Presented by Donald Beetham at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island. Session #1: Enhancing Education Beyond the Classroom Experience via Visualization Technologies ORGANIZERS/MODERATORS: John Taormina,Duke University Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design PRESENTERS: Donald Beetham, Department of Art History, Rutgers University "Assisi and Padua: Worlds Apart (Virtually)" David Hill, Department of Architecture, North Carolina State University "Bringing the Past Into the Practice: Incorporating Primary Source Materials into Digital Media Education" Bryan Loar, BeecherHill, Columbus, Ohio "Augmenting Education: The Collision of Real and Virtual Worlds" Steven Tatum, Art & Architecture Library, Virginia Tech University "Traveling Light: Gathering Information and Cataloging Photographs with Mobile Devices" Endorsed by the Education Committee As educational and cultural institutions continue to develop online image collections to support the teaching of visual culture in the expanded classroom, new technologies allow movement beyond the still image to investigate and disseminate visual information from different vantage points: social, economic, political, visual. The power of digital technologies as a means to synthesize, present, and communicate large amounts of information challenges the instructor and researcher to incorporate different ways to interrogate works of art, archaeology, and architecture or develop new visual support tools. This session seeks to explore components and examples of successful collisions between past models and present possibilities for teaching and research.

1. Assisi and Padua:
Worlds Apart
(Virtually)
Donald Beetham
Visual Resources Collection
Department of Art History
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Enhancing Education Beyond the
Classroom Experience via Visualization
Technologies
April 3, 2013
http://rci.rutgers.edu/~beetham/vralinks/

2. Meeting in Second Life

3. Graduate Student Presentation, Kira Café,
Second Life – Lounge with Presentation Screen

4. Workshop Held
At the Museum
of Sacred Art
Second Life

5. Museum of
Sacred Art,
Second Life

6. Presidio and Missions of Alte California Exhibition
Looking at God through Diamonds Exhibition

7. Arena Chapel,
Open Sim

10. 1303 Reconstruction Of Arena Chapel
OpenSim

11. Interior of 1303
Reconstruction of
Arena Cvhapel in
OpenSim

12. Visual Resources
Collection
Rutgers
Two Stations
Of New
Graphics Lab

13. Baroque
Visions
Project,
OpenSim
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Spring 2013