Interactive Painting at the Museum of the Cabildo

The project consists of a software which reproduces the picture painted in oil in 1909 by Pedro Subercasseaux. Those who visit the Cabildo will be able to ‘have a conversation’ with the painting by clicking on a close plasma screen TV. In this way, when clicking the mouse, you’ll be able to learn about the names and biographies of all the people who participated that day, the expenditures of the event, how they voted, what was the average age, and what was happening in Europe and in the Spanish Viceroyalties towards 1810.

This article was written by Clarín newspaper on Sunday, August 17th.

ORT Virtual Campus Website Available on the Internet

In the last weeks, there have been important advances in the development of ORT Virtual Campus project and its appropriation by the different actors of the educational community. One of the accomplishments has to do with the adoption of the Virtual Campus as the starting page in all the computers of the school, instead of the Intranet. So far, the Intranet has been the place where teaching materials were stored as a guide for practical assignments, tutorials, works carried out by students, etc.

Such implementation is very important, not only because it widens the access to these contents from any computer which has connection to the Internet, but also –and fundamentally- because it implies the creation of new spaces for production and publication of contents, and deepens the line of work initiated in the blogs, wikis, and other tools of the Web 2.0.

Articles, news, videos, links, news of the web of weblogs… Contents in various formats, combined on the site or the ‘page’ of each area, track, or project. The idea is to bring together a ‘personalized’ offer of services and teaching materials. These new spaces ‘expand’ the classroom, thus reinventing the school as a place in which the skills of the “Information Society” are developed.

We would like to invite you to navigate these sites in construction. Soon we’ll have more news. Welcome to the last version of ORT Virtual Campus!