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ave you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down and talk to Albert Einstein, George Washington, or Susan B. Anthony?  Wonder no more, with Virsona, your students have the opportunity to do just that!   Virsona is an interesting tool that lets students create a virtual character of themselves (or a virtual literary character).  Students answer a variety of questions about themselves (or another character).  They can create automatically generated responses, greetings, and choose a personality for their virtual selves.  After they have created their virtual persona, they can share the link to their virtual self.  Anyone can ask their virtual self questions (via chat) and responses are automatically generated based on the answers that were given.  Virsona has some excellent built in historical, political, and literary characters that students can interact with..  Students can chat with a virtual George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Pocahontas, Babe Ruth, Susan B. Anthony, and more.  Students choose the persona to chat with, asking them questions about their stance on politics, entertainment, beliefs, and more.  It is very cool!  Try chatting with Abraham Lincoln here.

Think U Know Cyber Cafe is a virtual environment where students can practice their online safety smarts. In the cafe, students will help virtual kids make good choices when using email, texting, instant messaging, web browsing, creating an online personal space, and chatting in a chat room. Students are guided through a variety of scenarios where they must help the virtual kids make the right decisions about using the Internet.

Art, architecture and humanities teachers can take their classes on a virtual tour of the Vatican and its collections of art. Includes interactive virtual views of rooms, zoomable artworks, photographs, and descriptions.

The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.

This Edutopia article discusses using virtual field trips in the classroom and gives links to Web resources related to virtual field trips.

This site lists a colelction of mainly science and health-related virtual field trips and online labs.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

Created by an expert tutor and a designer, Virtual Nerd gives students a new option to turn to when they need help. For a fraction of the cost of private tutoring, students gain access to hundreds of interactive step-by-step video tutorials that match up with the practice problems in their textbook. Virtual Nerd's patent-pending e-Learning system anticipates students' questions, so they can easily drill down to related tutorials if they get confused. The innovative design makes it easy for students to stay focused. Plus, unique reporting features mean parents and teachers can stay involved with students' progress.

Install a browser plugin and run applications virtually right in your browser!

Providing virtual tour and photography in Toronto. Oakville, Brampton, Mississauga, Vaughan, Richmond Hill. Providing HD video tour and photography.

Interactive volcano site dedicated to the exploration and study of the Earth's tectonic plates. Build your own virtual volcano and watch it erupt! Learn about the Earth's layers, the Ring of Fire, the areas of the world where volcanoes most often are found, and what happens inside a volcano.

This wiki provides a list of resources to use during instruction to take down the four walls of your classroom, and travel virtually!

downloadable virtual tour of cell with textbook information to accompany

The Largest Virtual College Fair * Meet hundreds of Colleges Live & Pick the Perfect U * Get Admissions Questions Answered in Real Time * Hear Expert Advice on Test Prep, Application Essays * Discover New Ways to Pay for College * Video Chat With Students on 75+ College Campuses

Build yourself an augmented reality library. Yum.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

This site allows you to make a "box" of a person, event, historical period, etc. by uploading documents and building the space.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Directory of Verizon-sponsored virtual field trips.

Interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives.

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Technologies to Watch section.