3.+Virtual+Field+Trips

· Chris Mahar- Field Trip · [|www.careusa.org/vft/kosovo] · A virtual field trip I think is a great alternative for students and parents who do not want to spend the money and time going on an actual field trip. I think that this website was a good example of a virtual website because it takes you to a war ravaged place and obviously that would never be a safe place to take anyone to. The site provides plenty of information of what is being done and who exactly is helping. It talks about how Kosovo is the second highest mined place in the entire world and gives a lot of great pictures of the damage done. I think that this would be a great current issue presentation topic to use also in the right context.
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Crystal Hurtado- Beijing = [] = = If teachers want their students to get a tour and learn about history, language, and culture from different countries they can go to this website to get some ideas. They can go to this website and learn about the culture, language, history of China. This website will give the students a good experience about culture. I think that teachers and students can have fun exploring this website. Instead, of having a boring lesson about the history or famous places in China. They can go to this website and have a tour of China. = Alex Roberts Hibernation [] This virtual fieldtrip describes how a bear hibernates; it is a virtual fieldtrip for preschool age children. This virtual fieldtrip is great for learning about animals, and what goes on in the wilderness. I think this is a very good virtual fieldtrip because it involves songs, and dances and would keep the children interested, it is interesting as well as exciting and educational. It also involves group time which allows the kids to interact with each other which is a big part of preschool, because during preschool kids learn about friendship and how to interact and learn about socializing with each other.

Eric Greiner – Field Trip [] I thought that this was a very cool resource, but it was somewhat limited. This was a government made site and it has some virtual field trips that were very cool. It had trips to the park, library, and city hall which are really neat trips for young elementary school students. The trips facts with each new place in the adventure and it looked like it would be fun and interesting to younger students. The only thing that was a disappointment was that there were only those three trips on this link, but nonetheless I am sure that this link could still be really helpful on showing kids what places in their community look like and what they can expect to find there.

Jagdeep Kang- Gail lovely This website allows teachers to search through a variety of virtual field trips. The website has a collection of resources that would be useful to teachers as it allows to choose the specific type of field trip that they desire. For example there are field trips available that give read along visits. Also something that it interesting about this website is that there are live journeys available. []

Marissa Green-National Geographic-Salem Hunt Witch Trails [] The virtual field trip was very interesting. I watch the Salem witch trials.I learned new facts and got to experience what it was like in those times. It was sort of like a game. I entered the tour as a resident in New Salem during the witch trials. They had you choose some of your decisions and had you sit through the trials. I got to see how the court system was back then and the names of some important people that started and were involved in the “witch craft” accusations. This site is wonderful for kids or parents to get the full experience of a certain time period or event.

Daniel Schwartz- ibiblio

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 * This virtual field trip talks about and documents various exhibits of what are known as the Dead Sea scrolls. This is a effective resource for helping children understand why these old documents are so important and further more, why every conspiracy novel refers to them. I also believe this is an effective virtual field trip because the information is broken down into very small segments, no more than a paragraph or two at a time. This in my opinion keeps the overall importance of these documents from getting diluted with a bunch of jargon and rhetoric that is not necessarily pertinent to this subject.

Tori Fraher- Aquifer Virtual Field Trip [] This is an actual virtual field trip, what is nice though for the teachers are that they have printable permission slips that can be given to the students to get signed. One this website it give the teacher some objectives, topics that are covered, some terms that should probably be learned before they take it, etc. It also says it is designed for elementary level, but can be adjusted to any age group. It is mostly about water and how we get it and other across the country get it, which is a perfect field trip for younger kids and they will learn how to protect this resource.

Jeffrey Bennett- Virtual Field Trips [] I thought this website was very straight forward and easy for anyone to pick up right away. It is a site that takes you to other sites such but in a more focused search. It displays all of the locations you can go to on the left which are in alphabetical order and on the right side it has the descriptions of the locations. By clicking on a location from the left side it takes you to a new website dedicated for that location only. When viewing it I clicked on the Africa field trip and it took me to a website where I actually got to see live video feed of the elephants and other animals.

