The Audio-visual Communication and Advertising Department of the University of Alcalá de Henares in collaboration with Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de Guadalajara (SLIJ) and the Provincial Delegation of Education, have organised the course "Augmented Reality as a tool for storytelling".
This training course, aimed at active teachers who teach in non-university educational centres, will allow them to learn about the use of the augmented reality application ContAR in the classroom.
This course will be held in three sessions in the first trimester of the year: 12th January; 9th February and 9th March, at Teaching College in Guadalajara. This course will last 18 hours and its realization will result in the awarding of two credits. The timetable of the course will be from 17.00 to 20.00 hours.
The augmented reality app ContAR is an initiative developed through the European project Storytelling cites and cities. The application has been designed by a group of researchers from the Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Department of the UAH.
ContAR is an augmented reality APP that includes a library of 16 3D objects taken from a selection of stories contributed by the partners of the European project.
The aim of creation of this app is to provide an additional tool in oral storytelling to tell stories and represent a fictional world through the use of augmented reality.
ContAR is focused on a child audience, mainly children under 13 years old, so all the content design is planned to work both on mobile devices and tablets.
ContAR is an APP designed to bring young audiences closer to a popular tradition such as oral storytelling. All the content included in the application has been supervised by education professionals in order to preserve children's rights and not to violate their innocence.
