints compared to developing an animation to run on a computer, but it is still a really cool assignment. Go for it. As an aside, I used the same phones for my Year 11 ITS class to develop a movie in a video unit. It breaks away from developing for just a computer. I also have a Wii that they are going to develop products for as well. Drew Semple | Head of Information Technology Brisbane Boys' College | Kensington Terrace | Toowong | Queensland 4066 | Australia P +61 7 3309 3655 | E [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | W www.bbc.qld.edu.au <http://www.bbc.qld.edu.au/> | M 0402466631 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Webb Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 1:47 PM To: QSITE ICT Teachers Subject: [qsiteict] ITS - Flash animations and uploading to mobile phone Hi all We are offering ITS again in 2011 after a break of a couple of years. At meetings in the past I have heard of people planning to have their students write flash animations and then upload them to their mobile phones. Has anyone tried to do this as part of their course? Has it been successful/not too difficult? The reason I am asking is that I am thinking of advertising it to our current year 10 students as one of the 'features' of the course. As I only know the concept, not the technicalities (they can come later), if it is not feasible, I will not promote it. Don't want to be accused of false advertising. Thanks Bill --- You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.edna.edu.au/u?id=705780.8c42c99d23225f56bfc2493893fb458e&n=T&l= qsiteict&o=1723654 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-1723654-705780.8c42c99d23225f56bfc2493893fb4...@edna.edu.au No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3032 - Release Date: 07/28/10 04:34:00 --- You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]. 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