Diary of a Techie Chick

Reaching 1 Million Kids with the Help of AugThat....

AugThat wants to help reach 1 MILLION students with their educational augmented content. They are going to give a free licence to every student or teacher no matter where you are in the world. All you have to do is contact Lisa (lisa@augthat.com) and let her know you want to be apart of #AR4Kids and she will set you up with the licenses you need and will give you access to the triggers. You will get a sample of the different types of augmented triggers that AugThat has to offer along with a few I've selected. My favorite triggers are their augmented 360 environments with their Virtual Field Trips becoming my 2nd favorite augmented triggers.

Not only do they want to give students access to educational augmented content they are going to give the top 5 schools with the most students using AugThat's content a iPad Cart for a Classroom, a Classroom Set of iPads, and a Lifetime License for AugThat. Don't worry if you have a small school they are going to go by percent of student use. So if you are a small school and you have 90% of your student body using AugThat's educational augmented content compared to a larger school and they they only have 40% of their student body using AugThat's educational augmented content you will be ahead of them.

When you are using augmented content with your students please share it with use by using the hashtag #AR4Kids and tag us. @katieann_76 & @augthat

Keep your eyes peeled on our Google+ Group Augmented Reality for Education's Augmented Lessons. I will be posting augmented lessons here.

When you use educational augmented content with your students please fill out this form. I would like to track how many kids are being reached with educational augmented content.

Reaching 1 Million Kids with Augmented Reality ....

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Augmented reality is a very powerful learning tool that transform the classroom like nothing else. You can bring the world even the universe to your classroom. My goal is to help teachers harness the power of augmented reality and help them use this powerful tool in their classroom. I would love to reach at least 1 million kids.

All you have to do is try at least one Augmented Tool with your students and let me know how many students tried the tool. There are several Augmented Tools you can try. I have a Symbaloo Board full of tools you can choose from. It is best to login to your Symbaloo and add this board to your list to view all of the tools.

After you have tried an Augmented tool please fill out this form. This will help me keep track of how many kids we are reaching with augmented content. You can fill out the form for each time you try an Augmented tool with your students. If you are using social media you can also share your experience with the Augmented tool by using the hashtag #AR4Kids.

I am working on creating lessons that are enriched with Augmented content. Keep your eye in our AR Lesson section in the Augmented Reality for Education Google+ Group. The next lesson I will be posting will be a unit over the book Charlotte's Web along with a few Augmented STEM lessons.

AugThat is wanting to help reach 1 Million kids through Augmented Reality and will give teachers a sample of Augmented content to help with this cause. To receive your augmented content please contact lisa@augthat.com and let her know you are helping us reach 1 Million kids please use the code #AR4Kids. She will set you up with an account and the give you access to their augmented triggers.

Blippar also has a Augmented building platform that is easy to use. You will need to contact Stephen and the EDU team at Blippar and he will set you up with a free account so you can start creating your own AR content. If you can drag, drop, copy & paste you can create simple Augmented content too. You can also reach out to me and I would love to help you create AR projects.

Some of My Favorite AR Tools:

Together Let's Reach 1 Million Kids with Augmented Reality!

Making Your Mark on the World ....

I love book The Dot by Peter Reynolds. September 15ish marks International Dot Day. I use the book to spark ways kids can make their mark on the world. Thanks to AugThat's augmented content and Quiver's augmented Dot Day coloring page I designed a fun unit for younger students.

Sometimes is just starts with a little mark, lets see where it take you!

Resources:

Make Your Mark - Unit by Katie Ann Wilson
STAR app by AugThat
Quiver app

Augmented Interactive Boards....

Augmented triggers bring learning to life and engages students like nothing before. Harnessing the power that AR has I've created an Augmented Interactive Board for my STEM class. On the board I've included triggers from AugThat. We are currently designing and building bridges out of paper, I call it my "Paper Bridge Challenge". On the board I have few augmented 360 triggers of views from a bridge or looking at a bridge to help spark some creativity for the designing process. I've also included 3D model AR trigger of the Golden Gate Bridge which I hang on a hook on the board. My students can take the 3D AR model back to their work area and explore the model as they are designing and building their bridge. I have also made some augmented triggers that guide students on how they could use paper to build their bridges.

When a student is needing a little more reinforcement to solve their design problem they can access the triggers when they need to. I am also reinforcing the concept of scale and ratios by asking my students to design a scale model of their bridge before they construct their bridge. To help with these concepts I am using AugThat's STAR sheets which have an augmented animated lesson on each sheet over the concept.

Having this board has really changed my classroom into a student center learning environment.

Augmented Interactive Board Ideas:

Math Challenges
Literacy Units
Elements Board
Building Character
Art Displays
Student of the Week
Famous Person in History
News