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Virtual Field Trips

Virtual Field Trips. Expanding Your Students’ World with a Few Clicks Susie Highley Creston Middle School shighley@warren.k12.in.us. BTW. What IS a virtual field trip? -looking at pictures? -viewing something live? -viewing the results of a past event? -interacting with a site?

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Virtual Field Trips

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  1. Virtual Field Trips Expanding Your Students’ World with a Few Clicks Susie Highley Creston Middle School shighley@warren.k12.in.us

  2. BTW • What IS a virtual field trip? -looking at pictures? -viewing something live? -viewing the results of a past event? -interacting with a site? -videoconferencing?

  3. An Early Example: • How about the Itidarod? Although some things are available to paid “insiders”, there are some things available to everyone, some available with free registration. http://www.iditarod.com/

  4. How have VFT’s changed? • There’s more available than ever for free. The more interactive ones (videoconferencing) are the ones that often have a cost attached.

  5. Megasites for VFT • My favorite: http://gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm because it breaks things down into neat categories.

  6. Finding the right VFT • It could be as simple as searching for ‘Inca +virtual field trip’ I’ve discovered that there are virtual field trips for virtually everything!

  7. Virtual Field Trips Can Be Big $$$ • Prime example: http://www.campustours.com/

  8. Complement Your Curriculum • Example: A class reading the book Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine used this VFT to a tenement. http://www.tenement.org/index_virtual.html Author Visits (one of these was today!) http://www.bsu.edu/myvisit/ Google LitTrips http://www.googlelittrips.org/

  9. Add to the fun… • A SMART board or Promethean board can add to the effect. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/khufudesclo.html

  10. What do students like? • When faced with many choices and opportunities, this is what my students like: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html And http://maps.google.com/maps

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