Creating an Aurasma poster about The School and Staff to inform parents, guests and new students by using Simple Present Tense.

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1 AURASMA SCHOOL POSTER Teacher School Country Lesson Class Reyhan Güneş Tevfik ileri Middle School Turkey English 6th Age of Students 12 Number of Students 33 Time of implementation Dec 2013 June 2014 Class web Page: Learning Activities Design Based Learning Activities Learning Story Creating An Object/ Creating An Aurasma School and Staff Poster Subject Creating an Aurasma poster about The School and Staff to inform parents, guests and new students by using Simple Present Tense. Objectives Create an appropriate media product that reflects understanding of format, characteristics and purpose. Use modelling skills to construct a model of the school Describing model of the school by using simple sentences, There is/are, Simple Present Tense and Prepositions of Place Create a publishable poster about the school Give a simple description or presentation of the school staff, living or working conditions, daily routines, likes/dislikes, etc. as a short series of simple phrases and sentences by using Simple Present Tense Translate a script from from Turkish to English and dubbing it Use Aurasma Use Sketchup Use Tellagami, Morfo, Crazy Talk Make animation

2 Demonstrate the use of various web and technology tools Model cooperative behavior while working in a group Tools Web and Device Based: o Animations/Talking Avatars: Tellagami, Morfo, Crazy Talk o Augmented Reality: Aurasma o Blog and LMS: Wikispaces o BMS/Behavior Management Tools : Class Dojo, Sokikom o Connect and collaborate : Edmodo o Design : Explain Everything o File Sharing: Three Ring, Taught o Image Editor : Fotor o Interactive images: Blabberize, Thinglink, Fotobable o Mind mapping: Poplet, Maptini, Pearltrees o Modeling and Interactive Image : Sketchup, Gliffy o Poll : Poll Everywhere o Poster : Canva, Glogster, Easel.ly o QR Code: Visualead, Zippy o Reflection : Flipgrid, Reflex, TeamUp o Screen casting: Camtasia, Screenr o Team Forming: TeamUp o Video Downloading: KeepVid, Freecorder o Video Editors : Metta, Wevideo, Magisto, Wistia, Pixorial o Web-Conferencing : MashMe TV, BigblueButton, WızIQ itec Environment: o itec SDE o itec Resources o Promethean LRS o The Composer o The People and Events Directory o itec Widget Store (Activity_Timer_Rocket Widget)

3 Learning Spaces and Hardware An ipad, tablets, Lap tops, mobile phones, web cams, projector, digital cameras. Inspiring Question How can you introduce new students, parents and guests to your school using an Aurasma poster? Dream ACTIVITIES The students are read a letter from the school principal saying that She/he has asked the students to create a poster/bulletin board for new students and parents about their school and staff. Also, a video can be played or the principal can be invited to the class. To do this Aurasma will be a more amazing app they will experience. Then they are introduced what the Aurasma is. The videos about Aurasma are thoroughly watched. Sketchup tool is also introduced. Teams of 5 students are formed with Teamup. They talk about the theme and think about it. The wikispaces project blog where they described themselves and the design being presented. They are asked how to do their design. They discuss and share their ideas together with media (videos and documents) by connecting and communicating using a newsfeed on wikispace and Edmodo. They use reflection tools. Teacher posts about the apps via Edmodo to get the students to be acquainted after the session. Later, their ideas gathered and categorized by poplet/maptini. Teams shared the topic and made their mind maps. Explore The students use their own devices (BYOD/Bring Your Own Device). They browse the comparable designs and share ideas. They can bookmark websites and arrange their bookmarks into mindmaps of related topics with Pearltrees. They experience Aurasma, using some images and videos. Sample videos of themselves are created by animation/talking avatars. They may use their photo and animate it. Tellagami, Morfo, Puppet pals, Crazy Talk, Explain Everything are experienced. They post all the medias and reflect. The first Auras describing themselves are made and shared on their design web page and class bulletin board. Some of the teams will work with the school staff to explore the building while some of them will make interviews with the teachers. Modeling teams browse the Sketchup instructions and make samples. They survey the school and find out how many classrooms, labs, gym, playground, teachers room, administrative rooms exist and

