Friday, March 16, 2012

Week 1 post 2


This is what i think a blog is: I will pick a subject and tell you what i think about it.  Of course, should any of you who have stumbled here with to comment on my comments you can and wish you world. However, it has been my experience that blogs are more to be written than read
In this blog, ‘virtual worlds as educational tools,’ is specifically about how I would like to  teach art and by art i mean a conflation of history and technology.

I am going to begin by Googling ‘‘virtual worlds’ and education.’ and but the most interesting links in the links page as well as in each post.

So I went here: http://www.angellearning.com/products/secondlife, signed up with Secondlife and somehow found my way into a virtual University of Delaware art gallery!  I am try to get my  “see” legs there. I will get back to you when I find the other museums promised. this could be the…
“…pushing this tech another step, I could, in the history part of my classes, begin with a visit to a museum, either a real one or a constructed-by-me one specific to the topic at hand. We could float 50-60 feet in the air to get a close look at the Sistine Chapels ceiling more interactively; with a controller in hand, we could fly around --learn about-- the, unseen by mere mortals, upper reaches of Chartres Cathedral.” I rattled about in the discussion board.

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