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November 8, 2015 · 9:47 pm

Fun with Pumpkins!

We have been having some fun with a cool augmented reality app called Quiver (used to be known as CoLAR). I downloaded the trigger image page which is a colouring page found on their website. I had the children colour the page and then used our smart board to share what happens when you hold an iPad with the app open over the trigger image of the pumpkins. The pumpkins get up and dance around! Too much fun!

You can find additional pictures on their website. You can download the trigger images and experiment! There are a variety of trigger images to choose from with ranging in subject area. Some of the images are free. Some of the images require you to download the images within the app for a small fee.

We hope you enjoyed the little booklet we made to help us practise our Halloween or Fall vocabulary using the words we are trying to practice! The children had fun making the funky covers!

We have also been practising our new sight vocabulary words using our word bank bags. The children cut out the words and then try to make up sentences using the words. You should have received a small ziplock bag with a Halloween or Fall sticker on it with a lot of small pieces of paper with words on them last week. I hope the children taught you how to play with them! I took a few pictures of some of the sentences the children have created using these words. The object of the exercise is to create as many sentences as you can! We have the children create sentences and then we go around the classroom and try to read each other’s sentences! Hopefully you have had some fun creating sentences at home. It is a great way to practise the Dolch words in context! Please take pictures of the sentences you create at home and with your permission I will post them on our blog! Just email the pictures to me!

Here are the first sentences emailed to me! Yeah!

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June 18, 2015 · 9:46 pm

Open House Fun with Augmented Reality!

We had a great time getting ready to share our projects for our Open House evening. The children practiced using Aurasma to share their projects. We love using augmented reality apps to share our projects.

It was fun to see how excited they were opening their projects and taking a look at their friend’s projects too.

I loaded all the projects on our class channel so the students could view any of the auras we had created.

Each snowman triggers the corresponding video that we created using Chatterpix. You should be able to use the pictures on our Snowman project page to view all of the auras if you follow our channel.

Our channel is called mrsantonsclass. If you open the Aurasma app and search for our channel using the search option our channel should come up. If you follow our channel all of our cool auras should be accessible. You could also use the trigger images we created to view our iMovie trailers about Dinosaurs and Space that we created using the pictures we created using the Walking with Dinosaurs app, NASA Spacecraft 3D, and our new favorite go-to app – Green Screen by Do-ink. The trigger image is embedded on the creative writing pages. We linked the movie trailers to the projects using Aurasma! You should be able to view the movie trailers at home using the Aurasma app and the trigger image of the dinosaur or the spacecraft! Just remember to follow our channel!

We have talking dinosaur pictures and talking snowmen!

The children also got a chance to share their books that they have created.

Here are a few samples!

We used a lot of different apps to create our projects. Our favorite apps to create these books are My Story and Explain Everything.

We had a great turnout for our Open House evening! Thank you to everyone who made the special effort to come back to school in the evening to view our projects! It was greatly appreciated! Thanks to Isaak’s, Abrielle’s and Rayva’s Moms for helping me get the refreshments ready!

Rayva’s Mom made some awesome cupcakes for the event. Very yummy!

We shared a Photo Story about all of our projects too! We hope you enjoyed viewing the projects!

Sorry I didn’t get any pictures during the Open House! But we were very busy!

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June 18, 2015 · 8:30 pm

Our Alphabet Book! Augmented Reality Style!

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This is the alphabet book that we created this year using augmented reality! We think it is pretty cool!

We used a combination of apps to create this project. The children have been using the app AR Alphabet Flashcards this year a lot!

They love trying to hold the augmented images that appear when you hold the iPad over the trigger images.

We created the pictures for our pages in our book by having each student pick a letter. Then they searched the classroom to find other real objects that began with the letter they had chosen. We grouped the letters together around the trigger image picture. Then we opened up the app and took a picture of our collections with the trigger imaged engaged.

The children then imported the picture they took into the app Strip Designer from the camera roll. We used a simple frame to title each page. They then used the balloon option in this app to label the objects in the picture.

I imported all the pictures into Explain Everything in alphabetical order. Then we had Owen, Celia, and Elsa narrate the story!

We then saved it to the camera roll and I uploaded it to our Youtube channel to share with the world!

We hope you like it!

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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!

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May 31, 2015 · 6:53 pm

Frog Fun!

We have been having a lot of fun with our frog unit! The children have been working on creating a page using the iPads and an app called Strip Designer to create a page about the life cycle of a frog.

