Welcome, this webinar is on using
augmented reality in the classroom.
I'm Elizabeth Stewart and I contract with
STAR as an assistive technology specialist.
I'll start by telling you a little bit about myself.
I'm currently pursuing a PhD in special
education at the University of Alabama
while working as a graduate assistant.
I'm an adjunct professor in the
department of curriculum and instruction
at the University of Alabama Birmingham
as well as a contracted assistive
technology specialist for STAR.
I graduated from Auburn University in 2003
and started a 12-year career as a middle
school special education teacher. While
in the classroom I've developed an
interest in assistive technology and
have been working to develop my skills
and expertise in this area.
STAR is Alabama's state wide assistive technology resource.
We provide on-site AT training, AT demonstrations,
AT resources and referrals, conference
presentations, as well as a lending
library. Use the QR code below to learn
more and check out our website.
So, why are we here? Today we're going to talk a little bit about what augmented reality is,
a specific augmented reality app
called Aurasma, and then examples of how
people are using Aurasma in their
classrooms. So what is augmented reality?
Augmented Reality or AR is a live direct
or indirect view of physical real-world
environment whose elements are augmented
or supplemented by computer-generated
sensory input such as sound, video, or
graphics.
Let's watch a video that tells us more about what augmented reality is.
Unlike the full immersion of virtual
reality augmented reality aims to make the
world you already see so much cooler.
Augmented reality is when digital
information is overlaid onto the actual physical world.
Your camera detects a
target image and can figure out how
close or far and at what angle the
target image is from the camera using sensors.
It then projects digital
information onto that target image and
voila, augmented reality! In fact snapchat
has recently added augmented reality to
their features with the new lens filters.
Let's switch over to see exactly how this works.
Ok, so here we are in snapchat
and as you can see these snapchat uses
facial recognition to create a target
image of my face so now that it has
something to track it can project
digital information onto my face and
that's the basics of augmented reality.
Some of the earliest uses of augmented reality were
the heads-up displays on fighter jets
allowing pilots to see important
information projected in front of them
on their windshields. This technology
eventually made its way to automobiles
and even your eyeglasses with Google Glass.
There are many apps you can
download right now that utilize
augmented reality. Yelp for instance has
a feature called Monocle that lets you
see restaurant reviews and information
around you. The snap shop showroom app
uses augmented reality to show you how
furniture will look in your room before
you buy and a our zombie's lets you
shoot zombies around the office like
your Rick from The Walking Dead.
One of the most impressive uses of AR for
gaming came with the announcement of the
Microsoft Hololens. The Hololens uses
advanced sensors and hardware to scan
your room and creates images based on
your physical space you can interact
with these images and see them from
different angles using the hololens
headset so when real reality is not
enough and virtual reality is too much
augmented reality should be just right.
As you saw in the video Snapchat is a
popular form of augmented reality that's
being used all over the world.
Pokemon Go is another app you may have
heard of. Let's see how Vespa is even
using AR as a marketing tool.
Pretty cool, huh? So now you've seen lots
of ways that companies are using
augmented reality for games or for
marketing so how can we utilize
augmented reality ourselves and in our
classrooms.
Aurasma is a free augmented reality app
that I'm gonna be focusing
on for the rest of this presentation.
Just so you know, I'm not affiliated with
Aurasma or an expert at Aurasma I just
have enjoyed using it with my students.
So who can download Aurasma? Aurasma is a
free app and it can be downloaded from
the App Store or Google Play onto iPhones
and iPads and Android phones and tablets.
Before we begin go ahead and download
the Aurasma app. Once you downloaded the
app you're gonna create a username and
password and then you're gonna make sure
that you're logged in you may want to
pause this while you do that so you can participate
Once you're logged in you
will see a screen similar to the one
pictured here there's gonna be a little
purple button at the bottom if you're
not if you do not see the dots then
click the purple button and it will take
you to this screen so you want to see
the little white dots and they're going
to be moving on your screen okay
once you're there then you'll be able to
activate an aura
and I have some examples for you to try.
So you're gonna hold your phone up to
the screen a distance away that you can
see the image, the twenty dollar bill, and
your dots will be moving and once they
activate you should see some really fun
things going on with the twenty dollar bill.
Now let's try another one.
If you hold your phone over this image
you should see your white dots moving,
once you activate the image you should
see a video of some hockey players.
Now let's practice with some Star Wars
poster when you hold your phone over the
image you should see your white circles
you're moving around on the screen once
it's activated you see a cool video of
some neat things going on with the star
wars ships and logo okay now that we've
seen some already created auras how do we
create an aura of our own.
Let's watch a with a step-by-step guide.
After you open the app you'll see a
camera screen tap the Aurasma logo at
the bottom of the screen to go to the
menu. Tap the icon of the person in the
bottom right corner, then select the
second option in the top menu bar called
"My Auras" tap the plus icon on the right
to create a new aura and select aura
from the pop-up menu tap device in the
bottom right corner and then press the
plus again then select either camera or
photo app depending on where you'd like
your overlay to be from. Then choose
whether you'd like a photo or a video.
This is your overlay which will show up
over the top of your real world image.
