During my senior year at the University of Idaho I had the opportunity to work all year closely with a group of 5 other VTD classmates and a professor on a project called EduTainment. 

We worked closely in conjunction with a professor in the history department to create various virtual environments to ehance pre-exhisting ciricullum for students in History 111. These environments emmerse students into the time periods that they are studying, giving them the opportunity to see various landmarks and talk to historical figures.

 

This was the second part to the civil war project that we worked on. After the students spent time in the two different environments that were all transported to the Capitol building where they then debate the opposing sides of why the civil war happened. 

 

I was in charge of the environmental design for this level. Having to keep in mind the flow of the students and making it historically accurate for the time period.