This presentation was part of a webinar run by Jisc RSC on 03/06/14 called 'Learning Providers as MakARs - how Augmented Reality is being used in practice'.

2. Gail Millin-Chalabi
Geodata Research & Development Officer
Learning, Teaching and Professional Skills (LTaPS)
AR @ Mimas
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3. Presentation Overview
• Fabulous Frogs app: Splendid & Native: Primary
school children
• Linking into the National Curriculum
• Working with Manchester Museum Vivarium
• UKMap app: Engaging high school children with
maps
• Test run at the Science & Engineering
Technology Fair
• AR in the City app: FE & HE
• Helping students to understand social statistics
• Not just AR – work sheets on evaluating Crime,
Housing & Family statistics
What is AR?
Augmented Reality (AR) is a
term for superimposing
computer graphics over a live
view of the real world
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4. Fabulous Frogs app: Splendid & Native
AR app targeted at 7 – 11 years
Curriculum
• Maps to Key Stage 2 of the National
Curriculum in England & Wales
• Maps to “responsible citizens” and
“successful learners” capcities of the
Scottish Curriculum for Excellence
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Learning Outcomes
• Key facts about the Splendid Leaf Frog – what it looks like; where they live; what they like to eat
• Understanding frog anatomy
• Frog life cycle – comparisons between Splendid Leaf Frog and the native Common Frog including
quick quiz questions for each stage of the life cycle
• How they can help to look after frogs by taking care of the environment

5. Fabulous Frogs app: Splendid & Native
Collaboration with Manchester Museum - Vivarium
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Benefits of Collaboration
• Working with specialists in their field: Curator of Herpetology – Andrew
Gray & Vivarium Assistant – Adam Bland
• Provide high quality content for app
• Chris Mattison photograph of Splendid Leaf Frog (gave
permission to use for this app)
• David Attenborough clip of Splendid Leaf Frog (taken after
Vivarium visit in Spring 2014)
• Suggestions for implementation in Vivarium gallery space
• Opportunities to promote app at Big Saturday events
(child/parent feedback)
• Potential to work with Education Team at Manchester Museum to
interegrate the app into school visits/ promote to teachers
• Link the app to current well know resources such as Frog Blog
• The app will promote current Vivarium work such as Sponsor a Frog and
Frog Blog.

6. UKMap app
High School: 12 – 16 years
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• Tested at the National Science and Engineering
Fair in March 2013
• Pupils can flick between mapping layers of
building heights and retail classifications
• Key provided and explanation of terms
used
• Make mapping data more engaging, fun and
interactive but teaching them the skill of
reading and extracting information from several
map layers
• A quiz sheet was provided where pupils had to
find the answers to the questions using the app
• Gave pupils access to high quality commercial
datasets from The GeoInformation Group (TGG)

7. AR in the City app
FE & HE Sociology Undergraduates
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What?
To make evaluating & working with statistics more
accessible to sociology students.
Who?
Mimas – Led by Matt Ramirez
British Sociological Association – Judith Mudd
British Society of Criminology – Helen Jones
Why?
• Sociology students can embark on a degree
without obtaining a Grade C at GCSE level
• Many find statistical analysis difficult to understand
How?
• This app eases students into the world of stats by engaging them in debate around the data
presented to them using worksheets developed for the app
• Visualised using monopoly pieces for an iconic area of London the facts & figures are presented
in an informal way

8. Thanks for Listening
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