This article talks about a group of high school and college students in La Junta, who are trying to recreate Bent's Old Fort in virtual world. The reason those students try to create Bent's Old Fort is that the fort is a historic site which they felt it would be great if others can share it. By creating similar site in virtual world, everyone in this world can access this fort easily and freely.
However, it is not an easy task for high school students to do besides doing regular school work. They meet every Wednesday with a supervisor to step by step move forward in recreating the Fort in virtual world. The steps involve learning basic Architecture technology, mathematics, computer languages, and others. The students seemed like they are having a lot of fun doing this project and it shows potential ability of virtual world sharing history with others around the world.
This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc
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