QR Code and Update on Project!

Hello!

Here is the QR Code to get to my game:

 

Description of project:
Hello! Welcome to the Transportation Tour of Essex, MA! This tour, you guessed it, will be taking you through the town of Essex to learn about the many modes of transportation that people have used over the years!

As for how my game is going, I've been hitting a few hiccups here and there, things not fully saving so having to go back and re-put them in. Not sure why that was happening, but it seems to be saving just fine now (knocks on wood just in case).

As of right now I still need to:

-Input Trolley and Train conversations

-Make an icon for the Train

-Add sounds

-Make a handout

trolley, rail transport, Essex area

Tri-State Trolley Map
zoom in to see Essex area

via
The trolley comes to Ipswich, June 26, 1896
thanks to help (with search terms) of librarian at Beverly Public Library
(maybe can be helpful to Alexandra in her info gathering)

so there were two lines serving/passing through Exxex:
trolley line passing through Essex on way to Gloucester and other points on Cape Ann

how did people get around before rail? were they more likely to stay put?

also
the Essex branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad
(used this map in my first post to this blog)

will watch for more on transportation; again, reference librarian at Beverly Public Library was helpful. there may be materials in their "Beverly" (local history) room that is useful. It is not limited to Beverly, and is pretty good on the entire North Shore in particular.

addition(s)

The early and later means of communication and transportation in and through Essex County, chapter 6 (pp 30-40) of
Standard History of Essex County, Massachusetts : Embracing a History of the County from Its First Settlement to the Present Time, with a History and Description of Its Towns and Cities. The Most Historic County of America (Boston, 1878)

Essex Transportation!

List of things I'd be interesting in looking into!

-How the people of Essex traveled
-Where they traveled
-Who would travel by what means (for example, who would be riding the trolley, who would be riding a boat, etc.)

Essex Project Ideas

Originally what I had written in the survey was:

-I'm not exactly sure, I just know that the experience I want to create should be able to be used in addition to the tours available at the museum. For example, I wouldn't just want to create an app that replaces the job of the tour guide giving out all the information, but something that can be used with the tour guide. Perhaps something showing videos of the processes and such, because I know when we were touring I had really wished we could have seen how some of the things actually worked (and the tour guide said they usually just do it for younger tour groups and such)

I'm still at a similar standpoint, where I'm not really quite sure what I want to do. I think it'd be interesting to learn more about the processes of shipbuilding, as well as things that are unique to the Essex Ship Building Museum. I'd like to make it a fun experience for those visiting the museum. 

I am also open to other ideas as well, and just learning as much as I can. Perhaps it'll inspire me to better brainstorm ideas. 

As for programs I'd be interested in using, I honestly would be open to trying any of them out. I will say that I have tried the ARAF browser before (with the coursera lessons) and found that I had hit quite a few snags with it not saving my progress. But yeah! I'm really open to experimenting in any of them!

Stick With It!

Our game is called: Stick With It

A game of finding lost things! Hope you enjoy!

ARIS Project

Project: Lost Things!

Location: On Campus

Our project will be a series of quests to search for lost items (such as art supplies for a class, or keys to your studio). We want to incorporate stickers in with this idea to have a real life element, so for example; you follow the story and end up where you're supposed to go to retrieve the lost item, you not only would get the item in the app, but there would also be a sticker of said item in the location as well that you can find and collect! 

For this project we will also be creating some of our own characters, as well as possibly using people from the school. 

Testing with 3D objects

Hello!

I did a few tests with 3D objects and Aurasma just to see what would happen!

It is a bit finicky.

The first one I tried was with my laptop, I put a gif on it using Aurasma. Aurasma alerted me that it may not work so well due to the trigger image not being very unique, but I haven't had really any difficulty getting it to work. I figured it would work well because it's flat.

I would like to get a video of it at some point to show that it works even if the laptop is moved or closed, etc. But currently just have a photo of it in the app!

He dances!

For the second, I tried a water bottle, something I figured wouldn't really work. It works, but it's finicky. You can't turn it, and you have to have it at the same view as I took the photo for the trigger image. Being a sort of at level view. If you try a bird's eye view of it or worm's eye view, or turn it much, it won't work. Still an interesting test though!

Also, kind of like the laptop, I tried using an image on a cover of a book as my trigger image, but this time I overlayed a video with sound on top of it. It worked out just as well. And can be viewed below or with the actual book. 

Alex's Aurasma Project 1

My Aurasma account is: Alexandra.Bonin

Here's the photo to use with my Aura! Feel free to test it out!