iPad Applications

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CoLAR Mix 

Take 1D colouring pages and make them 3D!              

Augmented Reality is definitely  a trend in educational technology today and for this year. This application demonstrates this perfectly. 

Have your students colour the CoLAR app colour pages anyway they like and the application will make their colouring a 3D, interactive image! 

How To Use The Application:

After selecting the CoLAR Mix application from the home screen of the iPad, select the pages option to view the colouring pages that are available to print. This will allow the viewing of the colouring pages from the iPad and provide instructions to visit the CoLAR App website to print the pages directly from a computer. There are many free colouring pages, and others are available for a fee.  The application will only work with the specific colouring pages printed from this website.  Then visit the website, www.colarapp.com, and print off the students’ desired colouring pages. After the student has coloured their colouring page, return to the home screen of the application and click “play”.  Focus the colouring page in the middle of the iPad’s screen and watch the box turn blue to verify that the camera can see the whole page. The screen will then turn the colouring page into a 3D image that has designated animations. There are buttons at the top of this page which allow for further features. The camera allows for screen shots of the image and has the ability to save to the image gallery on the iPad, which can be used to document the students’ work. The magnifying glass can make the 3D animation bigger or smaller and the pause button can pause the animation. There is also music that accompanies the animation, which can be turned on or off with the music note button. 

This application will blow your AND your students' minds! It truly shows the possibilities that technology brings to the classroom. 21st century learning and thinking at it's finest!