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"Developers Touchpress are quickly becoming one of the top creators of iPad apps. The Orchestra is just another fine example of how apps should be designed and built. Although the app centres around classical music, you don't necessarily have to enjoy classical music in order to appreciate it. The focus of the app is to help users understand and observe an orchestra while they are playing - with note-by-note visualisations of each piece as it's played. There are multiple camera angles and views so that you can switch between them at any point during the music."

The unique qualities of a 3D virtual worlds can provide opportunities for rich sensory immersive experiences, authentic contexts and activities for experiential learning, simulation and role-play, modelling of complex scenarios, a platform for data visualisation and opportunities for collaboration and co-creation that can not be easily experienced using other platforms. Second Life is completely user-generated 3D environment that comes with relatively easy-to-use building and scripting tools that anyone can learn. This makes it an ideal platform for engaging students in creating their own learning activities, experiences and environments, and not just be passive consumers of learning.

A visualiser iPad app

Beautiful data visualisation art/mathematics project for students and link to fab TED talk "How we can find ourselves in data." Where art and data intersect.