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Over the past year I have begun exploring different Augmented Reality learning environments for my students.  I had the good fortune of receiving 30 GPS enabled cell phones for my class that I could experiment  with the last three months of last year.  In that time I was able to piece together some Augmented Reality games for kids to play on our football field.  The results were astounding, the level of engagement and the conversations among students were highly educational and inspired me to look into this type of learning environment more. As I surfed the web I came across games such as:

• Sky Siege
• Pandemica: AR Shooter
• Zombie ShootAR

I began to wonder why could we not use this type of technology in our classrooms.  Getting the students into the real world and interact with virtual items or people to solve real world problems.  While the games I employed were simple and crude do to the time frame that I was under last year I did find that the learning and engagement of the concepts I was trying to teach increased in all students.  Also the post game discussions about the topic were much more productive since all of the students had a stake in the conversation due to the experience they just had playing the game. So this summer I have been looking at creating different types of Augmented Reality learning environments to use in my classes next year.  If you are looking to create these same types of learning environments or know someone who is please contact me.  I would like to know what you are looking at creating.

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What is Augmented Reality? REALLY!

Over the past year I have begun working on creating alternative learning environments in a real world setting.  In my quest to create these so called augmented reality environments I have begun to wonder if the term “augmented reality” is appropriate.  It seems as read other blogs and look at new apps for phones, that every time I turn around there is a new augmented reality application.  So my question is should we look at redefining what is augmented reality and maybe create different types or classifications?  What do you think?

Defining Augmentedness – What is mobile AR Part I The Camera

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Simple K12 Edtech Guest Blog

Check out my guest blog post on Concrete Classroom.  This post is the first in a series on a Augmented Reality experiment that is going to take place in my classroom over the last few weeks of school.  The object of this series is to look at the use of smart phones in the classroom to create Augmented Reality learning environments.

Click here to check out Concrete Classroom

30 Smart Phones and 5 Weeks: An Augmented Reality Classroom Experiment

http://concretekax.blogspot.com/2010/04/30-smart-phones-and-5-weeks-augmented_29.html

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Help!! 32 Handhelds and Two Months to Show Relevance in Education!

Over the past year I have been looking into augmented reality and how I can develop this medium for the classroom.  I have discussed this before in my blogs multiple times. (See links below.) At this point I have been lucky enough to convince my district to pilot 32 HTC Touch Pro 2′s in my classroom.  These devices will run windows mobile 6.5 and Goknow mobile software.  The district is going to pay for the data plans through Verizon.  This will allow me to begin to develop different types of augmented reality learning environments for my students.  At the present I see that I will use Mscape and Goknow, including  their multiple applications that they provide  with their service, to begin creating these learning environments.  The purpose of this blog is to asked others what have you used to create these type of learning environments?  Also what are your experiences using augmented reality in the classroom?  Since this is a pilot program that is getting started late in the year I don’t have much time to convince my district of the validity of these types of learning environments.  So any help here would be great so that I can prove the worth of these devices and be able to retain them for the upcoming school year.

Previous Posts on Augmented reality

1. Augmented Reality How do you use it?
2. Augmented Reality Lesson Plan “History Detectives”
3. Augmented Reality with Bing Maps The Wave of the Future?

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Augmented Reality with Bing Maps The Wave of the Future?

Saw this video and the ideas for augmented reality uses for kids in the classroom and thousands of ideas exploded in my head about the potential uses in education.  This is a fascinating video that will get you thinking about the use of this technology in the classroom.  Must see if you are looking at augmented reality games for students to learn from.

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