by Renata Prest (Year 2 teacher) and Alan Hoskin (Digital Literacy Coach)
Grade/Year level: Year 2
SAMR
Modification
Description
The purpose of this project was for students to take what they had learned about Florence Nightingale and write a script about an important event in her life. They were arranged in groups of 2 - 4 students depending on the number of characters needed for the scene.
This fulfilled the writing task they were working on as well as practicing to speak in front of an audience.
Once the script was checked and the actors had practiced their parts, they were filmed in front of a green scene so images from Florence's life or pictures of Victorian scenes could be inserted.
Originally the filmed scenes were going to be edited in iMovie and then placed up on Haiku for the students and parents. Alan had seen an app called Aurasma demonstrated at a conference that would allow objects to trigger the playing of content such as video clips from an iPad.
The scenes chosen for the iMovie back drops were printed and became the triggers for the students movies making it look like they were performing in the picture.
This allowed the pictures to be displayed on the wall along with questions for students to answer. With the iPad in hand students could answer the questions by hovering the iPad over the picture (with the Aurasma app open) and a movie (or Aura) would play.
Challenges
The part that took the longest was writing the script. More time needed to be attached to this part of the process to get quality writing.
Opportunities
The use of the Aurasma app adds a new dimension to viewing displays. How easy it was for students to move from one scene to the next allowed for review of answers. The app and associated website is free allowing teachers to setup Aurasma quickly and easily on their iPads as well as the use of Aurasma Studio on the web for making content accessible to school iDevices as well as parent devices.
Resources needed
iMovie with green scene feature (on school Mac machines and iPads)
Green Screen materials available in ES, BS and MS
Aurasma app (for iDevice and Android) free to play Auras
Aurasma Studio, web based, free subscription
Time involved
Writing the script - 1 hour
Practising - 20 minutes
Filming - 40 minutes
Editing - 3 hours
Creating for the Aurasma app (first time) - 3 hours
Contact information
Renata Priest: renata.prest@seoulforeign.com
Alan Hoskin: alan.hoskin@seoulforeign.com