Give it a name and tap finish. If you're
asked to create an aura with your
overlay fantastic say yes if not simply
select your overlay from the menu and
tap select this will take you to a
camera screen to photograph your trigger
image this is the image they are overlay
will go on top of. Make sure that
slider at the bottom of the screen is in
the Green Zone
this means the image will be easy to
detect and the aura will work better
once you are happy with the trigger
image rotate and resize your overlay to
ensure that fits well on your trigger
and then tap the arrow to proceed once
again name your image make sure the
public is selected and it's added to
your channel, then tap finish. This will take you back
to the camera screen where you can test
that your aura works hold the camera to
your trigger image and there you go.
You've just augmented reality using
Aurasma. Well done!
Okay to recap you're
gonna pick your content from the Aurasma
library or your device you're going to
take a clear picture of your trigger
remember, don't press the button until
the bar goes green, and then also get
your content into position and scale it.
When you're ready, tap the arrow you can
find more step-by-step directions on the
Aurasma website if you follow the QR code
link you can access the Aurasma.com site and they have lots of
step-by-step directions as well as video
tutorials that would help as you learn.
We're now going to watch a couple of
videos from other teachers that are
using Aurasma in their classrooms or
their schools, I encourage you to look
online and research other ideas there's lots of
really innovative things going on using
this app and other augmented reality apps.
But let's start by watching these
two videos.
Okay so let me show you Aurasma.
Now I've downloaded it off of iTunes
you can download this off of Google Play too
and you're gonna notice it's gonna pop
up here in a minute
hit this little "A" and at the bottom
you'll see a plus sign. So you hit the
plus sign to get started and you're
going to notice it has a library of
different items so we have animations we
have images and we have 3D images. So I'm gonna do vocabulary words today and you
can take Aurasma and pretty much turn all
kinds of things in your classroom alive.
So I'm gonna do vocabulary words so I'm
going to take playing so I just take
some regular paper wrote playing down
and I'm gonna pick my image
here's Cherpi and he's playing with a
ball and that's the image I'm gonna use
so as he pops up he's like they're
trying to find it there it is so turkey
I'm gonna pick him and now that I have
my image it's like okay what card do you
want to make come alive what object so
you're gonna notice something here I've
got my card and I'm gonna take a picture
of playing but there's a measurement or
not measurement but a guide that says
red yellow green. Red's not so good
yellow is good and green is really good
which is tracking you want it to track
really well you can see it's red they're
yellow so that's not good so I took the
time to put a border and I added points
and you're gonna notice augmented
reality for tracking loves points and
you can do this on a computer or just I
did it by hand but you notice how my
tracking went up to green so that's
exactly what you want and when you get
it just go ahead and hit the little
picture of the camera and that's taking
a picture
there's Chirpy now I can
I can make it bigger, see? Bigger.
That's what I want I'm gonna hit that,
finish.
I created an aura and I've got to enter a
name now so okay so playing is the name
of my vocabulary card okay, finish. And
now I've got my say I've got these cards
on the table and the kid wants to see
what is playing they'll just take this
and there's Chirpy. You can watch him
playing so it makes the card come alive
it's really cool you can do this about
almost anything in your classroom.
So that's augmented reality with Aurasma.
And here's another one.
so here are some practical ways that you
can use Aurasma and the the beauty of
this app is that it can meet you where
you are technology one is with your
technology struggling or tread
technology proficient Aurasma is  definitely
for you so what Jill and I did was we
established this bulletin board around
Bloom's taxonomy. So starting with the
lowest of Bloom's taxonomy knowledge
we've got triggered images and so you're
going to need these images to trigger
Aurasma to bring up websites videos so
and so forth so here's an example. We've
got the Charter image of some young
ladies in choir and we overlaid a an
actual video of them singing on top of
the picture and so what you get is,
*choir sings in AR video*
And you can double tap to bring the image to the front
imagine having 16 static images service
your AP economics review in May.
This is one of 16 that should be recognizable
each image brings an edge creations
overlay that explains what you should do
and when you single tap it, it gives you
more information and a question that you
should be able to recognize as a review.
Our math teachers want their static
image to have the problem worked out for
people who might not have access to
technology but the beauty of having a
math problem come to life and worked out
for students.
Great for parents and students and when you single tap it gives you more practice at the same time.
Pre-linguistic vocalization is academic terminology that mine
AP psychology students need to know so
when we go through pre-linguistic vocalization,
the word actually comes to life with what an example
of what pre-linguistic vocalization is. When you single tap it we have further instruction
for students to be able to evaluate what
type of pre-linguistic vocalization that was
an example of. School culture is
important at Northwest High School
students can take the Aurasma app can go
over the green door sign for the
Counseling Center single tap it and send
an email through a Google Doc to sign up
to see your counselor. A concern of all
educators is how do we advertise our
exemplar work from students how do we
put our students word in the hallway and
make it meaningful. Here we have a standards space bulletin
board advertising student work on the 27
amendments of Constitution.
One of the ways to make this come to life is to layer students talking about their own work
and what they've learned from a project
so in this case you can use Aurasma
to show students telling anybody in the
hallway what it is that they learned
about this particular project, further,
you can single tap the screen and it
will take the viewer in the hallway to a
Google Docs that then pulls the viewer
into this formerly two-dimensional
bulletin board and it makes it that much
more interactive.
Okay well I hope you
got the basics of how to use augmented
reality in your classrooms I'd love to
hear your ideas so email me at
elizabethwstewart@gmail.com
