http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech071.shtml
Virtual field trips are electronic field trips you take your students on without leaving your classroom. This is a great way to have your students use computers and visuals. Like regular field trips, virtual field trips are designed to be entertaining and educational. Trips range from the simple, such as a photo tour of a famous museum, to extremely detailed and high-tech field trips that offer video and audio segments to make the visit more interactive. Virtual field trips are great to take your students anywhere it is impossible for them to go to like the planets or just to another country way far away from here. You can even take them on a virtual field trip inside the body. How cool would that be? I personally wish these were made when I was in middle school or even in high school. If you really make the virtual field trip interesting and exciting, your students will stay focused and entertained and more than likely will learn something because they actually paid attention.
Teachers can create a virtual field trip using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or a web page.
The teacher chooses various photos and videos that the students will view. After the field trip is over, the students will complete an activity or complete a quiz they will be graded on. You can find many links to different virtual field trips online if you just search it.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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I think this was a good posting. I like how you showed how virtual field trips contained some of the same qualities as a normal field trip. I agree that I wish they were more common when I was in high school and middle school. I think that it would have made school much more interesting. I think it was good that you went back and used real life experience in a blog so that people could relate to your situation. I hope virutal field trips continue to grow in classrooms. Good job.
Mike
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