2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: A web-based 3D view of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Visit 3DWebWorldz in your browser.

A web-based 3D view of the
Virginia Museum of Natural History
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A Virginia high school teacher builds a digital  museum for one of his classes.  Other  schools could use it, too. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

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• Use a Chromebook or almost anything that runs a browser.
• Virginia Museum of Natural History
• Museums on your lap. Going places in your laptop.  An online presence extends the reach of a museum and gives new meaning to the idea of a field trip.

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Why not just a flat web page?

• That works for one person.  
• But for social learning, you want people to get together.
• In a 3D place, you can have a field trip.
• Groups can work together on projects.  
• They can talk over how to develop the project.  
• In groups, they don't just learn the facts. 
• They learn to think about the facts.

Could you have audio descriptions? 

• It is a web page.  Any web page can play an audio file.  
• Audio descriptions are needed for accessibility. 
• The development of audio docent files might be suited for project-based learning.

How does it compare to the usual field trip to the museum?

• No travel cost.
• No travel time.
• A class could go there repeatedly.

Could it support active learning and assessment?

• Active learning 
• Formative assessment 
• It can certainly ask questions and record responses.
• If the answers can be evaluated by computer, the place can give feedback to each student.
• In any case, the place can deliver the results to the teacher.  
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• The museum might make its own lesson plans.
• The lesson plans would be age appropriate and specific to learning objectives.
• Teachers could use these web materials for a unit of instruction.    

Can it use 3D objects instead of pictures?

• Yes, if the museum has 3D versions in suitable digital format.
• The best format is glTF.
• Convert to glTF. 
• Convert 3D models to GLTF

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