3-D equipment gives school lessons an added dimension
10:57 AM CDT on Friday, September 3, 2010
Vera Johnson's fifth-graders barely noticed as visitors walked into their classroom this week. They were far too focused on the disembodied head that seemed to float in the front of the room.
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Anna Manincor, a third-grader at Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet elementary school, dons special glasses as she takes in an interactive lesson on the solar system that is presented with the help of a 3-D projection system.Suddenly a human ear, with all its innards exposed, jumped out at them.
"Whoa!"
The kids were responding to a relatively new kind of technology just starting to filter into North Texas classrooms: a 3-D projection system, coupled with interactive, computer-driven content.
In her class at Richardson ISD's Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet