{"id":2507,"date":"2014-10-31T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2014-10-31T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:45:46","slug":"app-smash-touchcast-aurasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/app-smash-touchcast-aurasma\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: App-smash Touchcast with Aurasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Green screen fun: embed yourself in a book cover<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/app-smash-touchcast-aurasma\/touchcast_aurasma_kiki\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2574\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/touchcast_aurasma_kiki-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"app-smashing Touchcast with Aurasma\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/touchcast_aurasma_kiki-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/touchcast_aurasma_kiki.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s super-fun to make book trailers to embed in book covers with Aurasma, but how much cooler would it be to see your friend explain *in person* why they liked that book?<\/p>\n<p>You know this would rock! And be time-effective for getting a bunch of different students&#8217; opinions embedded in your newest library display.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely doable. App-smash Touchcast with Aurasma and boom! Hear from actual, real-live people made tiny in book covers.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do this!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Step 1! Make your own green screen<\/h2>\n<h3>Eight dollars and a dream<\/h3>\n<p>Behold! It&#8217;s the US$8.00 do-it-yourself green screen option:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>using packing tape, we taped plain green cotton over our Smart Board,<\/li>\n<li>downloaded the free Touchcast app onto an iPad,<\/li>\n<li>then salvaged a giant empty cardboard box from the recycling pile so the iPad was a) at the right height, and filming steadily, since our camera operator drinks way too much coffee to be hanging onto equipment steadily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alwaysThinglink\" style=\"max-width: 80%;\" src=\"\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/api\/image\/584025213390290944\/1024\/10\/scaletowidth#tl-584025213390290944;1043138249'\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was easy to find a couple of willing green screen participants being that everyone at the Tarrant Institute is always down for experimenting with tech and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/lc3yeWIgQ2A\" target=\"_blank\">having a blast doing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Having read the book in question really turned out to be optional. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2! Build a regular Aurasma aura with the book cover<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Aurasma_Studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2512\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Aurasma_Studio-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"App-smash Touchcast with Aurasma\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Aurasma_Studio-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Aurasma_Studio-619x395.jpg 619w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Aurasma_Studio.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hop into Aurasma Studio and upload a photo of the book cover for your trigger.<\/p>\n<h3>But for the overlays&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>I whipped up two quick buttons in Preview as overlays, and added each video as its own separate overlay. Then, I used the Aurasma Studio&#8217;s Properties\u00a0panel (lower left) to connect each button to\u00a0the person&#8217;s review. \u00a0Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3riI5mT32s\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/jse\/embed.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green screen fun: embed yourself in a book cover It&#8217;s super-fun to make book trailers to embed in book covers with Aurasma, but how much cooler would it be to see your friend explain *in person* why they liked that book? You know this would rock! And be time-effective for getting a bunch of different &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/app-smash-touchcast-aurasma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: App-smash Touchcast with Aurasma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[18,247,80],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality-ideas-for-educators","tag-aurasma","tag-reflector","tag-touchcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}