1. Pack Your Bags! We’re going on a trip

2. Virtual Field Trips  Best way to learn is to “experience” the content  Making connections leads to the “A-Ha” moment  Give learning a fighting chance  Build Background Knowledge (Marzano Research Lab)Background  Where, Why, Wow!Wow

3. Choose Your Destination Wisely  Theteachersguide.com Theteachersguide.com  efieldtrips.org efieldtrips.org  eduscapes.com eduscapes.com  www.cesa10.k12.wi.us www.cesa10.k12.wi.us

4. Grab Your Passport  What was life like at the turn of the century?  What was it like to immigrate to the U.S. in 1916?  Tenement.org: http://www.tenement.org/http://www.tenement.org/

5. Just What’s Out There?  Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) http://www.cilc.org/http://www.cilc.org/  PBS webinars: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/index.html http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/index.html  Discovery Ed: WebExWebEx  ePals: http://www.epals.comhttp://www.epals.com  Buffalo Zoo: buffalozoo.orgbuffalozoo.org

6. How Might We Get There?  Start with these three great resources:  Skype: www.skype.comwww.skype.com  Tokbox: www.tokbox.comwww.tokbox.com  Google Earth: earth.google.comearth.google.com

7.  Web-based communication tool  FREE VIDEO CONFERENCING using Internet  Available to anyone with high speed connection  Let’s see who we can wake up!

8.  The true vehicle for virtual tours  Downloaded application  Enables you to travel to any location in the world: Earth, Moon, Solar System, Oceans  View structures from above  Fly over your school  Online community continues to create academic support  http://www.gelessons.com/ http://www.gelessons.com/  http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html  Layers” and “overlays” available in.KML &.KMZ format

9. Big Deal!?  How does this impact instruction & comprehension?  What’s next?  Mobile video conferencing capabilities exist

10. So What?  What will you do with this resource at hand?  Develop your own “tour” for next week  Use any of the aforementioned tools to take us where we need to go to learn more about our topic.  Relate it to your teachable  Prepare to present it next class HOW WILL YOU PROVIDE THE NECESSARY BACKGROUND?