Story Spheres

 

Screenshot of part of a 360 degree image from Story Spheres.

  • Story Spheres

  • https://storyspheres.com/

  • Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): For students who are experiencing instructor-shared content, I believe that the highest level would likely be “Understand.”  If you had students view various images and then (outside of Story Spheres) has them compare the images/locations/activities shown, then it could rise to “Analyse.”

  • Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): The experience would be somewhere between “Motion Pictures” and “Demonstrations,” depending on what was shared.

  • Integration of tool for teaching and learning:

  • Story Spheres allows you to upload your own 360 degree image of a place so that you can share it with others in the Story Spheres gallery or by embedding on a website or in your LMS.  It is a free service.  Story Sphere has several 360 images in its gallery that you can rotate your view in and experience.  You can add your own spheres, and also add audio to them (either as background audio (perhaps a short explanation of the scene captured in the 360 degree image) or a “hotspot audio”, where looking at a particular spot on the 360 degree image triggers the audio to play.  It’s an interesting way to share visual content in a way that lets students experience it from all angles.  Students may use  variety of mobile devices, laptops, or desktop computers to interact with the images.

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