Shannon Grover- Tech Trekers

[] Tech Trekers is a very useful website that gives teachers access to many different online field trips. Teachers can find something to fulfill the needs of almost every subject matter and grade level there is. The sites that teachers can go send students to for their virtual field trips are very creatively laid out. An advantage to this website is that teachers have the ability to preview their student’s field trip before it happens to be sure that it will be what they want. Unfortunately, because the website is a compilation of sites for virtual field trips, some of the sites listed are no longer in use. Many still are though, and they are a great teaching tool.

Alex Roberts Internet4classrooms [] Review- This website is a website that walks you step by step through a virtual field trip, it teaches you how to create one for your students to go on. I think this is beneficial for teachers because if teachers are going to start doing virtual field trips more often than real field trips they are going to need to know how to create one. This website walks you through step by step on how to create a virtual field trip; it gives you guidelines, and also lets you evaluate how you think the trip went after you take the trip!

Jordan Shifflett - Virtual Field Trip Guides
 * @http://www.field-guides.com/develop.htm
 * This website is great for teachers of any grade level. It ironically is a virtual field trip that teaches you how to create your very own virtual field trip. It is a walk through website that teaches you step by step how to create a virtual field trip. No more fundraising or packing cold lunches. Teachers can now take their students on field trips all the way across the world with a few clicks of a mouse. This website explains everything about a virtual field trip, how and why they are used in modern day classrooms and the benefits of using them.

Sarah Fairburn- What’s The Difference, Solar System Math and Moon Math [] This Virtual Field Trip would be very useful for fifth to eighth grade teachers because this site incorporates a little bit of science into the math and geometry lesson in this virtual field trip. The lesson shows students different ways that they can apply the math lesson to something in real life, like the solar system. On this virtual field trip, students are placed into different areas of space, for example on the moon, and they can see a 3D version on their computer of their surroundings. Then they would be asked questions about how to apply certain mathematical concepts to figure out distance, etc. Although this site will be very useful and educational for students, especially visual and hands-on learners, the time it takes to download the files in order to give this virtual field trip to students is rather long. To download a computer file will take about 17 hours, and a DVD version would take about 6-7 hours.

Kellie Yanek- Mount Zion Network Jerusalem, Israel @http://www.mznet.org/chamber/

This virtual field trip can take students to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Israel. This virtual trip gives many videos and stories of what happened to the prisoners of the concentration camps ran by Nazi’s. It will help teachers to present this horrific event to students with videos and images so that students can learn not only by hearing but seeing. And when students see what happened to these poor people and why students will feel for them and give them an idea of what it was like to be a prisoner and what they had to do to survive in a Nazi camp.

Carlyn Seeman – Diamond Head Tour @http://www.openroad.tv/index.php?categoryid=16&p25_id=206 This video shows the inside and out of the Diamond Head Volcano in Hawaii. It tells about the history of the volcano and how the U.S. army used it to hide behind and look out for enemy ships out at sea. The video is very informational and it would be much easier to watch the video of the hike and tour than taking your students to Hawaii! The tour consists of walking up to the summit, and the tour of the inside of the volcano. The man going on the tour gives great information on the volcano itself and the city that it resides in.

Kristyn McCarty-National Geographic kids [] It gives children a whole new experience when they log onto this website. They can learn about anything such as different types of people, places all around the world, country facts, and many other things that are not mentioned above. Basically when children log onto this website they can imagine that they are actually there in the country. They can get a feel for different people’s cultures and outlooks on life. They can even learn interesting facts about other countries that they would have no idea about. Other than learning about other countries, they can even learn about the different types of animals around the world. They can read about different facts and information about where they’re located and how they adapt. For example, I decided to further look into the country Botswana. It gave me information about the geography of the country, the nature, the history, the people and culture, and also the government. Not only did it go into broad detail about each of these topics, but it also gave me fast facts. I learned the official name of the country which is Republic of Botswana. Also it talked about the form of government that takes place there and the capital.

