During our session we discussed the development of augmented reality and what teaching opportunities it provides teachers and the types of learning activities available for students. To illustrate these points we looked at four augmented reality apps. colAR Mix This app allows the user to download pre-designed pages (like pages from a coloring book) that can be colored. How the page is colored is how the 3D image will appear when viewed through the app. This is a great app for after-school activities or for young learners. AR Flashcards This app provides users with colorful alphabet letters to be printed out. When the letters are viewed through the app a 3D animal appears atop the letter. If the animal is touched the user will hear a child say a short phrase, such as, "G is for gorilla." This app is fantastic for young learners or ELL students. It is a very simplistic app, but fun and useful. Layar Layar comes from a European group that wants to make the "print world clickable". Through a free subscription to Layar.com users can create interactive images where clickable buttons appear atop an image. These clickable buttons can take viewers to a preset webpage, a gallery of pictures, or to a YouTube video. If properly executed this is a fantastic app; however, it takes some time to create a worthwhile product and is not very simple. Aurasma Aurasma allows users to create "auras", digital layers that appear atop an image viewed through the app. These auras can be additional images, videos, or 3D creations. It is a very simple app to use and highly adaptable. In just a matter of seconds teachers can create an aura that students can view to see additional information or students can create videos that describe viewed image. Being that this app is so versatile, we spent the majority of our time looking at how we can use it in our class, regardless of the grade level or subject we teach. It is a fantastic tool for the iPad classroom!

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Augmented Reality
in the
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Image Source:
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2. Ryan Novak
Academic Technology Specialist
Heathwood Hall Episcopal School
Columbia, SC
novakr@heathwood.org
theInteractiveClassroom.blogspot.com

3. Provide clearish definition
Show a few examples
Provide hands-on opportunities
Leave you with confidence
Session Goals

4. What is augmented reality?
How do I view it?
How do I use it in my
classroom?
How do I create my own?
Session Agenda

5. What is AR?

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8. How do I view AR?

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Mountain
Valley
Hill
Glacier
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10. Internet connected device
AR app(s)
App-specific AR trigger(s)

12. Open the app
Press the
pyramid button
Locate
channel/user
Press Follow

13. Follow:
1. Heathwood Hall
2. Heathwood
3. Davyhulme

14. How do I use it in my
classroom?

15. “At Layar,
we want to make
the print world
clickable.”

16. AR at the Avenues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYTejLqrbbk

17. Admin Uses for AR
• Create virtual tours for prospective families
• Post photos of faculty at their classroom
doors.Turn these photos into triggers that
can launch a video of what students do in
that class or information about the teacher.
Great for prospective families. Create a
scavenger hunt or bingo sheet using these
triggers as a community building exercise.

18. Teacher Uses for AR
• Post your photo outside your class. Create
a trigger that takes students to your class
website or club information, like QR code.
• Provide additional information or examples
to student text. Use triggers to direct
students to information not in the text.
• Use the microphone to transcribe
comments about a student’s project.Take a
screenshot of these comments and create
an aura that is triggered by that project.

19. Teacher Uses for AR
• Create a virtual field trip around campus
• Facilitate a “get to know me” activity where
teachers or students create videos about
themselves that are attached to their
photos.
• In a genealogy or history project have
photos of relatives launch a video or text
of an interview with that person. Creates a
physical and digital project. (Roots project)

20. Teacher Uses for AR
• Provide guiding questions for students to
consider as they’re beginning an assignment,
unit, or discussion.

21. Student Uses for AR
• Create posters depicting simplistic topics,
such as mathematical symbols, atomic
elements, punctuation marks, etc., and use
them to trigger videos describing their use
or purpose. Can be scaled to ability level.
• Create a video describing the
creative/mental process followed for a
project
• Have a fictional character retell the story
from their point of view (mixed up tales)

22. Student Uses for AR
• Locate a current event news article that
relates directly to topic within class text.
Create a trigger to that article. For an
extension, create a brief video describing
this correlation and/or its significance.
• Keep a running log of their ideas and
thinking using pictures of the object (not
necessarily a static image) as a trigger.

23. What are other
suggestions and ideas
you have?

24. What are some tools or apps you
could use in conjunction with this
to make it great?
Anything saving to the camera
roll!

25. How do I create my
own?

26. www.AURASMA.com

27. Helpful Tutorials
http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/p/aurasma-
tutorials.html
http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/p/aurasma-
tutorials.html
http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/p/aurasma-
tutorials.html

28. Questions?