Virtual Mummy is a web site, which allows viewers to unwrap a virtual mummy. Viewers can select from Procedure, Reconstruction, or Quicktime Movies.
Type of Material:
Simulation
Technical Requirements:
Video should be changed to Quicktime format video.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This module appears to be aimed at showing off the particularly interesting use of medical imaging technology used by researchers. The module's educational goals are to provide students who are familiar with mummification with a highly graphic representation of a mummified body and wrappings, which can be manipulated through a set of advanced QuickTime movies.
Target Student Population:
College or advanced High School courses.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
This module is useful for students who have already undergone some type of learning units, which explain: (1)the social context of mummification, and (2)some elements of archaeological theory.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
This site is a tool for understanding modern archaeological processes and the layering of mummification. There is no context provided. If the dating were correct it would correspond to Ptolemaic Egypt for the mummy in question.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
This site is a very useful tool for students of Egyptian archaeology in a very narrow sense. It is not for history students in a world history survey or an African history survey class.
Concerns:
You never really learn why things are done the way they are done. However, the specific layers and ornaments, which are part of the mummification process, are explained both in ritual and logistical terms. User must understand the module's limitations.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The module is a "cool" use of technology. The Quicktime movies are well done and easily manipulated.
Concerns:
It was necessary to restart the downloading twice for Quicktime movies.
Creative Commons:
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