Brandon Campbell-The Teacher's Guide

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The teacher's guide is a great website for virtual field trips. There's all sorts of virtual field trips, ranging from inter-planetary trips to virtual trips to museums and exhibits. There's loads of field trips that teachers can choose from. These virtual trips range from trips to an Ancient Roman Villa to a Greek and Roman Art Collection, and even a virtual tour of the sun. There’s even a virtual tour of the Library of Congress, and a WW II Airborne Virtual Tour, called The Drop Zone. These virtual tours are great for any lesson plan, and are a plus for any teacher planning a field trip.

Chance Fink – Leonardo daVinci @http://www.tramline.com/tours/cross/leo/_tourlaunch1.htm Having virtual field trips readily available for teachers to use is a very important an convenient technological resource. One field trip that I found is of Leonardo daVince, in this field trip we explore the many aspects of his life, as well as, investigate his famous paintings, and some of his inventions. For example, we are able to view one of his inventions, which is the flying machine. We see the notes, which he scribed, and also his sketches and the actual machine. As we scroll thru the virtual field trip we are able to take a walk his gallery and admire all that he has created. This is a magnificent field trip that art students would be sure to enjoy.

Molly O’Shea – The Virtual Tour of Washington D.C. Virtual tours [] I thought that this was a good example of a virtual tour because not only does it give the students a good view of Washington D.C. and some of the monuments that are there. This would be very helpful because a lot of times people aren’t able to travel to actually see these places. This would work really well for someone that is teaching history and wants there students to be able to see historical sites. This virtual tour also gives still photos of each of the monuments and there is no sound that goes with the tour. I think that this virtual tour is great because you can teach and also be able to be on a field trip at the same.

Emily Davis- The Teacher’s Guide Virtual Fieldtrips >
 * @http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
 * This is a website that was designed by teachers for other teachers to use. The website includes lesson plans plus virtual field trips for teachers to use as a part of their lesson plan. The website also leads to other websites such as museum websites, or even the white house. On the links the websites have tours, pictures and extra information of the place that students can explore. With this website students can see the real thing and not have to look at pictures in a text book but can see the real thing. Students will be more interested because they do not have to listen to teacher talk. They can explore and learn themselves which keeps the students involved.

Brad Mandarino – Virtual Field Trips

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A virtual field trip is a great way to spark a student’s mind. This website provides a link to a virtual field trip for pretty much any subject of teaching. These virtual field trips provide motivation for students to learn more about a specific content area. Not always being able to leave the classroom can sometimes be a problem, but with virtual field trips students are able to learn outside the classroom while still actually staying in the classroom. It’s a fun and interesting way to learn and it gives the students and teachers opportunities they might not usually have.

Rachel Senior- Virtual China

@http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/virtual_china/beijing.html

This website provides links that can take a classroom to anywhere in the world. The problem with this site is it does not provide a lot of information about the places, and only includes one picture. As the teacher, one would have to be knowledgeable about the various places the classroom would visit and be prepared to supplement the virtual tour with additional background information and additional pictures. Additionally, the teacher would need to be prepared to answer all sorts of questions the classroom may have about the places they can visit. There may be a better virtual field trip website available, but it may possibly be subscription based.

CJ Stewart

Mysterious places @http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html I went on the **Chichén Itzá** tour on the mysterious places site. I found the site amazing while not providing the wealth of pictures or interactivity of some virtual field trips I found this sites superior authoring more immersive. The few pictures and author comments were enough to make me feel like I was actually there. I would use of this style of site in a class room to encourage/stimulate the imaginations of my students. I could see using this as a take home project for a class: having my students first take a virtual tour and then write a short narrative staged in the place they just visited.


 * Camille Dobbins
 * http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13844
 * The Utah international website is an awesome tool for teachers. It allows students to take field trips to places they would otherwise not be able to visit. In my particular example, students are taking a virtual field trip to speak with artists such as Monet, Kandinsky, and O' Keefe. The students will have the opportunity to learn a lot more about each artist than a teacher can present in a classroom setting. Another benefit to virtual field trips is that it allows students to escape, in a way, the normal every day classroom setting. It is a fun way to teach children about different perspectives as well as art techniques. Virtual field trips are not only used for the arts though, it is a good resource for other subjects as well. Virtual field trips can be used when the school doesn't have the funds to physically transport children to different places.