One of the presentations at the SC Edtech conference last week was a presentation by Max Monroe from Pickens County using LAYAR. LAYAR is an advertising program which allows you to take any document, upload it to your account at the LAYAR site and embed audio, video, or hyperlinks. It creates interactive text documents with the web.
The process is this:
1. Create the interactive document at the LAYAR site.
2. Download the app for your mobile device
3. Scan the document using your mobile device
4. Click on the links which appear virtually.
This acts like a QR code reader only not as messy. The nice thing is that students can take the printed sheet home, scan it with their AR reader app at home and interact with the materials to refresh their minds about the lesson of the day, whether it be an audio recording of a story, a video, or hyperlink to a web page.
This can be used in music by taking a score of lead sheet , upload it to the LAYAR site, then adding hyperlinks to the history of the tune, musical concepts, definitions, and form related materials to the actual piece of music.
The site is at www.layar.com
