The ability to move from the flat, two dimensional world to an immersive, three-dimensional world is one of the advantages to incorporating QuickTime object movies into web curriculum. Object movies allow the viewer to actually experience and explore a place or thing by viewing objects in three dimensions rather than just viewing a flat, two-dimensional image.

The following site listings and links should help you to determine ways in which QuickTime VR can be a valuable educational tool in your own classroom.

Educational Uses

• North Carolina EarthKam

  http://www.ncsu.edu/earthkam/simulation/

• A Mastodon Molar from a museum.

  http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/images/boney_molar_8plane.mov

• 4.6 Billion Year old "Verona Meteorite." This meteorite was found in Verona, Mississippi, February 7, 2000, and was confirmed by Bruce Panuska of Mississippi State University. It's weight is 3.2 pounds.

  http://www.immersivephoto.com/QTVR/Verona_Meteorite/668k.html

• Brown Stoneware Bellarmine Jug. This intact jug was found in Lee County, Mississippi in 1981. The jug was brought into the area by either the English or French army officers, and dates between 1700 and 1720.

  http://www.immersivephoto.com/QTVR/Bellarmine_Jug/Jug_488k.html

• Interact with a flowering plant.

  http://www.germantownacademy.org/curtech/instruct/object/index.htm

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