Virtual Field Trips & Webquests
http://marynabadenhorst.globalteacher.org.au/virtual-field-trips/
Virtual Field Trips & Webquests
This page looks at Virtual Field Trips and Webquests (including online Scavenger Hunts).
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Quiksee
http://www.quiksee.com
Quiksee is a location based interactive video that lets you quickly & easily create stunning visual experiences of real world places, allowing your friends to fully explore your places in a unique virtual environment that’s just like being there.
You can show them to your friends or if you are a business, to your customers. The tours can be placed on online maps such as Google Maps and can also be inserted into your Facebook and Myspace pages. The possibilities are endless.
Unlike conventional stitched panoramic images, which require several hours to produce and potentially weeks of data processing and post-production, Quiksee Tours take just minutes to film and can be viewed almost immediately after recording online.
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Screencast Tutorial on Using VoiceThread
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/voice/index.html
Screencast Tutorial on Using VoiceThread
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VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/
VoiceThread is a free tool (in beta) that enables members to upload images, record accompanying audio commentary, and invite others to add commentary.
VoiceThreads are hosted free of charge at VoiceThread.com and can be embedded in blogs, wikis, and other types of Web sites. A VoiceThread is quick and easy to create, has plenty of space for numerous images and commentaries, and can be accessed by any Internet-enabled computer.
A VoiceThread can also be used to create a video tutorial. You can use the pen tool to draw lines and arrows on an image in real time as you are speaking.
"There are plenty of exciting educational possibilities with VoiceThread, especially in the humanities, fine arts, and foreign languages. In humanities classrooms students can analyze and comment on historically significant photographs and create virtual tours of places or events they are studying. English students can record their own poetry or short story and add evocative images. Photography and Drawing students can present their work and explain their techniques and motivations; students and teachers can then leave commentaries. Foreign language students can upload pictures from a trip and then explain their voyage in the language they are studying." (Tom Daccord)
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Virtual Field Trips
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/
Virtual Field Trips
Take OR Create a Virtual Field Trip on this site.
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Take a Field Trip without Leaving the Classroom
http://tinyurl.com/2dquud
Take a Field Trip without Leaving the Classroom ... PowerPoint
This presentation includes images and links useful for helping you establish educational videoconferencing.
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How to Create a Virtual Tour
http://tinyurl.com/g3pv8
How to Create a Virtual Tour
Welcome to this tour-within-a-tour! Here, you'll learn all the exciting ways to create, edit, enhance, and otherwise beautify and perfect your Virtual Tour. Dive in!
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Create A Virtual Fieldtrip : Toolkit
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/teacher_tips.htm
Create A Virtual Fieldtrip : Toolkit
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Virtual Field Trips : Teacher Created Material
http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
Virtual Field Trips : Teacher Created Material
Virtual Tours of Museums | Virtual Exhibitions |
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Online Field Trips (Thinkport)
http://www.thinkport.org/Classroom/trips.tp
Online Field Trips (Thinkport)
Our interactives provide rich multimedia content including interactive stories, maps, games, timelines, audio, and much more. Educators can also find primary resource documents, as well as ideas and activies for classroom use. So forget the road map, grab a mouse and begin a journey of your own!
Be sure to visit Reading tools for proven strategies and techniques to help students of all reading levels make use of our field trips.
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Scholastic : Internet Field Trips
http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/index.htm
Scholastic : Internet Field Trips
Mainly on childrens literature and writing
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Virtual Field Trip Permission Form
http://www.field-trips.org/vft/PermissionSlip.pdf
Virtual Field Trip Permission Form
In your child's classroom we are taking virtual journeys via the Internet and
World Wide Web. In keeping with the tradition of a regular field trip, we are sending home a permission slip to notify you of these virtual "excursions" so that you might engage your child in a discussion of their online journey.
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Virtual Tour : Evaluation Form
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evaltour.html
Virtual Tour : Evaluation Form
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Virtual Field Trip Guidelines
http://surfaquarium.com/IT/vftguide.htm
Virtual Field Trip Guidelines
Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) are one way the WWW is truly revolutionizing learning in the classroom. As someone who always has strived to provide meaningful experiences for my students, I love the VFT concept! Still, I have learned over time that VFTs require serious planning and consideration in order to make them a success.
Here's a set of practical guidelines based on experiences for preparing, conducting and evaluating VFTs with your students:
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Get Outta Class With Virtual Field Trips
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech071.shtml
Get Outta Class With Virtual Field Trips
You look outside the classroom window and see yet another in a long string of gloomy days. Inside the classroom, restless students seem mired in malaise. It must be time for a field trip! No money, you say, for busses or admission fees. No time for travel? Then why not a virtual field trip? The Web provides the resources; you provide the fun. Every day is a beautiful day for a virtual field trip!
Have you ever taken your students on a virtual field trip? If not, you're missing a great opportunity.
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Why take field trips?
http://www.campsilos.org/excursions/hc/fieldtrip.htm
Why take field trips .. real or virtual.
