Wednesday, October 26
11:35-11:55 AM
UTC
Pavillion Ballroom D

The Virtual Pompeii Project

Brief Paper ID: 14409
  1. Jeffrey Jacobson
    School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
  2. Jane Vadnal
    School of Art History, University of Pittsburgh

Abstract: A virtual reality reconstruction of the Theater District in the Roman city of Pompeii is now available at no cost for all uses in art and education, at “http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~hemef/pompeii/”. It includes supporting materials, such as a written introduction to the history of the area, a library of scanned images, and original musical and dramatic compositions. The original materials were produced for the “Pompeii Project” at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry in 1995/96. Silicon Graphics and other donors sponsored the project which showed at the DeYoung Museum in 1995. Educators may use these materials for direct instruction in Roman art, architecture and culture (show-and-tell learning design), as a resource for student projects (constructionist), as an electronic meeting place in an educational online shared community (constructivist), for a learning game or for applications in Museum education.

Presider: Kathleen Klinger, National University

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