New Digital Media for Learning

 Presented by

Digital Arts Consulting




The channels of communication used for the transmission of our culture can be enhanced by the variety of digital media now available. These visual media provide on-demand learning opportunities possessing a greater breadth of information and ease of access than ever before.

This presentation demonstrates how the visual images of art, architecture and art history are being used in conjunction with these new media to create interactive learning resources for school, home and the corporate workplace.

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1. 360 degree virtual reality digital photography

Hall of State

http://www.d-a-c.com/
hallofstate/index.html

--The History of Texas in Art - The murals of the Great Hall of the Six Flags - One of America's finest examples of Art Deco Architecture.

2. Integrating existing art into a graphical interface

Republic of Texas

--Mural Interface for studying Texas History with Cabeza de Vaca as a navigational item.

3. Hyper-linking interactive images and text to create on demand educational content

Humanities-Interactive

--Over fifty web exhibitions that will cover the scope of human civilization and culture in graphical presentations; from the origins of ice age art to the issues that we face in contemporary society. View digital presentations of traveling exhibitions from the Texas Humanities Resource Center.

4. Streaming media-Internet slideshows with synchronized narration.

In Search of the Golden Land

http://www.d-a-c.com/goldenland/

--One of the first streaming multimedia slideshows for the Web.

5. Art History Timeline

The Splendors of Thirty Centuries laid out graphically,
from 1000 B.C. to 2000 A.D

http://www.humanities-interactive.org/splendors/timeline.htm

--Visually compare and contrast the cultures and events of the Pre-Columbian Era, Viceregal Era, 19th Century, and 20th Century.