This is an aura that I created, this specific part was the trigger image, this means that when you scan this image an example of this literary term and what it means will show up. In this assignment I had to create 5 auras and they all had to work. Two of the overlay images had to be videos of myself defining the word and giving examples. This assignment kind of led up to us writing and illustrating our children's book, it gave me a chance to really experiment with the auras and the aurasma app.
At first I thought this assignment was going to be difficult because the trigger image had to be track able. But when I got to it I really liked it, I ran into a few problems but mostly it worked out well. If I had to do this again I would want to make more track able trigger images because I had some issues with that. I didn't think that the assignment was that difficult, you just had to make a track able trigger image. I liked this assignment because it is really cool how all of this works and it gave me some time to experiment with new things.
This is a link to my children's book, my task was to write a children book that consisted of 1000 words. We had to set it up like a children's book so I had to put only a few words on each page. On every page that we had we had to draw an illustration that had to do with the writing on the page. We have to have seven auras and have at least 4 video overlays. We had to come up with a topic that was related to a STEM topic. I chose the rock cycle, so how rocks are formed. My book is about an igneous rock that gets seperated from her family and goes on an adventure to find them again. During that time she gets turned into all the three different rocks, and at the end she gets reunited with her family.
I think that I am doing pretty well on this assignment, I feel like I'm ahead and all I have to do is make auras. If I had to do this again I would probably want to make better illustrations and try not to trace as much. I was allowed to trace but I had to do some of my own drawings which I did but if I was feeling more motivated I probably would have drawn better illustrations. The assignments wasn't really difficult, once you got your story line planed out and started writing it went along really fast. I sort of liked this assignment but kind of didn't. I liked it because it would be cool to make auras and be able to show other people. Something I didn't like about this is that I had to do illustrations on every page. Even though I could trace I'm not really an artsy person and it took a while to trace and color.