http://surfaquarium.com/IT/vftguide.htm
The article gives guidelines to plan a great virtual fieldtrip that provides new learning experience to your students. It requires just as much careful planning, structure and supervision as a traditional fieldtrip and has to be included within your existing curriculum. The article includes a nice list of useful ideas of how to prepare your students and your classroom as well as highlights common mistakes made when planning a virtual field trip.
Technical revolution has brought us new possibilities in education. Virtual field trip is a structured online experience. A great model of a teaching strategy that was not possible before the advent of computers. It benefits students, teachers, families, schools and communities.
I believe that teachers are lifelong learners and virtual fieldtrips open new possibilities to both teaching and learning. It provides information about areas that students are unable to visit as a class and helps them to appreciate cultures other than their own. It is very important to make the experience interesting to raise it above the everyday classroom learning routine. The list includes great ideas to do that, like create treasure hunt checklist.
Further research would be interesting on combining media to simulate real-life environments and experiences to practice skills that would be too expensive, difficult or dangerous to practice in real life.
About Me
- Babett Kiss Koncz
- I truly believe that teaching is what I was born to do. I love getting to know the children and I especially love having siblings come up and watching the family grow. It is a real privilege to be part of people’s lives like that. I love to inspire to keep learning, and help my students discover their own questions.
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I believe that technology has brought us possibilities in education, however, we cant let new techologies such as virtual field trips, completley rid students of actual hands on field trips. They are a good thing to have to supplement the cirriculum that you already have as well as field trips that you may already be going on.
Nice article. I think it is cool that there teaching younger students how to blog, because now days it very important for everyone to learn how to to use these tools.
Your post was very informative! Even after writing my blog I was confused on how Wikis worked. Your outline was also interesting! I enjoyed how you wrote about how you can use Wikis in the classroom and many other ways! They are a good tool to use as a study material, group work, and a great way for students to be creative!Technology is making so many intersting ways for teachers, students and parents to communicate. Futue research can benefit wikis by introducing it into the classroom more and making it known more in school around the United States!Your article was very informative and very well written!
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