Augmented Letters to Santa

We wrote and typed letters to Santa for our local newspaper.  The students were very excited about the chance to be published in the real newspaper!  We wrote the letters first in class, and then we took them to the computer lab to type for the paper.

I always love reading their Santa letters.  They have the best reasons for how they have earned the new toys.

We then took a picture of our handwritten letters and uploaded them to our Kidblogs.  I wanted to use the Aurasma app to augment our letters to Santa.  I had my service learning student from the high school video each child reading his or her letter.  I was hoping to use each student's letter as the trigger image for his/her video.  I had thought that the handwriting and borders being different would be enough to keep each student video with the correct letter.  It wasn't!  So I took a photo of each student and attached the pictures to the letters.  Then I linked each video to the student's photo.  Now when we scan the photos in the Aurasma app it pulls up the video of each child reading his or her letter to Santa.