Aurasma

This is Aurasma.  Aurasma is a way to use technology to create a video presentation or photo and keep that documented file or video saved on a physical object that you took a picture of.  Kinda confusing explanation. A simpler way of describing it is allows you to "save" a photo/video to an object, and other viewers can "scan" the object in order to know more about it.  It's interesting...It can be very useful in a classroom because you can have an written object a student made (like a poem) and have them take a video of themselves reading it.  You can then take a mobile device (Apple iPad/iPhone) and "scan" it by using the app and placing your device on the poem, and the video with the student will come up of him/her reading it.  There can be many other things you can use it on, like setting out different objects (maybe for a science lesson) and allow students to "scan" them to gain access to knowledge about them, or a video of instruction about it.
It is a fun way to let students have technology, yet it can help with students giving presentations.  There are many other ways you could use it too (like setting different types of leaves, and having students guess what type of tree it is, and then scanning for the actual answer)

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http://www.aurasma.com/#/campaigns