Download PDF. By mid-March, our daily trips to Des Moines had become a familiar routine. We would need to leave the house by 9 AM at the latest, which would give me just enough time to get the kids to school in the morning, return home, gather medical supplies and pillows, and then help Yvonne…Read more Puddleglum’s Pain
German VR Game: Project Update (10/10/19)
Digging deeper into the design of tutorial room for the German VR game at last week's team meeting, we came to the realization that we need to align the training objectives of this room more closely with the activities that a player would ultimately need to perform in the game. These actions include: (1) teleporting…Read more German VR Game: Project Update (10/10/19)
German VR Game: Project Update (10/3/2019)
It's been a while since I posted anything on my research blog. Since I'll be working this year with some Grinnell College students on a project that continues work developing a German language VR experience (see: YouTube video and GitHub repo), I thought I would use this opportunity to blog our project development. I hope…Read more German VR Game: Project Update (10/3/2019)
Innovation Fund progress report
It's been a while since I have posted anything in my blog. Moving forward, I would like to be more open with the work I am doing in developing VR experiences for the digital liberal arts. What better way to get back into the blogging saddle than to post my Innovation Fund Progress Report (End…Read more Innovation Fund progress report
Innovation Fund 2017
Last year I received a $10,000 pilot project funding from the Grinnell College Innovation Fund to explore the use of 3D/VR/AR technology to teach liberal arts topics. The grant has up to this point proven to be very successful, and I was encouraged to submit another proposal for continued funding and to broaden the scope…Read more Innovation Fund 2017
Instructional goal and supporting contexts
Cross posted: https://unclesam.sites.grinnell.edu/uncategorized/instructional-goal-and-supporting-contexts After carefully thinking about what we would like to do with the Uncle Sam Plantation simulation, the types of open educational resources that we would like to develop, and the manner in which these resources could potentially be used in a class, the dev team has come up with the following instructional goal…Read more Instructional goal and supporting contexts
Defining instructional goals in virtual reality
Cross posted: http://unclesam.sites.grinnell.edu/uncategorized/defining-instructional-goals-in-virtual-reality The Uncle Sam plantation project is beginning to gear up and, with the return of Sam Nakahira from archival research in the Louisiana State University special collections, we are presented with a mountain of archival material that needs to be assembled into a virtual reality experience. What does a receipt for $12 issued…Read more Defining instructional goals in virtual reality
