Zanetis, J. (2010). The Beginner's guide to interactive virtual field trips. Learning & Leading with Technology, 37(6), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?
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"The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips" is just as it sounds, a guide to interactive virtual field trips. With budgets being cut all over the country, field trips are occurring less in schools. This article leads teachers or future teachers to websites and resources that can help them to "take" their students on field trips through the web. These web-based field trips are interactive and the main expense is something most schools already have in place, large group video conferencing. These virtual field trips can take students to most major tour spots. Museums can be accessed and other monuments as well. As well as scientific places with interactive experiments. These all have a fee but it is small in comparison to a real field trip.
How could the virtual field trips be integrated into a school?
The article said the first step would be to find the large group video conferencing software at your school and then go onto websites and do research on the different kinds of field trips. The funding is the hardest part to get but the school may agree or have money that can be used for this kind of thing in a special fund for field trips or other resources.
How could students benefit from these virtual field trips?
Students would be able to see relevant, fun, interactive places that pertain to the curriculum. Since field trips are being used less and less this will help make the material real and interactive for students. It is engaging and has tools that allow students to participate in ways that they may not have been able to otherwise.
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