This workshop introduces Frame VR as a free to use 3D/VR environment that can be used to think about cultural heritage and public history applications. The workshop will cover how to get started with Frame VR and models pedagogical exercises one may use in a classroom environment. We will also discuss other 3D/VR tools available to humanities practitioners and what the threshhold for using each might be. Participants are encouraged to come to the workshop with ideas for curating mini-museums and exhibits with their students.
Jessica C. Linker, PhD is Assistant Professor of history of early America and digital scholar at Northeastern University. She is working on a book project that examines how women practiced science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the various social and cultural trends that contemporaneously or retroactively obscured their labor. She is also interested in the ways virtual and augmented reality can be used in historical teaching and research. Her research has been supported by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, and the New York Public Library. She additionally co-directs Northeastern’s Huskiana Press, an experiential letterpress studio.
Liam MacLean is a PhD candidate in History and the Digital Humanities. at Northeastern University. He holds a BA in Journalism from Boston University in and an MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London. His research focuses on the labor movement's response to neoliberalization and privatization in Germany during the 1990s. He also specializes in 3D/VR technologies and how they can be used in an academic context.