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Virtual Field Trips at i4c
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/vft.htm
Virtual Field Trips at i4c
Four decades ago one of my teachers took us on a field trip to see the plant where a children's aspirin was made. Why did we go? I am sure that I don't know. Perhaps we were being rewarded for good behavior. My point here is that before you consider a field trip, real or virtual, you should have firmly in mind what educational purpose the trip will serve. The first set of links will help you consider that portion of a field trip.
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Virtual Field Trips | over the Internet
http://www.field-trips.org/
Tramline developed TourMaker software back in 1996. Over the years TourMaker has earned a reputation as the best tool for creating Virtual Field Trips and Web Tours.
Over the years we have also developed one of the highest quality and most reliable sources of ready-to-use virtual field trips for the K-12 classroom and at-home use.
Try a FREE Trial version of TourMaker software, then buy it to create your own field trips!
Explore one of our more than 30 FREE Virtual Field Trips designed specifically for K-12.
This section of the site is dedicated to providing FREE, high-quality, virtual field trips for the K-12 classroom. These trips have received many awards, among them a USA TODAY Education award, and the National Science Teacher's Association.
antarctica | antartic | baking bread | deserts | dinosaurs | endangered species | fierce creatures | getting green | hurricanes | insects | minibeasts | oceans | rainforest |
Order the definitive book on virtual field trips.
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e-Field Trips
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/waden/events.cfm?events=3
e-Field Trips | Electronic Field Trips | Virtual Field Trip Site of "Clips and Hints" | K-12 videoconferencing events | interactive videos and learn how your students can travel the world without missing a class |
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Developing Virtual Field Trips
http://www.virtualblackboard.com/
As teachers, we know that field trips motivate and educate our kids.
We also know they are time-consuming, difficult to organize, and often affected by the weather.
In many cases, the places we would most like to visit aren't nearby or aren't open at the time we are covering them in the curriculum.
In these cases, the next best thing to a real field trip is a virtual field trip.
In fact, virtual field trips are often better because they take you places you couldn't otherwise go, for example, inside a volcano, under the ocean, or straddling a fault line.
virtual field trips |
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Virtual Field Trips
http://www.virtual-field-trips.com/
Virtual Field Trips
Save time and money. Travel without leaving your home. For school, homeschool or fun at home. It's a complete educational package with objectives, lesson plans, questions and answers, additional activities and sites to visit.
This virtual tour is done for you -- all the educational research, site navigation and step-by-step instructions will turn web browsing into a goal-oriented educational experience.
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Virtual Field Trips | Electronic Field Trips
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/Frames/BigIdeas/B1/index.html
Virtual Field Trips | Electronic Field Trips | Helpful Hints for Electronic Field Trips | VFT .. a white paper on "Why" |
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TourMaker software | VFT | Virtual Field Trips
http://www.field-guides.com/
Tramlines
Your students can use TourMaker software to create online VFTs, reports and presentations that can be shared anytime, anywhere using the most current news and information available!
Explore one of our FREE Virtual Field Trips designed specifically for K-12.
Join the FIELDTRIP Discussion List for educators devoted to the topic of Virtual Field Trips in education.
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Virtual Field Trips
http://tinyurl.com/52u4e
Virtual Field Trips list.
Adventure Online | All Along A River | Amazon Adventure | Arctica | AsiaQuest | Asia | CARE: Journey with CARE to Mali | Why do Civilizations Fall? | CyberSurfari | Explore the Estuary | Live from Antarctica | Rivers of Life | Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars | World Flight 1997 |
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Virtual Field Trips listed at Apple
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/vft.php
Virtual Field Trips listed at Apple
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Virtual Tours at Tisdale School Canada
http://digitalsask.tisdaleschooldiv.sk.ca/tour_search.php
Virtual Tours at Tisdale School Canada
e.g. |Barn Yard Animals and Visiters | Archery | Beekeeping in Saskatchewan | Canadian Symbols | Farm machinery | Farming Through The Seasons | Honduras | The Town of Bjorkdale | Winter Activities |
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Tramline : Virtual Fieldtrips Software
http://www.tramline.com/
Tramline : Virtual Fieldtrips Software
Try a FREE Trial version of TourMaker?software, then buy it to create your own field trips!
Tramline developed TourMaker?software back in 1996. The company was founded by a group of individuals dedicated to creating a tool for education and training that could be used to help to organize the chaos of the Web.
Over the years TourMaker?has earned a reputation as the best tool for creating Virtual Field Trips and Web Tours, providing a host of navigation and orientation aids absent in other field trip formats.
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Microsoft Virtual Classroom Tours
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/InTeachersVCT.aspx
Microsoft Virtual Classroom Tours
Teachers learn best from other teachers. Virtual Classroom Tours offer the resources to lead students through creative, constructivist, technology-rich projects for all grade levels and subject areas.
The tours are downloadable PowerPoint files with project background and planning information, teacher and student reflections, content-rich teaching resources, and assessment and standards information.
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