Last week, a group of volunteers along with AppLab designers launched 'Tastes of Home' – a cookbook featuring family recipes and stories of AUT staff and students from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Proceeds from the sales will go towards a new scholarship fund for young people from refugee backgrounds to support their study at AUT.…
Centre for Learning and Teaching, AppLab and the School of Science have developed a smart device app that allows the user to identify the most common native trees of New Zealand. The app comes with a user friendly ‘multiple choice’-type wizard, an A-Z species list and the option to capture, save and share your own…
An augmented reality colouring-in mobile application will take the Big Hoot art trail from the streets of Auckland to kids nationwide. The Big Hoot event, presented by Haier, brings storytelling to the streets of Auckland through 47 Owl sculptures which will help raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation when they are auctioned. The Haier…
The ‘He Whare Ako App’ is an interactive educational tool presenting a culturally responsive mobile learning framework. He Whare Ako, He Whare Hangarau (a house of learning, a house of technologies) framework underpins concepts of Ako (teaching + learning) and Kaupapa Māori (Māori philosophical values), interwoven with mobile learning theories and approaches. The framework is…
AUT celebrated the official launch of the APP LAB – a cross disciplinary group of staff and students exploring new ways of learning through technology and new media. This creative and digitally capable cluster – including academics, researchers, designers and developers – apply instructional design, user meaning-making and emerging learning technologies to experimental app design…
