Educational Ideas
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Engage your students and involve your parents by creating making your bulletin board interactive!
- Scavenger Hunt: Take your students on a scavenger hunt through a fairy tale book.
- Homework Mini-Lessons: When students scan a page of their homework, the page reveals a video of their teacher helping them solve a problem.
- Explain New Concepts - Use an image from content the students are reading to act as a trigger, have a short video give students a deeper explanation of the concepts.
- Faculty Photo Wall: Set up a display of faculty photos near the school entrance. Visitors can scan the image of any instructor and see that figure come to life, telling more about him- or herself.
- Homework Help - Short videos could be used as overlay on homework to help illustrate math processes, remind students of grammar rules, and provide any extra assistance students may need so they can successfully complete the homework.
- Book Reviews: Students record themselves giving a brief review of a novel that they just finished, and then attach that "aura" (assigned digital information) to a book. Afterward, anyone can scan the cover of the book and instantly access the review.
- Student Reports - Have students create their own content for reports. For a state report, different images such as the state flag and state flower could be used as triggers that pop up an overlay with more detailed information. Bring famous people from history to life with students acting out their most famous moments or words.
- Parent Involvement: Record parents giving brief words of encouragement to their child, and attach a trigger image to every child's desk. Anytime students need to hear encouraging words from their parent, they can scan the image on their desk for virtual inspiration.
- Yearbooks: From tributes to video profiles, from sports highlights to skits and concert footage, the ways that AR can enhance a school yearbook are limitless.
- Word Walls: Students can record themselves providing the definitions to different vocabulary words on a word wall. Afterward, anyone can use the Aurasma app to make a peer pop up on screen, telling them the definition and using the word in a sentence.
- Vocabulary Words: Use the cover of a book or cover page of a story as a trigger image, have a picture of the vocabulary words used as the overlay.
- Lab Safety: Put triggers (images that activate media when scanned by an AR-enabled device) all around a science laboratory so that when students scan them, they can quickly learn the different safety procedures and protocols for the lab equipment.
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Sign Language Flashcards: With AR, flashcards of vocabulary words can contain a video overlay that shows how to sign a word or phrase.
- Open House Tours: Put a target at centers and parents can see a video of students working at the center
- Center Based Directions: Place target at centers so students don’t have to interrupt teacher to have directions repeated
- School Tours: Place targets throughout school so parents can see what happens during the school day
- Positive Postcards: Embed a greeting on postcard
- Living Art Gallery: Students create a piece of art and create a video to explain their art.
- Student of the Month: Target contains a video of the student accepting their award.
- Parent-Teacher Conference: Each student creates a video of questions they think their parents should ask.
- Exit Slips: Exemplar work could be embedded into an exit ticket
- Rubrics: Embed a rubric on an assignment using a target. Rubric is always attached to the assignment.
- Procedures - Have short videos to explain how to use school equipment or a reminder of procedures, using appropriate triggers.
- Endless Possibilities - Once you and your students begin creating auras, you all will find new creative ways to create and present content.