Aurasma iRead Bulletin Board

Have you tried Aurasma? I LOVE this app!  I've been reading about the Aurasma app for a while.  There are several great posts on the web with tutorials on how to setup an account and create an aura.  I found the Two Guys and Some iPads and Kleinspiration websites to be very helpful with step by step guides, video clips, and ideas to use this app in your classroom.  

One of my favorite ways I used this app in my classroom was with my reading bulletin board.  I took pictures of my students with their favorite books.  Then I recorded a short video of each student explaining what he or she loved about his or her book.  I used the Aurasma app to link each video clip with the photos.  The class enjoyed seeing our bulletin board come to life as we all talked about our favorite books.

I posted this sign with any of our class bulletin boards that could be brought to life with the Aurasma app. 

I created this direction page to explain how others in the school or parents could download the app and follow our channel to see our Auras.

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.