I pre-loaded some pictures of the various stages of the life cycle on the iPads and saved them to an album for the children.

They had to open up the camera roll and place the pictures in the frame we had chosen. After they had chosen their pictures and placed them in the corresponding spots they had to add the text.

As usual, they were fearless.

I had the children take turns one at a time on one iPad.

When one person finished they passed the iPad on the next person!

We also completed a research project about frogs!

We read the facts together and sorted them into the appropriate categories!

Then we put these covers on them! And we put them in a little pond! Ribbit!

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May 19, 2015 · 9:14 pm

Fun in Space! Using Green Screen and Augmented Reality!

We have been having a lot of fun with our new green screen app called Green Screen by Do Ink and an app I found last year called NASA Spacecraft 3D.

The NASA Spacecraft 3D app is an amazing augmented reality app! You can download a trigger image from their website, and use it to view an amazing variety of spacecraft that NASA has deployed in space over the last few decades. My favorite is the Curiosity spacecraft that went to Mars. I showed the children a few examples of the various spacecraft and then they chose one to pose with. Last year we took the pictures with the classroom for a background but this year we have green screen technology! We used our improvised green screen made of construction paper on the back of our classroom door to take the pictures this time. Now we can add an background from outer space!

We quickly were reminded that you cannot be wearing green!

When we put the picture taken with the green shirt as one of the images in the green screen app we found out that part of Celia had disappeared! She quickly put on her sweatshirt and we retook her picture!

I have downloaded a variety of images from the internet to use as our background images. The children picked the image they wanted to have in the background too! Now I have to figure out how to add videos to our green screen images!

The NASA Spacecraft 3D app is fun because not only does the trigger image allow access to a variety of spacecraft it also show them moving! It also gives a lot of information about the various spacecraft!

We will be using these images as a starting point to generate some creative writing!

It is a bit easier to imagine yourself in space when you have a picture that shows you there!

Watch for the voyages of the Starship Mountain View!

To boldly go where no child has gone before!

(Courtesy of Green Screen and augmented reality technology!)

(I love Star Trek!, Can you tell?)

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May 10, 2015 · 3:49 pm

Fun with Shapes!

We have been using the Explain Everything app to create our Shape books. The children used the camera option within the app to take pictures of objects in the classroom.

We made a list of the different shapes and they scoured the room taking pictures of the shapes they wanted to put into their books. Then they added a sentence describing their shape using the text option. After they had completed a cover page and their pages they went back to each page and recorded their voices reading each page. Some students even added arrows pointing to the words or objects on the page. Once that was complete I saved their project to the camera roll and uploaded it to Youtube.

The children were amazing. They found the objects that they needed and even learned how to crop their pictures so that only the part of the picture that had the shape they needed would be in the picture! They also recorded all of the pages all by themselves!

It was really fun to watch them create this book! They are becoming so independent and proficient on the iPads. Nothing scares them!

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May 10, 2015 · 3:48 pm

Green Screen Fun!

We have been having a lot of fun experimenting with a new app called Green Screen by Do Ink. I decided to give it a go on Earth Day. The children who wanted to be Earth Day reporters volunteered to be videoed sharing their thoughts about Earth Day. We downloaded some images from the internet about Earth Day and saved these images to the camera roll. Green Screen by Do Ink is a neat little app that lets the students be reporters just like on TV! You can add any image to the background using green screen technology! I placed several green construction papers on the back of our classroom door and presto! We had a green screen! Just like the weatherman! I am looking to improve our screen but it worked for our initial attempts!

First we created our video using the video option on the iPad. Then we opened the Green Screen app and begin layering our images! The first image to import is the background we used for our project. We had a few images that we had chosen to download to the iPad. The announcers chose the background they wanted for their project from that selection. Then we imported the video that we created and added that to the project.

We view our project and made some minor changes to the sensitivity of the filter.

When I downloaded the app I unfortunately did not download the animation component! I should have! Can you imagine if we had the opportunity to add an animation to our project! Will definitely have to download the upgrade!

You can save the project to the camera roll and there are a variety of options for sharing from there.

I think we have some aspiring news reporters in our classroom! Coming soon to a television station near you?

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April 30, 2015 · 7:31 pm

Augmented Reality Snowmen!

