Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips

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The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips

Resources Found on this Article
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E-Field Trips
www.efieldtrips.org
This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the Trip Journal, theVirtual Visit (a streaming video), an Ask the Expert tool, and a hosted Web chat.

Access Excellence Resource Center
www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virtual.php
This site lists a collection of mainly scienceand health-related VFTs and online labs.

Gail Lovely’s site
www.gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm
Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, “interactive environments,”
travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Here's another great site for our list. MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids
(www.meetmeatthecorner.org)
March is Youth Art Month!

Celebrate YOUTH ART MONTH with MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids.

Our child host visits with San Diego illustrator Lori Mitchell author of DIfferent Like Me and Holly Blooms's Garden from FlashLight Press. Lori talks about her life as an illustrator and her life as an artist. Links to fun websites filled with great art projects for kids.

MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids (www.meetmeatthecorner.org)
is a series of free educational video pod casts is directed at kids ages 7-12. Each three-minute episode includes links to fun websites, a list of recommended books and a Learning Corner of questions and extended activities about the topic.

Please take the time to look at the site and perhaps review it for your readers.