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What is it?Imagine that every picture in your class came alive and engaged your students

Differentiate lessons discretely

Present two or three lessons simultaneously

Never repeat the same set of directions for each class

What subject does Aurasma lend itself to best?

Secondary Education

• Chemistry: Instructions for Lab set-up

• Geometry: Constructions• Algebra II: Solving

Systems• History: Biographies• Foreign Languages:

Vocabulary Review• English: Diagramming

Sentences

Elementary Education

• Estimating• Adding Fractions• Poetry• Writing Prompts• Weather Patterns• Days of the week• Months of the year• Wax Museum comes to

life

How???• Create Auras using your laptop, iPad, or Smart

device.• Auras are made by using an image (trigger)

and an overlay (video, web page, 3-D image)• Getting Started…..

– Think of one way that you could use Auras in your classroom.

– Find an image that you can print or that is in your room.– Find a video or create a video that supports the image.

www.aurasma.com

Create an

account

Select “Apply Now” and sign up

Once you sign up, Log into Aurasma Studio

Aurasma studio: Channels• Select Channels; create your own channel

Name your channel so that your students can easily find you.

If you want your students to be able to view your Auras with their device, make sure to click “Public”

Aurasma studio: Trigger Images• The best trigger images have a good

amount of detail .Try to use a digital image, or a photo taken from head on. Avoid anything reflective, or anything that moves or isn't flat.

Aurasma studio: Overlays• Overlays are images, videos, animations or even 3D

models that appear whenever Aurasma sees an image that it recognizes.

• Some Auras can have multiple overlays. For example, one overlay could be a video, and the second could be an image of a button saying “Click here for more help”.

Aurasma studio: Auras• Each Aura is created by tying together two different

pieces of information:• The trigger image or object which should cause the Aura

to appear, for example a poster on a wall.• The overlay that is inserted into the world when you view

the Aura, for example a video or animation.• To create an Aura you just need to pick one trigger

image and one overlay, then decide where exactly the overlay will appear on the image.

Aurasma studio: AurasAura Details:

Overlay properties allows for more than one overlay

Using iPad or smartphone

• Open App: choose “plus” symbol.

• Choose overlay: Device, Plus symbol, camera– Make a quick video,

accept• Capture trigger• Name Aura, public, Add to

Channel (Yes)

Get the Aurasma App

Auras are stored in Aurasma Central. Whenever Aurasma is running on a device it talks to Aurasma Central to download Auras which are of interest to that user.

Any Auras you create on this site will be uploaded to Aurasma Central ready to be delivered to mobile devices.

Now it’s your turn…go crazy!