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What does your future look like?  Where will you be in 10 years? What will you be doing? How will you get there? What challenges will you face?  What are your hopes and dreams?  What are your fears?

What matters to you? Your culture?  Your family? A favourite sports team? Surfing on Sunday? A certain song? Your pet dog? Everyone has something that matters to them.  Very often we try and explain why these things are so important to us but it is hard to cover all the reasons.  We could plan and write an explanation text to make sure we get our point across, or we could create a video game and let people learn through play. Learn RPG Playground is a Role-Playing Game(RPG) creator.  It lets you make games like the birds-eye view video games from the 1980s and 1990s like Zelda and Gauntlet. RPG Playground is really easy to learn and you can create a basic working game in minutes.  You will need to create an account first and remember to save your work regularly.  But you can share your work with anybody and they will be free to explore your world, meet the characters you have added and learn from the conversations they have.   Once you are ...

What matters to you? Your culture?  Your family? A favourite sports team? Surfing on Sunday? A certain song? Your pet dog? Everyone has something that matters to them.  Using Aurasma you can take an image of your significant something and bring it to life with a video or animation. From PokemonGo to Snapchat, Augmented Reality is commonplace for entertainment but it is actually remarkably easy to Augment Reality in the classroom.  There are a few apps you can use to do this but a good one to start off with is Aurasma. Learn: Aurasma is an app that lets you quickly and easily augment images so that they come to life when you hover your phone or tablet over it.  You will need to download the app onto your smartphone or tablet.  This tutorial below will teach you how to create an 'Aura' quickly and easily, just using your mobile device. There is also 'Aurasma Studio' a website that gives you more control over the trigger images and their actions.  I...