Virtual Museums

A virtual museum seems a good way to get at the background of whatever it is you are trying to teach. For me posting a VM would get the students thinking of how other people (artists of the past and previous students) have solved the aesthetics side of the project before they tackled the technical side. Of course a little quiz too to encourage them into actually looking at it

Some things I want to do…

> Starting here http://www.youtube.com/googleartproject  I love this site just to wander around in but it certainly can be educational. I think I can make slide shows from it and have students do the same

> So, I thought I would look up other virtual museums already built. Some are simple click and go websites -- http://www.photographymuseum.com/guide.html. Some attempt a pseudo spin and zoom in that format -- http://www.villa-rustica.de/tour/toure.html 

 > Then I found this -- http://www2.gsu.edu/~artwgg/atmos.htm -- he uses a 3-d viewer -- to virtualize ancient sites. There you can spin and zoom (no learning curve, I like that.) Wow, with something like this you, with a set of written instructions, could have the student spin and zoom on their own to find a feature then answer a question about it before moving on to the next object or room.

> And this, to make a virtual museum in PowerPoint: download the grand entry PPT template from here: http://christykeeler.com/EducationalVirtualMuseums.html and then watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORut3s7osus&feature=related. Or go here: http://www.classhelp.info/virtualmuseum.htm

> Then, after a cup of Earl Grey and four dates raised my flagging spirits, I downloaded the free version of the spin/zoom program from https://unity3d.com to give it a shot. Likewise Prezi. http://prezi.com/index/ a free alternate to PowerPoint. Wish me luck.