San Juan College Campus Virtual Tour

Presenter: Charles Woodall

Date: 10/21/2003

Event: CHECS Conference, Albuquerque, NM Oct. 20-22, 2003

Why have a Virtual Tour?

• To advertise our campus to distant prospective students– Academic life– Social life– Regional attractions– Facilities, services, and

opportunities available at SJC

• What does San Juan College have to offer a prospective student?

The mission of the SJC Virtual Tour

• To satisfy the goals of the traditional virtual tour, and to also consider the needs of the student body and the Four Corners community:

• Audiences to consider:– Students taking classes through the Distance

Learning (SJC Virtual Campus) program– New SJC students who want to find their way around– Currently enrolled students who want to find particular

facilities or rooms– Community members who would like to be informed

of the changes and improvements being made at SJC

The SJC Classic Virtual Tour

Components of the classic virtual tour

• Still photos• Text• Links to other site content• Good examples of this

type of tour:– Lafayette College: Easton,

Pennsylvania– Bates College: Portland,

Maine

Components of the SJC Tour

• still photos• campus maps• text descriptions• interactive Flash map of

the campus• links to SJC Intranet and

Internet content

Areas of Improvement

I. Advertise our campus better

II. Give the audience the feeling that they are on campus

III. Engage the user’s attention with multiple media formats

IV. A more sophisticated interface

V. Address the concerns of audience groups other than just distant prospective students

I. Advertise our campus

• Animated Slideshows• Photo Galleries

The feeling of being “on campus”

• Virtual Reality Panoramas

• 3D Vista Studio• Panoramas in FlashMX

Virtual Tour: Phase III

• FlashMX interface• 3d Vista Studio panoramic photos• Narration (mp3)• CAD maps (DWG file format)• Interactive maps• Flash movies

Future Goals for the SJC Virtual Tour

• Video tour w/ tour guide• Campus webcam• Complete VR tour of the campus