History and Technology! - La Junta

Technology and history are the two subjects that these students are doing in a virtual world right now.  It's still in the early stages which students first thought was a silly club, but they are liking it more than they thought.  Being able to see the historical sites through a virtual world is crazy to think about, but all it takes is for someone to take a tour of a site themselves and put it online. In a couple of years the immersive education program will be finished.

The students in the school seem to be enjoying the program.  Although it's new, and not a full course load quite yet, they see the class as a game.  They use minecraft which I am not too familiar with, but is a program that I've heard used before.  I think having other schools involved with immersive education is great, and maybe schools will work together in the future through virtual worlds.

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc