Connecting Students With Culture: Utilizing 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry for Curricular and Research Immersion
When teaching cultural competency, "being there" is integral to creating an authentic and immersive environment for students to explore other cultures, languages, times, places, and even imaginations. In this session, we'll share how we connected students to other cultures through a Virtual Reality Escape Room and outline a way for you to get your own extended reality projects off the ground. We will cover useful technologies such as 3D scanning and photogrammetry, as well as how to use free and powerful software like Blender and Unity to sculpt and build these learning experiences.
Kevin Richards is an Assistant Professor of Teaching German at The Ohio State University. His primary interests are in leveraging technology in the Humanities to connect students in large general education courses, through High School outreach, and to build community in distance learning. For the past three years, he has been focusing on how virtual reality connects students to literature, history, culture, and language in the classroom, and how the metaverse will impact future education.
Chris Summers is the lab manager and developer at the Emerging Technology Studios that hosts a variety of technology for students and faculty to use and implement in their learning and instruction. Chris is a visual artist by nature with a passion to push the envelope on how we use new media tools within the creative and educational process.