4 the proportions. They will sketch out various parts of the building as they explore. The poster should introduce the school and visitors, and tell students where the rooms are. The team will use Sketchup/Gliffy to model the school. They interwiev with the school staff. The teams asks the school teachers, administrators about their personal information, hobies, habits, daily life and takes notes or have recordings. They take the photographes and may take videos of them to use as the trigger, overlay of the Aurasma. Their photos will be animated by using Tellagami Tellagami/Morfo/Puppet pals/crazy Talk. They may use screen casters, Camtasia/ Screenr. They make video conferences with their teacher to explore the tools with MashMe TV/ BigblueButton/ WızIQ. Map Students bookmark when they are conducting online search. They bookmark critical web pages on backbags of Edmodo. They map media files by using Poplet/Maptini. They create mind maps of how to use Aurasma and Skechup. The The information gathered about the school are maped again using the mapping tools. They sketch out various parts of the building make rough draft of the school plan. Teams make visual notes about their design and map them on mind mapping tools Poplet/Maptini. Students share their drafts and mind maps with their peers and parents by Edmodo and the blog for having feedback to make it refine. Reflect At the end of each work session students will individually record their thoughts on what they did, plan to do and the challenges they encountered or can foresee on Reflex or Flipgrid. Teams listen recordings by others and coach them. Teams embed or upload their work on project web page Wikispaces, Edmodo/ Three Ring/Taught to share and have comments on them from parents, other classes, teachers, school principal, assistant principal. They discuss comments and record them. Other itec community or country classes may be collaborated. Then their comments are discussed, reflected and shared. They present their draft Auras and School Model on their class bulleten board to other classes, teachers, school principal, assistant principal. They discuss and reflect. Teacher scripts translated and student s voices are recorded. Translations and voices are shared to be commented, corrected. Video Conferences are made with students for overall disscussions and reflections.

5 Make The teams learn how to use Aurasma Studio. QR code formed for the Aura channel. They get appointments from teachers, principle, other staff and record them on their mobile phones as a task. They share these appointments on their project blog by adding google calendar on the page and Edmodo, class project facebook page. Students interwievs with the staff and take photos. If the staff allows, they video them or record their voices. The interwievs will be done in English with English speaking teachers otherwise in Turkish. The Turkish speech texts are translated into English. Translations are shared on online media so that they can get feedback and refine them. They may also want help from other English teachers. They read the texts and record. They share the sound files in all online medias. Students having tablets use face of teachers in Morfo/Tellagami and record their voices. Students having lap tops use Crazy talk/blabberize/fotobabble to animate the their faces of the staff. The animated faces with their voices are used as trigger images. The printed staff photos specified as overlay. Auras are made. Some can use Camtasia/Screenr for recording animated faces and download them. The Sketchup teams take the photos and videos of the school. They print the model of the school they created. Auras of the school are made. Teams create posters using Canva/ Glogster/Easel.ly. They display the staff portraits and school model on posters. QR code linked School Aurasma Channel put on them. The posters are printed and sticked on the class bulleten board. They view their posters and poll them. They are all shared on their project blog and commented. Teams view posters and vote for the them with Poll Everywhere. They disscuss with respect to their resulting votes and record their reflections. Collaboration They share all of their works with their parents, students, teachers, asisstant principles and principle and get feedback. Students may collaborate with students from other countries or itec schools. They communicate with the class facebook group having some of school staff. Facebook itec teacher community, itec students collaborate network is used for sharing outcomes and for establishing collaboration beyond the school. Web conference or Skyping may be established with the tools MashMe TV, BigblueButton/ WızIQ/Skype.

6 Remake The students remake their Aurasma posters/maps with respect to the comments of their participants. Show The teams upload their video stories together with the project blog to an online video sharing platform, being YouTube and Vimeo. The video stories are also linked through the itec facebook groups. The Aurasma Bulleten Board about the School and the Staff is prepared on the hallway of the school. An exibit will be performed. The students bring their families to the exibit. All the of the teachers, Parent Teacher Organization members, students, assistant principals and principal are invited. Evaluation o Project Rubric o Blog Rubric o Collaboration Rubric o Peer Evaluation o Class Dojo/Sokikom Behavior Management