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Virtual Field Trips | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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  • all in a day’s field trip for students in the Mt. Lebanon School District outside Pittsburgh. The middle schoolers’ adventure takes place without anyone leaving the building, using a videoconferencing
  • as museums and zoos, as well as to more exotic realms. A 2009 report suggests that about 30 percent of U.S. schools have adopted videoconferencing—up 5 percent since 2006.  
  • annieyip on 22 Jul 13
     
    This article talks about the benefits of virtual field trips. It also talks about a specific school near Pittsburgh that took a virtual field trip through videoconferencing. The students did an e-Mission to learn about earth Science.
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Videoconferencing with Elementary School Students - 0 views

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  • annieyip on 22 Jul 13
     
    A teacher writes about her successful connection with two schools from Peru and Argentina. She shares the activities that they shared together.
Katy Cooper

Students Make Their Case in Colorado | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Katy Cooper on 20 Jul 14 - Cached
  • via videoconference
  • Parents, teachers, and interested school board members were able to participate, too, because they streamed the conference live.
  • experience came about because of student initiative:
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  • tracked down the author via email and invited him to chat in real time.
  • This activity was a simulation, but to make the assignment more authentic, school board members agreed to listen to students' arguments and pose questions based on the school district's book-adoption guidelines. On his popular blog the Fischbowl, Fisch recruited more educators from outside the district to take part via videoconference.
  • Smith's class wiki gave teams an online space where they could collaboratively plan their presentations,
  • The live author interview was not a planned part of the project, but it used technology tools Smith and Fisch had previously tapped for other classroom events: Skype (a free videoconferencing application) and a webcam, Ustream for free live streaming and archiving, and Twitter to publicize the chat and to receive questions and comments in real time from remote listeners.
  • development to foster more student-centered learning.
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