8 November 19

I'm (still) attending the annual NCHC conference in New Orleans. Today, Mona Lisa is with me, to help demonstrate the use of virtual tours and wikis for classroom teaching. Her appearance is timely as news reports suggest that she may be taken off display at the Louvre because crowd pressure makes it impossible to view her well. By contrast, the virtual tour from the museum lets you view her "up close and personal," at full size or zoomed in for detail. Virtual tours are like Google Street View for almost any location or topic, from exploring the solar system to the history of the Roman Empire and to the microscopic details of the human inner ear.