Cyberhologram Project Description:

Students create an original 3-d cyberhologram.

A cyberhologram is an image that will look 3-d when viewed with Chromadepth 3-d glasses. Students will use a wireframe background, their own photographs, and chosen clip art images in their cyberhologram project.

There are two 90 minute visits to the Technitorium experience. As the partner pairs enter the truck, their pictures are taken with a movie camera. Then they sit on lines that match the color of their name tags for further explanations and presentations.

In the first visit, students see examples of cyberholograms and view a PowerPoint introduction to the project. They also participate at four learning stations where they interact with computers as they learn about and plan their own project.

Red Station:  This is where the classroom teacher primarily helps students fill out a plan sheet. After viewing a presentation about how themes, clip art, photographs can be worked into the project, they select the wire frame and clip art they want to use in their project.

Yellow Station: At this station, students view a presentation that presents the many transformation tools they will want to use for their project. Then they have time to practice those techniques using templates and worksheets.

Blue Station:  This station demonstrates how colors are chosen and added to designs as well as how objects are moved around on the screen. Emphasis is placed upon overlapping, using warm colors in front and working toward cool colors in the background for showing depth with the special 3-d glasses. A presentation is viewed and worksheets are used for practice

Green Station: Depth is the primary focus here. After an informative presentation is viewed, students are asked to color a scene (photo) to look 3-d using the colors properly and scale and copy and paste shapes on practice pages. Several methods of creating depth are discussed and used.

After all four stations are done, student convene as a whole group and are given some motivation for continuing to plan their project by looking at our website, try their hand at a provided practice exercise and talk to their partner about he project.

When the class returns for the Week 2 visit, they are shown another motivating presentation showing all parts of the project; how to change sizes to create depth, how to use color for creating depth, overlapping, and using high and low placement. Then the partner pairs are seated at the laptop computers as the project begins.

First, students are shown how to access their wire frame (following the plan sheet) and properly save the project with their names as the document title. Then they are shown how to add their photo (taken last week) to the document. A quick demonstration of erasing the background and separating the people in the photo is shown and time is given for students to accomplish it.

Another demonstration is shown on colorizing the people, transforming them, and moving them to the wireframe. Attention is given to color use and scale by percent to add depth to the composition.

When the people are done, clip art is added to the project. Students follow their plan sheet, copy and paste each clip art object to their, colorize it, and add them to the project. The last ten minutes is used to print the projects and view a last presentation that explains safety considerations for the 3-d glasses as well as some other uses for the them and where more 3-d images might be found in the environment.

After all the cyberholograms are collected at a school, thirty of the best ones are put online and the principal is encouraged to tell the intermediate teachers when they are available for viewing.