Tag Archives: Creative Writing

May 31, 2015 · 6:55 pm

3 D Space Fun! Augmented Reality Style!

We have been having a lot of fun with our Space theme! We created this movie trailer in iMovie using the pictures we created using a green screen app called Green Screen by Do Ink and the NASA 3D Spacecraft app. We took all the pictures we created and popped them into the storyboard in the iMovie app and then worked together to add the captions! We LOVE our movie trailer. We have watched it numerous times! We hope you will watch it too!

We used the movie trailer to get our imaginations going. We brainstormed together and talked about the things we had learned about space. Then I encouraged the children to write a story about their adventure in outer space. I printed off a colour print of the picture we created for each child and added it to a writing frame. The children seemed to find it very easy to imagine themselves in the story when they saw themselves in outer space. They wrote and wrote and wrote!

The stories are amazing. I have put them up in the hallway. Please come and have a look!

I attached the movie trailer to the creative writing using the Aurasma app. The rocket ship picture is the trigger picture for our movie trailer.

If you have the Aurasma app loaded on your idevice and you follow our channel you will be able to activate the movie trailer! Our channel is called mrsantonsclass.

The stories are amazing and a lot of fun to read!

Come and take a trip with our Mountain View Astronauts!

Dancing with Robots Fun!

We had a great time this week with a new app called Pop Lock Bot. It is an augmented reality app that lets the students dance with a robot!

We took pictures of each student posing with their new robot pal!

Even the school staff wanted to get in on the act!

Then we wrote stories about our robot pal! We wrote and we wrote and we wrote!

Then we made special robots to display our robots!

We also made an iMovie trailer using the robot pictures and the video we made of everyone dancing with the robots! We attached the trigger picture to the movie trailer with the Aurasma app. There is a trigger picture on each robot thanks to some help from one of my volunteer moms! I will be sending you the aura via email. The trigger picture is on the robot but I will be sending a separate trigger picture home tomorrow for those who can’t wait for the robots to come home! (like me!)

Dancing with robots is a lot of fun!

The Day the Dinosaurs Came to School!

We have had way too much fun with our dinosaur pictures!

I thought I would show you what else we did with the pictures!

I printed off the pictures of each child with their dinosaur on my color printer at home. Then I made up a writing sheet with the title The Day the Dinosaurs Came to School!

We looked at all the pictures together and brainstormed about the pictures and possible things that could happen if a dinosaur came to school! And we had the pictures as proof! What fun! Then the children started writing their stories! We have some amazing stories!

I also placed the trigger for the aura we made on Aurasma on the writing page as well as a special bonus! The aura is linked to the iMovie trailer we made with the pictures.

I sent the aura link home to everyone in an email already but now the picture trigger is embedded in the creative writing that the children did as well! You need the picture to trigger the Aura!

After the children finished working on their stories, we used the iPads to trigger the auras.

They all came running to see the first one!

I have put the finished products out in the hallway for everyone to see. The pictures alone are really cool and getting a lot of attention! (So glad I found this app!) The stories are amazing and fun to read.

Adding the aura with the iMovie trailer we made with the dinosaur pictures adds a fun extra! Sometimes, we have people who stop to look at the pictures and read the stories. Then if I can, I have them use my iPad and have them try our “secret code” trigger picture as well. They are always surprised to see a picture start an iMovie trailer!

Way too much fun!