Welcome to Online Fieldtrips!

1. Welcome to Online Fieldtrips! Excitement! Adventure! Learning!

2. Housekeeping • Introductions: • Facilitators: • Amy Rothenberg- Ft. Myers Middle AmyAR@leeschools.net • Lynne Coris- Staff Development-Enhancing Education Through Technology Grant lynnebc@leeschools.net • Restrooms • Break

3. Where do you want to go today? • When do you want to go today? • Who do you want to meet today? • What do you want to experience today?

4. How Does your Eye Work? Objectives: • Students will visit the Exploratorium to find out how the eye works. • Students will complete the “Anatomy of an Eye” worksheet by filling in the functions of the parts of an eye and complete a diagram with the correct eye parts. • Students will complete the virtual dissection “The Anatomy of an Eye”

5. "Technology is not just another tool for instruction; it can break down barriers of time and space that has limited the traditional classroom." -Walter McKenzie

6. ISTE NETS-Teachers All classroom teachers should be prepared to meet the following standards: 1. Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. 3. Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.

7. ISTE NETS-Teachers 5. Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.

8. Our Objectives Learners will: • Develop an understanding of what a virtual field trip really is. • Compare different types of virtual field trips. • Develop competency in evaluating virtual field trips. • Create a virtual Classroom fieldtrip and post to Blackboard.

9. What Are Virtual Fieldtrips? • A Virtual fieldtrip is a topical collection of Web sites that help students to build upon their existing understanding of a subject or concept by vicarious experience. • This location might be a

10. Advantages of Virtual Fieldtrips • Increased student learning • Ability to visit faraway places • Ability to revisit if necessary • More concrete and easier to understand • No worries about cost, transportation and/or inclement weather conditions

11. Limitations of Virtual Field Trips • Number of available computers • Readability • Requires teacher monitoring • Requires teacher preview for technology issues: version of software, connection to internet, or other network issues

12. The Virtual Field Trip Format • Task • Resources • Itinerary • Souvenirs • Project

13. Virtual Field Trip Task Short explanation of the purpose of your Virtual Field Trip. Include: • Name of the topic or destination • Questions to heighten student interest • Questions students will answer as they visit each site

14. Virtual Field Trip Resources Hotlist of the web sites students need for their trip. Include: • the web site title • URL address • a one sentence description of the site.

15. Virtual Field Trips Itinerary Outline Tour Sites: • Order to be visited • Description of what students will see • Description of what students will do at the site.

16. Virtual Field Trips Souvenirs • Artifacts you would like students to collect from each site. • Be accurate with description • Quantity of each souvenir you would like collected.

17. Virtual Field Trip Project • Teachers can extend the experience by: • Journaling places visited • Publishing travel brochure • Preparing slide show • Teachers will need step-by-step set of instructions for completing the performance task at the conclusion of the virtual field trip.

18. Ideas for Projects • Virtual Postcards: Instruct students to Copy and Paste Pictures and the URL's that go with them to a MS Word document. Students add text in "postcard" language (i.e. 'wish you were here', etc...) and send to you by printing, email, etc.. • Travel Log:  Have students record their impressions of their virtual trip in a Word document journal.

19. Ideas for Projects • Online Hide and Seek: Explain to students that important items from trip sites are "hiding" out on the Internet. Either give students the websites to "seek" the objects or (for older kids) instruct them to use the links above to "find" the object on their own. For example, you may tell students that the tomb of a famous Egyptian king is "hiding" on the web and they must "find" it from one of the links on this page, (answer at: the At the Tomb of Tutankhamen)

20. Ideas for Projects • Have students go to www.wordle.net and create a “wordle” about their virtual trip. Use vocabulary words learned on the trip or that relate to the trip. • Online Scrapbook: Invite students to create an online scrapbook collage of the images they find most interesting, or that describe a theme from a unit you are working on,  in either a Word file or PowerPoint presentation for class viewing.

21. Example- Colonial Williamsburg Objectives: • Students will visit • http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/places.cfm • View examples of architecture in Colonial Williamsburg • Identify three buildings which show good examples of symmetry in their design • Sketch an example of symmetry viewed in each building in their math notebook.

22. Example- What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? Objectives: • Students will visit • http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html • Read accounts of women’s roles in World War II • Create a list of ten interview questions they would want to ask their great grandmothers about their experience during World War II.

23. Is the Tour Better in Person • Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

24. Is the Tour Better in Person • Visit this site to take a virtual tour of Venice • http://www.italyguides.it/us/venice_italy/venice_travel.htm • This virtual tour of Canterbury, England, replicates the experience of strolling through the town. How easy or hard is it to navigate? http://www.hillside.co.uk/tour/navigation.html • Harvard University's online tour offers two options. The regular guided tour doesn't require special plug-ins. The QuickTime (QTVR) option requires a plug-in, but lets you see 360-degree panoramas. Compare these options and think about the advantages and disadvantages of the using the QTVR plug-in.http://www.news.harvard.edu/tour/main.html

25. CD and Resources • Let’s take some time to look at some resources....

26. Now Let’s Plan Your Trip!

27. Planning Your Trip • Select a trip with a clear connection to your curriculum • Preview the site and know the content • Select web sites that have enough information • Teach a preparatory lesson before the trip • Reinforce AUP by having permission slip for trip

28. Planning Your Trip • Decide model:whole class,individual, partners or small groups • Provide step-by-step tasks to accomplish • Place time limit on trip • Be tour guide - help students pace themselves

29. Chaperoning Your Trip Be responsible as a chaperone while class is online by: • Viewing all monitor screens from one vantage point • Using History folder to see where a browser has been

30. Bon Voyage! • Enjoy Your Trips!