virtual worlds for history john bonnett mcmaster university november 8, 2012
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Virtual Worlds for History
John BonnettMcMaster UniversityNovember 8, 2012
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Why am I – a Historian -- doing this?….
• Being a Grad Student in the 1990s
• The Topographic Revolution
•These instruments will have a bearing on how we express, analyze and teach content
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Pedagogy
•Different Expressive Forms have Different Capacities
•The Gershwin School of Historiography
•The Fundamental Relationship between Model and Referent
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Pedagogy
•The 3D Virtual Building
•One, provides more opportunities for students to reconstruct the past themselves – deepen understanding nature of historical reconstructions via
•Source translation
•Model construction
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Pedagogy
•Two, use visual forms of representation, and limit them to three…
Photographs
Fire Insurance Maps
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Pedagogy
•Three, provide a concrete referent as opposed to an abstract historical process – use buildings
•Through these measures, it is possible to:
•Visually demonstrate challenges historians face when reconstructing the past
•Visually demonstrate that historical models cannot be identified with historical objects
•There are always things historians will get wrong
•There are always things that they will not know
James Hope, Stationer, Ottawa, 1878
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Pedagogy
•Insights become clear as students go through process of translating information from sources into numeric information prior to model construction
•With maps, process of translation effected through
•Observation
•Direct Measurement
•Inference from Two or More Sources
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Pedagogy
•Insights become clear as students go through process of translating information from sources into numeric information prior to model construction
•With maps, process of translation effected through
•Observation
•Direct Measurement
•Inference from Two or More Sources
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Pedagogy
•Insights become clear as students go through process of translating information from sources into numeric information prior to model construction
•With maps, process of translation effected through
•Observation
•Direct Measurement
•Inference from Two or More Sources
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Pedagogy
•With photographs, students isolate a façade of Interestwith photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, and then:
•Distort It
•Determine Scale for x and y axes
•Determine coordinates of objects
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Pedagogy
•With photographs, students isolate a façade of Interestwith photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, and then:
•Distort It
•Determine Scale for x and y axes
•Determine coordinates of objects
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Pedagogy
•With photographs, students isolate a façade of Interestwith photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, and then:
•Distort It
•Determine Scale for x and y axes
•Determine coordinates of objects
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Pedagogy
•With photographs, students isolate a façade of Interestwith photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, and then:
•Distort It
•Determine Scale for x and y axes
•Determine coordinates of objects
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Pedagogy
•During process of translation, the project visually demonstrates five characteristics of primary sources
•Characteristics that mediate and obscure the past
•Characteristics that reveal challenges associated with historical reconstruction
•First Characteristic – Evidence is subject to misinterpretation
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Pedagogy
•Second Characteristic – Evidence is incomplete
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Pedagogy
•Third Characteristic – Evidence is absent altogether
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Pedagogy
•Fourth Characteristic – Evidence can be interpolated
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Pedagogy
•Fourth Characteristic – Evidence can be interpolated
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Pedagogy
•Fifth Lesson – Students learn historians make guesses, that historical works mediated works
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Google Earth
G.I.S.
Virtual World
ABS
HPC
In Brief, In Prospect, New Platforms for History