How can you make your bulletin boards come to life? Use the Aurasma app on your iOS or Android device to associate a video with any object or image in your environment. My students had fun doing this for Back-to-School Night. After creating a Defining Map about themselves and posting it on the board, they recorded a video using our class iPad and the Aurasma app. When visitors come in the room, they can start the app and point it at the students’ work products for a related video message. I must note here that the videos do not become accessible to other devices – to view them on another device, you must use the same Aurasma account or email the link to the person.
I kept it simple this first time, but I envision this having widespread application as students explain mathematical thinking, narrate their writing process, record a book review, and more. Imagine if your walls could talk! Now they can – give it a try!