25
Backers
$1,490
pledged of $7,600 goal
0
seconds to go
Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on August 25, 2010.
Funding period
Jul 1, 2010 -
Aug 25, 2010
- First created · 1 backed
- Jeff Mummert 218 friends
- Website: historyteachersattic.com
Pledge $5 or more
1 backer
Lieutenant: Listing of your name, or a "secret name" on our "Order of Battle," posted online at our blog. Are you a Yank or a Reb? Infantry, cavalry, or artillery? Let us know, we're keeping a running total for bragging rights.. Check our daily updates on our Kickstarter blog..
Pledge $10 or more
3 backers
Captain: + (in addition to the above) We'll announce your generosity on Twitter and Facebook, as well as your admirable commission as Captain.. You're in grand company- think of Captains Pearce, Honeycutt, and Crunch!
Pledge $20 or more
8 backers
Major: + We will handcraft a handsome web badge for you to proudly display on your blog, Facebook page, email, fine china, etc.
Pledge $40 or more
2 backers
Lieutenant Colonel: You're better than a Major! You're obviously all about rank, we appreciate your support!
Pledge $60 or more
3 backers
Colonel: + As a gift for your appointment to "full bird," we'll offer you your choice of one of our delightfully cheeky history/tech geek t-shirts (check our blog posts for a peek at the designs)
Pledge $100 or more
3 backers
General: + A customized postcard announcing your commission. And, of course, a prominent listing in our "Order of Battle." Don't forget to choose your own staff, your horse, and your quirky Civil War facial hair.
Pledge $300 or more
0 backers
Major General: + An extra t-shirt, your choice of design. You'll also have the highest military rank in our "Order of Battle"- an impressive conversation starter!
Pledge $500 or more
1 backer
President: + We'll list you as a Partner on our website and publications, offer you around the clock Secret Service protection (just kiddin') and vote for you in 2012.
Creator Robin Ashford on August 5, 2010
My blog post on this project:
http://librarianbydesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/educational-augmented-reality-project.html…
We need more innovative educators like those of you involved here. Educators who are willing to think and act on their ideas.
The investment required here is small with the potential for great gain (even if everything didn't work as planned, the learning acquired would move future projects like this forward). It would be a shame if this isn't funded.
Creator Melanie Wiscount on August 4, 2010
We are fortunate to live in an area rich with history. Up to the 20th century, textbooks, historians, & maps gave us the resources to gain knowledge & understanding. But in the 21st century, we look for new "personal" ways to learn. The combination of interactivity, 3D visuals, audio, and tracking provide the opportunity for us to "go back in history" as learning moves forward with technology.
The Civil War Augmented Reality Project is a futuristic way to learn about past happenings of the Civil War. It fuses virtual reality with the real world. Through this immersion into a virtual environment, adults and children actively learn about an important time in American History. And, with that enhanced learning comes a "new" understanding, creating a different kind of appreciation of where we came from, and a curiosity of where we are headed in the future.
Augmented reality learning may be new to most of us now, but in years to come, it will be the educational norm.
Another reason why I am a supporter of this project? I have worked with two of the three creators and they are a true examples of 21st century classroom teachers. The Civil War Augmented Reality Project is educational technology at its finest.
Creator Trish Mummert on August 3, 2010
As much as I love numbers, I could never figure out how memorizing dates would ever matter in my life. Forget about trying to remember names and places to go with those dates. History was nothing more to me than something I had to suffer through to get a degree. However, I will always remember that Jenny Wade was the only civilian killed at the battle of Gettysburg. I can remember this because I toured her house. I saw the bullet hole where the shot came through and killed her while she kneaded bread in her kitchen, and while I haven't toured the Jenny Wade house in a few decades, I still remember that information. THAT is education, and that's what excites me about this project. It's a way to give digestable information to historically-challenged brains like mine!
Creator David Solon on August 3, 2010
I'm jealous of this project as I've been contemplating doing something with VR on our battlefields for a few years now. Well, Jeff, Art and Jay are actually DOING it!! We have some of the greatest United States history right here in our backyards - it's time to crank it up a notch and really utilize technology for learning on a truly interactive platform. I see this as just the start of the things that may come. As technology grows and improves, I have no doubt that this be an incredible learning experience, not just for our kids, but for the nation - and I want to be a part of it! I hope you will too!
Creator Chuck Lyons on August 3, 2010
I support this project because without these new ways of educating our children history is at risk of being lost. Today children are so tech savy and thats the way they learn. To keep them interested long enough to take the lesson in we have to use mediums that excite and get them to want to learn. The days of mimeo graph an over head projectors are gone. This type of technology will keep history alive for today and tommorows students. So please give what you can to this very worthwhile project so that this important part of our history is not lost on the students of the future.
Creator James Gates on August 3, 2010
Y' know, every once in a while something comes along and you think, "Of COURSE! Why didn't *I* think of that?" This is one of those projects. The only criticism of it could be that it's ahead of its time. Of course, it's really not. This is the perfect time to use the technology to give battlefield visitors an augmented view - an historical view - on their own terms. This is a great idea. I hope you can get this off the ground. It makes 100% perfect sense - and it's exciting.
Good luck.
Creator Robert Slecak on July 9, 2010
What an exceptional way to gain the interest of the old as well as the young in such an important piece of history! This was just the next logical step. I wish you well!
Creator J. Chris Young on July 8, 2010
I hope this project will proceed for education purposes and to show how bad the fighting was during the battles. I also hope this project can be iniated before the hundred and fiftieth anniversary begins. The Federal Park Service is gearing up for this celebration. Hope to see you at or participating in this anniversary.
Creator Patrick Clay on July 7, 2010
I believe this sounds like a great project. I really hope this project will help generate more interest in US History.
Creator Kristin Myers on July 4, 2010
As an educator, I think this is a really innovative way to reach the students. Lord knows I could have used this to make me care more about local history!!!