New timelines. Beginner's Challenge - Photo Collage by prof.cristi. Cultural Institute. 20 Wonderful Online Museums and Sites for Virtual Field Trips to Use in Class. January 27, 2014 Yesterday when I was working on the list of iPad apps that teachers can use with their students to make virtual field trips, it dawned on me to compile another list of web based platforms for both online museums and virtual field sites that can be used with students in class.
After scouring the web for hours I finally landed on the selection below. Have a look and as always share with your students and colleagues. 1- National Portrait Gallery The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story. 2- Smithsonian Museums The Smithsonian Institution—the world’s largest museum and research complex—includes 19 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park. 3- The Field Museum 5- The British Museum. 5 Interesting Virtual Museums and Activities for Students. As field trip budgets are increasingly trimmed at schools everywhere, teachers will need to find some alternative virtual activities for students.
Here are five museums that offer excellent virtual tours and activities for students. The Vatican Museums website hosts a fairly detailed virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. The tour allows visitors to zoom in on small areas and details of the interior of the Sistine Chapel. Visitors to the virtual tour can turn 360 degrees to view the interior of the Sistine Chapel from various angles. In addition to the tour of the Sistine Chapel the Vatican Museums host virtual tours of five other places and exhibits. The European Virtual Museum is the product of collaboration between twenty-seven European museums.
3 Steps to Creating an Awesome Virtual Museum in Class. You're spending an afternoon browsing the exhibits at an art museum.
If you're anything like me, you'd probably appreciate the art a lot more if you could bring someone along that could explain the history and nuances of the pieces on display. Now imagine pointing a device at the painting and seeing it morph into a dynamic video giving you all the information you wanted about the art. Welcome to augmented reality. Virtual reality replaces the real world with an artificial, digital environment. In contrast, augmented reality alters your view of the real world by layering it with associated digital information. The Virtual Museum I've worked with teachers at several schools to created virtual museums - student created exhibits that use augmented reality to display student videos when a device is pointed at an exhibit. We used a popular augmented reality app called Aurasma. Visitors were sent an email asking them to download the free Aurasma app and bring their device.
A. B. C. Educational Virtual Museums Developed Using PowerPoint. During ISTE 2010, I had the privilege of learning about a new method of using non-linear PowerPoint.
Michelle Lynn of Fox Creek Elementary in Highlands Ranch, Colorado along with Jessie Bertman, Kim Eikenberg, Lindsey Moore, Katie Patterson, Angel Wolf, and their students presented a poster titled "Interactive Primary Lesson or Non-linear Moon Phase PowerPoint. " Their students combined a graphic of moon phases with the non-linear technique to create a project that demonstrated their understanding of their science content. You can see some examples of their student work at After viewing their presentation, I realized their were many other ways to use the platform to teach or reinforce cross-curricular content.
Of course, many have seen the techniques used to make game boards in the past, but here are some other ideas I hadn't seen before. 7 Wonders Panoramas - The New 7 Wonders -Travel Great Wall, Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu - 360 degree Panoramas. Online Tours. Go to content Go to navigation Go to search Change language Accessibility Support the Louvre.
Virtual Tour: Panoramic Images: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Homepage. Zeitgeist 2013. Pixelsorter. @pixelsorter is a Twitter bot written in Ruby heavily utilizing EVA-01/pxlsrt and mispy/twitter_ebooks.
It sorts the rows (or optionally columns) of an image according to a specific method like hue, red, brightness, luma, etc. Simply attach an image to your tweet (links to images currently not supported) and mention @pixelsorter. @pixelsorter will respond with an image that has been processed using one of a numer of random presets. Presets There are a number of presets available. If you do not specify a preset[] nor cmd[] when giving an image to @pixelsorter, a random preset will be chosen along with a slight "shaking" of the parameter values, making sure that random results you get are not identical/boring.
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