Adding AR (Augmented Reality) To Your Interactive Notebook

Many teachers across our school district use Interactive Notebooks in their classroom. An interactive notebook is a collection of students' notes and graphics and often includes foldables glued into the notebook. Students "interact" with the notes to reinforce learning.

Why not boost interactive notebooks to include Augmented Reality? For example if your class is studying the solar system, you could give students a 2D picture of the solar system to glue into their solar system section of their interactive notebook. Visuals are great for students, especially struggling readers, however, what if you include a AR photo that can be glued into the notebook, scanned with an Smartphone or iPad and it creates a 3D model of the solar system or a video for students to interact with? How would this further enhance student learning?

What is Augmented Reality?



Curious? Now You Try!

Add the Aurasma App to your device and then open this document. Scan over the document and watch the video that populates on your screen.

AR outside of Education:

Google's Translation App goes AR

• Translate between 103 languages by typing
• Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and your translation pops up
• Offline: Translate 52 languages when you have no Internet
• Instant camera translation: Use your camera to translate text instantly in 29 languages
• Camera Mode: Take pictures of text for higher-quality translations in 37 languages

Additional Resources:

Educate: Tons of step by step content rich AR lessons

ISTE article: Use these Resources to Bring Augmented Reality to your Classroom

Creating QR Codes Step By Step Instructions

Creating AR with Aurasma App

New Tech Tools to Try as the School Year Comes to a Close

As the school year comes to a close, teachers are scrambling to review this concept and that concept. Test review can get a little tedious at times for both students and teachers. Here are some tech tools to spice it up!

Timer Tab- We all use timers to keep ourselves and our students on task. When I was in the classroom and reviewing for the end of grade test, I promised my students that if they worked really hard for me for 20 minutes we would take a brain break. Sometimes my brain break was playing a quick game of Simon Says or an impromptu dance party. To change it up I would sometimes show a short America's Funniest Home Video from YouTube. You know what they say about how laughter helps reduce stress! This Timer Tab allows you to set your time and when it goes off your YouTube Video will play right in your timer window.


Quizizz-This tool turns learning into a fun, competitive, interactive game. It is much like Kahoot, except Quizizz is different because the questions and possible answers are displayed individually on student devices. Quizizz works on all devices with a browser, including computers, tablets & smartphones.




Quizlet Live-Many of us love Quizlet for vocabulary review and have been using it for years. Have you tried Quizlet Live? It's Quizlet's way of gaming up the classroom. It's an online, question-and-answer matching game for small teams to play face-to-face in the same room. You can read more information here.


Spiral-This tool works on mobile devices and laptops. It's a unique way to engage your students with content and has three different applications to use. Quickfire enhances question and answer activities, enabling you to get the responses of the entire class in real-time. Discuss is powerful tool for creativity, exploration and deeper learning and encourages students to share ideas with each other. Team Up allows you to facilitate group work - with students sharing ideas and building team presentations.

 

Need a Makeover on the Cheap..See how NBHS Media Center Coordinator , Katie Darty and her team, did it!

One built a whiteboard tabletop out of shower board. Another painted a wall to create an easy green screen. Librarians dream up ingenious ways to save money and get creative in their libraries, and they're more than willing to share ideas. You, too, can take part in this thrifty crowd sourced design movement. Read more of Katie's article published in this month's School Library Journal here. 

 


NBHS Library Makeover On the Cheap

Digital Learning Day at NBMS

A big shout out to North Buncombe Middle for promoting Digital Learning Day! Check out the Padlet created by Shelly Cloninger and learn how NBMS teachers are using technology.

Created with Padlet

What's Up with Digital Learning

Lots of Digital Learning is happening around the county. Thanks to those who shared photographs and videos of what you are doing. Let's continue to share so we can inspire others.

Enka Middle School

During Jet Fuel, Enka Middle's remediation and enrichment block, Joseph Lilly's students are studying digital cell phone photography. Here is a link to some ideas on how to use cell phone photography in the classroom.



Enka High School

Several lessons are going on in the media center over the last few weeks that blend tech with instruction...

 

• Students in Mr. Frady's U.S. History class used the Explain Everything app on the Media Center iPads to create songs about the Bill of Rights. Students worked in small groups to create lyrics or raps that communicated their understanding and the importance of key amendments, and then the students presented them to the class. Here is an example.

• Mrs. Ro's ESL class used the web tool Voki to create avatars and then recorded themselves reading a summary they had written for The House on Mango Street. The students practiced their speaking skills while creating a greater understanding of their class reading.
• A small group of students in Mrs. Stanley-Marino's English IV Honors class created a Beowulf short using Final Cut Pro. Students demonstrated their understanding of the final scene of the epic poem by writing an original script and creating a short movie.

These are only a few of the great things going on with technology and instruction at Enka High School!

 

 

North Buncombe Middle School

 

At NBMS, we used Aurasma for Media Center student orientation. It was an interactive spin on a traditional orientation. The kids really enjoyed it! We'll be highlighting a new app with the classes each month during checkout with our new iPads! 

 

Erwin High School

 

• We are using our smart lunch hour for programs and activities (we do #ArtFriday, Reading Days, Movie Days, Gaming Club, Book Club...) and serve an average of 90-100 students, depending on the day and activity
• We have a new 3d printer and are working on ways to incorporate into computer science and drafting classes. Right now students can bring in useful things they want to print. Here's a great link for 3D Printing.
• Banned Books Week and Teen Read Week celebrations will include book giveaways, movie days, book talks, and more.
• We now have games like Jenga available for check out by students

Keep checking The Digital Edge for more digital learning ideas and activities from around the county!