We have been having a lot of fun with the app Chatterpix! I took a picture of each of the snowmen and had the children bring their snowmen to life using the Chatterpix app. They had to add a mouth to their snowman and then talk for thirty seconds as if their snowman was talking. Some children chose to speak as their snowmen and others choose to speak in a conversation with their snowman. Some students preferred to talk about making their snowman with their family. Then I took the Aurasma app to link the Chatterpix video to their picture. Aurasma is an augmented reality app that lets you augment the viewing experience by adding another layer of participation to the object. In this case it is the picture of the snowman. To see the Chatterpix video you simply hold the iPad over the picture. The picture is now the trigger image within the Aurasma app that triggers the link to the Chatterpix video. This is called an aura. I have created auras for each of the snowman pictures linking the pictures and the Chatterpix video.

To see the auras you will need to download the Aurasma app. It is free! You do not have to join or sign in to see the auras. Click on the little triangle shape at the bottom of the screen. Choose the search option. Search for mrsantonsclass. You will be directed to all the auras that I have posted to that channel. Choose the channel option at the top of the screen. Click on the link for mrsantonsclass and you will be given an option to follow, like, or share the auras. You can choose to follow our channel by clicking on the follow option. Now all the auras posted to that channel will become available on the device you are using. Then you choose the option at the bottom of the screen that looks like a window. Hold the ipad over one of the pictures on this screen and a swirling image that lets you know the aura is activating.

You will then see the video staring up!

As you can see I was able to access the aura on my computer screen while writing this post!

Once you set up to follow a channel you will be able to access all of the auras that are created on that channel on that device. You will need to set up each device that you use to view the auras the first time. After that, you will be able to access any auras posted to the public channel when you use that device. Sometimes I post things to the private channel. Then you only get to see it if I email you the link. Lately, I have been posting everything to the public channel. Their projects are just so much fun to share!

I have also created a special page for all of our snowmen iPad project movies! They are all together in one space! Just click on the link at the top of the page to see the wonderful work the children did using the snowman pictures and the Explain Everything app! Enjoy!

I have also created auras for our dinosaur pictures that we took! When you hold the iPad over the picture you can see the dinosaur Chatterpix videos we created.

I will need to upload all the pictures to a page for you to view them.

You can also access this aura from the creative writing exercise that we completed about the dinosaurs invading our classroom!

I have created a page for the dinosaur pictures and the snowman pictures. You should be able to see the pages at the top of this blog! Just click on the page link at the top of this blog.

When you visit the page you will be able to activate the aura right away using your device and the picture on the computer screen.

Or you can wait for the pictures to come home in the scrapbook! I’m too impatient for that!

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April 12, 2015 · 9:54 pm

Fun with Bunnies!

We had a great time learning about rabbits these past few weeks. The children did a great job on their rabbit reports! We read and sorted the facts about rabbits into four different categories. The categories were What They Look Like, About the Babies, What They Eat, and Cool Facts. The children glued the facts onto the appropriate category page and then we turned the report into a rabbit! They did a great job!

We have been having a lot of fun hearing about the adventures of our three travelling bunnies. Each night, the three bunnies travel to a different child’s house for a sleepover. Each day we share the stories that have been written about their trip. We have really enjoyed the adventures that the bunnies have had at each house! Everyone seems very excited to have the bunnies come for a sleepover. Thank you for your efforts helping to record the stories!

Here are a few pictures of some of the adventures that the bunnies have had! Benjamin looks like he is really enjoying the story!

He likes to play games too!

Everyone seems to be really enjoying this picnic!

Thanks for sending me these amazing pictures and allowing me to share them with everyone!

We have also been having some fun with a few Peter Rabbit apps that I have downloaded on a few of the iPads. Even Peter Rabbit has an app! I have two favorite Peter Rabbit apps. I downloaded the app from the official Peter Rabbit site and shared it with my students the first year I used the iPads. This year it was as big a hit as it has been over the past few years.

You can have the story read to you or you can read it by yourself. On some of the pages you can take a shortcut to an activity page. Lots of fun!

I love the coloring pages on this one! It has a special paintbrush that paints with “Beatrix Potter” colors!

I also showed them the app called PopOut Peter. It has a jigsaw puzzle feature that I really enjoy. I think both of the apps might become favourites!

We also read a favorite story by Margaret Wise Brown called Home for a Bunny!

Margaret Wise Brown is one of my favorite authors. Her stories are timeless and the children always love them. We made story maps for this story and used our BooBoo Bunnies and a paper bag puppet we made to act out the story. Hopefully they were able to share their story maps with you!