ar workshop
TRANSCRIPT
What’s Your Aura?
Using augmented reality to create
engaging learning activities for students
Karen Miller, Michele Gradisen and Jenny Lee
• What is augmented reality and how is it used in
higher education?
• How we are using AR at Curtin Library
• Aurasma – the ins and outs
• Let’s create an augmented reality ‘experience’
• Discussion
http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frrZbq2LpwI
Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality- TED talk on Aurasma
Access content
signage, publications, textbooks,
Storytelling, games
Create content
Learning activities
Assignments
Presentations
http://www.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/students-use-hi-tech-ipads-medical-training
Accessing relevant content
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/04/augmented-reality-emerging-education-technology/
http://www.ucs.ac.uk/About/News/2012/20120305_UCS-bring-publication-to-life-with-augmented-reality.aspx
Leah Irving and Julie Hoffman, Curtin University Nyungar Place Stories Pilot: using augmented reality for Indigenous cultural sustainabilityPresented at Ascilite 2014https://app.box.com/s/016cdyv8dq1pp0yhp1vw/1/2704865198/23032570438/1
Location based learning activity
http://educade.org/lesson_plans/create-a-narrative-driven-scavenger-hunt-with-aurasma
Students create content –Narrative driven scavenger hunt
http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/06/the-wall-street-journal-goes-augmented-reality-and-publishes-a-bar-chart-with-actual-bars-for-3d-printers/
Incorporating AR with other activities –Data visualisation and 3D printing
The Curtin library experience
Collaboration with AHEAD (Addressing Higher Education Access Disadvantage)
Games based activities
• Library orientation activity
• John Curtin – biography and archives
http://youtu.be/LPDrb4xW6uQ
Video of Year 8 students playing ‘What a Kahoot’
Aurasma
• Key terms – trigger, overlay, aura
• Create auras with the ipad, or Aurasma studio
• Auras are accessed through ‘Channels’
Discussion questions• What are the benefits of using AR in teaching and
learning?
• What are the drawbacks / obstacles to using AR
• What key elements make using AR an authentic
learning experience
• How could you use it in your curriculum?
Activity
create an augmented reality
experience that adds meaning
to a set of images
Thanks! Karen Miller
Learning Services Coordinator
Curtin University Library
Email [email protected]
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