Over the school holidays I intend to look into the use of Augmented Reality and the app Aurasma as an educational tool to enhance learning.
Here is a blogspot about Augmented Reality use.
Terms you should know:
Augmented reality: making something come to life
Aura: the magic thing that pops up when you hold your device over something. How to make an aura instructions.
Trigger image: the picture you want to make cooler that is just normal (probably something from your camera roll or in your photos)
Overlay: the thing you will apply on top of the trigger image (usually a video from your camera roll)
Aurasma: a free app to make augmented reality
To incorporate a YouTube clip into your Aura as an 'Overlay' you need to first save it to your camera roll and to do this (after much investigation) download the app VDownload which quickly and easily converts clips that can then be saved into your camera roll. From here it is very easy to then choose the desired video as your 'overlay'. If stuck, watch this YouTube clip that explains how to do it. There may well be another way of doing this, please let me know!
Some ideas for using Auras are:
- The front cover of books becoming the 'trigger' for a video of the movie trailer, book review, author interview etc.
- I'm working on making the picture on a t-shirt someone puts on, the trigger for a video about the digestive system (our Science topic this term)