My First Use of AR in the Classroom

This week I used Augmented reality in my classroom.  Here is what I did.  I downloaded Aurasma and played with it some at home.  I tried my wife to use it and even drew a picture and gave her an AR note in her lunch (yes, I pack her lunch every day for work and write her notes).  It was pretty cool.  So one day while we were working on drawing unit fractions on number lines I created a short tutorial video on a strategy students could use in class (in addition to my video, which must have been awesome because no one used the tutorial video strategy).  I thought I could use AR to send this video to some kids who bring their iPods into class and have already downloaded Aurasma.  So I set it up with a little set of fraction strips as the trigger, printed them out, and the kids were really excited.  They ultimately didn't use the fraction tiles I suggested in the video, but they did demonstrate to me they could put fractions on a number line in two ways (so I guess the first video I made last summer must have been great).

That was my starting point.  Meanwhile, we are working on a global project for global field day coming up on May 9th.  We have been doing some research on Japan and I thought we should focus in our last effort of the year on Pokemon.  It is a topic that most third graders love.

Part of the competition is going to be a costume competition, obviously students are selecting Pokemon to dress up as.  I still need to work on my costume as a Pokemon trainer.  One group of students has started coming up with ideas for our bulletin board.  They are going to have colored in pictures of Pokemon with our driving question of "What Pokemon represents you?" and then student work explaining what Pokemon they chose.  It hit me this weekend I need to guide them to using AR on this bulletin board.  It would work perfectly if they just used the Pokemon images as the trigger and then we had a video of the student presenting his/her work.

Here is my question, how do I communicate this to people using the bulletin board?  I was thinking put up a list of the following steps:

1. Download Aurasma on your mobile device/Smart Phone
2. Go to (link to subscribe to my Aurasma channel) and a QR code 
3. Open Aurasma and hold your device over the images to scan them

Is that enough?  Is it not enough?  Has anyone tried anything like this before?  I was thinking just a regular piece of paper with instructions in the corner of the bulletin board so the kids can use the rest.