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Trevor Cory

National Air and Space Museum Educational Programs -- Educational Video Conferencing - 1 views

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    Educational Videoconferencing Students can interact with the National Air and Space Museum without leaving the classroom! The museum offers Interactive Videoconferencing programs featuring the museum's staff and docent volunteers. Use of the unique National Air and Space Museum collection and the universally-engaging nature of aviation and space make these programs relevant and exciting. Students request a video conference time to set up a time to have a lesson with one of the programs offered. The students will be able to have a live lesson from one of the volunteer tour guides at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum!
Yuxin Wang

Videoconferencing: Going beyond the classroom without leaving school - 0 views

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    Many enthusiastic teachers are now "looking for forward-thinking, enriching learning experiences that take students beyond classroom walls." This site can help teacher to do so. Through this site, teachers can now connect their classes with experts in the topics covered in the curriculum, and then students can take the class through interactive video conferencing without leaving their classrooms. This site also provide videoconferencing in many different subject area . The videoconferences provide by this site should not just make teaching easier, will also enhance enhance the subject program learning tremendously. Students in social study class can use videoconference with the Mariners' Museum. Not only they can take a visual tour of this museum, but also can talk to the experts who are working there for further information.
Jeong Joo

History Live | Minnesota History Center - 0 views

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    Minnesota History Center is an interactive museum with both permanent and changing exhibits. The museum offers live history lessons via video conferencing to teach elementary level children about various topics in American history and specifically Minnesota history. Children can learn about the local history not covered in textbooks. Students in small groups will research one of the ten possible topics offered by the History Center and do a brief presentation for the rest of the class. After presentations, class can vote on which lesson is set up for the video conferencing and set up the time for the lesson to take place
Jeong Joo

Virtual Field Trips - Royal Botanical Gardens - 0 views

shared by Jeong Joo on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
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    The Royal Botanical Gardens, an arboretum and museum in Ontario, Canada offers virtual field trip programs through video conferencing. Class can interact with educators and scientists and explore topics like biodiversity, conservation, botany, plant ecology and the environment. The lessons are available for all grade levels. The programs also provide teachers with pre and post conference activities. Prior to the video conference lesson on plant biodiversity, biology students are to do a short essay on one of the following prompts: 1. How does the environment affect a plant's structure and function? 2. How are we impacting their survival and our environment? 3. What can I do to help restore and sustain the biodiversity of our natural world? After the video conference lesson, students can do a revision to their original essay.
Trevor Cory

Field Trips - 1 views

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    twice.cc is a video conferencing website that connects teachers and students to virtual, real-time tours of places they might not regularity be able to visit due to distance, budget or other constraints. Places you can connect to are; zoos, museums, NASA, U.S. Congress and more! Students will research this site to find a place they find interesting and would like to tour. They are then responsible to try and set up a time to coordinate a meeting between them and their place. If approved, students will be able to enjoy their virtual tour.
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