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- From: aw1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Andrew Wargo)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: INFO?: Using VR to interest students in science and math
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 17:05:27 GMT
- Organization: Mississippi State University
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- In article <1jg8nnINNb08@shelley.u.washington.edu> dyer1@llnl.gov (Kathleen M. D
- yer) writes:
- >
- >
- >held each year in the East Bay (San Francisco) area. It is aimed at
- >junior and senior high school girls. Dozens of talks and seminars are
- >offered by people who work in many different fields. The only common
- >demoninator in the topics is the need for science and math.
- >
- >
- > ~ computers are fun.
- > ~ computers are useful.
- > ~ computers are everywhere.
- > ~ people (and especially women) who like to use computers are
- > not necessarily geeks.
- >
- >Because of the time constraints, we usually pick some area that
- >involves graphics, with the intent of capturing their interest
- >quickly. Two years ago, it was scientific visulaization. Last year,
- >it was Mandelbrot sets. This year, we would like to do something with
- >virtual reality (or artificial reality, etc.)
- virtual reality..
-
- isn't that interesting..I'm an international relations major, and out Head
- of the Computing Center has given me the on again/off again project of studying
- and adapting VR for classroom/teaching enhancement...Please, email me your
- suggestions, ideas, etc. as well as anything you may find especially useful in
- our attempts.
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