Monthly Archives: July 2017

amidoinitrite, ds106, Edtech, education, learning and teaching, learning design

Jim talks about preparing students for a connected future, and everything else

Leave a comment

Five years later, I was finally able to attend one of Jim’s talks in-person when he spoke about ‘preparing students for a connected future’ at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.

The DS106 assignment bank was inspired in part by ravelry, and the patterns it shared.

amidoinitrite, repossessed to skate, skateboarding

Skating with Jim

Leave a comment

I put together a second deck Jim, fitted out with my original Bullett 66s so we could go skate first thing this morning. Fierce.

amidoinitrite, Concept, game based learning, homework, learning and teaching, learning design, resource development

WWW – Simple access to web pages

Leave a comment

I’m building an interactive experience which makes use of available weather data, much like the data services made available by the BOM or the OpenWeatherMap. This means I need to be able to load data from the web, parse it and then transform 3D geometry based on real world locations and the loaded weather data.

That’s a whole load of stuff to figure out and then pull together, so I’m making a start by learning how to load data by retrieving the contents of URLs and weather specific data, just to get the whole thing going.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
//using System.Xml;
//using System;

public class SimpleWebAccess : MonoBehaviour {

	IEnumerator Start()

	{
	
		WWW www = new WWW ("ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDV10751.xml");
		yield return www;
		print (www.text);

		}
}

Related links