Aurasam

Day 2: Aurasma

Our next session introduced a program call Aurasma.  Aurasma was an app that permitted any user to create their own augmented reality. 

Click here for a quick video of how augmented reality works on TED talk. 

I watched a couple of the tutorials and promotions on their website and wasn’t able to come up with a way to incorporate this program to my own classroom.  After I pondered on it for a while, I realized that I could use it in my profession every day!  Since my students struggled with completing their homework on their own, I decided to use Aurasma to provide quick tutorials on difficult problems.  This allowed my students to use Aurasma to get help at home if needed.  Also, it is very common for my students to be absent from class.  Therefore, I took pictures of my finished notes so that students would be able to see the notes and not be too far behind when they came back.  Since there was only about a month left of school, I did not get to try it enough to get a strong feeling about it.  However, based on the feedback I received from some of my students, it seemed like they found it helpful to be able to get instant assistance on their homework assignments.  In addition, they expressed that it was fun and entertaining to play with even if they didn’t need the help. 

Overall, I thought this program was great and I would try it more often next school year before I can fully implement it into my practices.  I was also told that one of my classmates used Aurasma to record her students’ presentations so that the parents could see it during Open House as if they were in a live museum.  I also enjoyed this discovery because it could easily be used in any profession and could personalized their own video to make it fit for their stakeholders.

Click here for more ideas on how to implement Aurasma in your classroom!