| HD-51283-11 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | University of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Journey Beyond the Fair | 5/1/2011 - 4/30/2014 | $49,715.00 | Lori | C. | Walters | | | | University of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Orlando | FL | 32816-8005 | USA | 2011 | U.S. History | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 49715 | 0 | 49615.49 | 0 | Development of a mobile application that connects museum visitors, students, and the public to the NEH-funded Journey To the Fair project about the history of the 1964-65 World's Fair.
Journey Beyond the Fair will combine a vast virtual world environment and hand-held devices to develop a tightly coupled home-school-museum paradigm that enhances traditional exhibits. This paradigm is designed to work as a national model where informal humanities education institutions can add depth of learning and heighten the level of interactivity and personalization of an onsite experience by strengthening the connections to a home/school-based virtual world experience. While in this instance we are addressing the 1964/65 New York World's Fair, institutions can adapt the concept based on subjects pertinent to their facility, culture and demographic visitation needs. |