EdTech

What is this new educational technology and how does it work?

A new technology is a "virtual field trip". It is taking a guided tour online by going to different interactive web pages and videos.

A virtual field trip works by multiple webpages being conncected on 1 website. The virtual field trip is just like a regular field trip, the virtual field trip works by placing thematically based web pages into a single viewing. You can click on any webpage to view a different part of the country or place you are exploring.

This helps us in 2 core classes by giving us a chance to visit other countries while in the safety of out own classroom, While at the same time saving us thousands of dollars of our money from funding and days to weeks of our time. In this economy our school can not afford to go on expensive field trips out of the state or country. With a virtual field trip you can do this at little or no cost at all. All of these reasons are why a virtual field trip would help us in two of our core classes. This could be used in 2 of our core classes because in science we learn about the climate and atmosphere of different country's and the earth. The virtual field trip makes this possible. In geography, We learn about the physical features of certain countries and states. The virtual field trip makes this possible.

Virtual Field Trip Websites: http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/

Sources: Google.com, Wikipedia.org