Minnesmark iPad App

Let your students go out for a treasure hunt and explore both their physical surroundings and the media of your choice.

Can now be downloaded from App Store for Swedish users.

Experience shows that teachers can motivate students by giving them different experiences in places other than the classroom. The Minnesmark App complement teaching inside school with learning environments outdoors, by providing teachers the possibility to send out students on a treasure hunt to explore your prepared media in the outdoors environment to get different impressions and experiences that can trigger the learning process and the reflection in action. The students finds "treasures" in the form of media that will be sent to them over e-mail at the end of the treasure hunt, and work can then continue inside the school to establish and communicate learning.

The Minnesmark iPad App is an augmented reality browser that offers the opportunity to present information to the student in the situation and context in which he or she is. It can be used for different media events by adding text, pictures and sounds in the user's field of view. It becomes possible to create a combination of two different perspectives - for example to add historical information on top of the phone camera's current image of the environment. Media can be triggered as the student approach a "station" and their iPad receives a signal via GPS that they are in the right area. For example, the sound of carts rolling over cobblestones can be heard if the students are approaching an old marketplace. When they direct the camera of the iPad towards a deployed visual marker they can see what the marketplace looked like 200 years ago. But this is just an example! We want to emphasize that it is up to the teacher and students what events are triggered in the iPad. An editor for creating augmented reality treasure hunts accessible via the Minnesmark App can be downloaded from this website.

Important

This App reads treasure hunts created with the Minnesmark Editor. You can download the editor from the section Editor in the menu.

Features

• Enjoy a traditional outdoors treasure hunt experience guided to the treasures by an arrow on your iPad.
• Print a paper map that comes to life as you point the camera of your iPad to it.
• Watch and hear your media come to life on your iPad when you get to designated places.
• Point the camera of the iPad to specific markers to active media.
• Pick up treasures in the form of media that will be sent to you over email at the end of the treasure hunt.

 

Page responsible: Mattias Arvola
Last updated: 2015-04-27