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Google : Field trips to virtually anywhere
https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/#about/
Google : Field trips to virtually anywhere
Imagine exploring coral reefs or the surface of Mars in an afternoon. With Expeditions, teachers can take students on immersive, virtual journeys.
Choose an Expedition and invite your class to jump right in. With a Google Expeditions kit, you'll have everything you need to take your class on virtual reality tours: a tablet, virtual reality viewers, phones and a router to connect them all.

Make your own Virtual Tours for Google Cardboard
https://mashable.com/2016/03/31/google-embed-vr/#pNM57uERBSqW
Google makes it really easy to embed 360-degree VR experiences

Google Expeditions
https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/
Google Expeditions
Field trips are a great way for teachers to engage students and give them a first hand understanding of a subject — but they're not always practical or even possible.
Expeditions allows teachers to make their curriculum come alive by taking their students on field trips to almost anywhere they can imagine. Around the globe, on the surface of Mars, on a dive to coral reefs or back in time — abstract concepts come to life in Expeditions, giving students a deeper understanding of the world beyond the classroom.

Google Cardboard
https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/
Google Cardboard
Experience virtual reality in a simple, fun, and affordable way.
Get it, fold it and look inside to enter the world of Cardboard. It’s a VR experience starting with a simple viewer anyone can build or buy. Once you have it, you can explore a variety of apps that unfold all around you.

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Tripline
https://www.tripline.net/
At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you communicate by putting places on a map.
That's a very human activity that has been happening for thousands of years. We've added a social layer to that communication so, whether you're a regular person or a rockstar, you can share where you're going, where you are and where you've been with the people you care about. That could be your family, your friends, or all of your fans on the web...it's up to you.
And just like in the movies, the Tripline player gives you an animated line moving across the map with a soundtrack.

Virtual Field Trips Resources : listed as Symbaloo Gallery
https://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcR6QDh
Virtual Field Trips Resources : listed as Symbaloo Gallery

Checklist for planning a Virtual Field Trip
https://bit.ly/rwEAop
Checklist for planning a Virtual Field Trip

The Bus Ride: Webrings 2.0
https://mashable.com/2010/04/19/the-bus-ride-webrings-2-0/
The Bus Ride: Webrings 2.0
The Bus Ride lets users create and share collections of related web pages, based on a topic.
The Bus Ride acts as a kind of Webring 2.0, letting users create and navigate “routes,” collections of up to eight related links. When a user “rides the bus,” he is guided through each site on its route with an iframe containing a modicum of information and Facebook-powered annotations.

100 Incredible and Educational Virtual Tours
https://bit.ly/cWDETa
100 Incredible and Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss
The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space.
You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.

VoiceThread
https://voicethread.com/
VoiceThread is a free tool (in beta) that enables members to upload images, record accompanying audio commentary, and invite others to add commentary.
VoiceThreads are hosted free of charge at VoiceThread.com and can be embedded in blogs, wikis, and other types of Web sites. A VoiceThread is quick and easy to create, has plenty of space for numerous images and commentaries, and can be accessed by any Internet-enabled computer.
A VoiceThread can also be used to create a video tutorial. You can use the pen tool to draw lines and arrows on an image in real time as you are speaking.
"There are plenty of exciting educational possibilities with VoiceThread, especially in the humanities, fine arts, and foreign languages. In humanities classrooms students can analyze and comment on historically significant photographs and create virtual tours of places or events they are studying. English students can record their own poetry or short story and add evocative images. Photography and Drawing students can present their work and explain their techniques and motivations; students and teachers can then leave commentaries. Foreign language students can upload pictures from a trip and then explain their voyage in the language they are studying." (Tom Daccord)

Virtual Field Trips
https://www.uen.org/
Virtual Field Trips
Take OR Create a Virtual Field Trip on this site.

Virtual Field Trips : Teacher Created Material
http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
Virtual Field Trips : Teacher Created Material
Virtual Tours of Museums | Virtual Exhibitions |

Scholastic : Internet Field Trips
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/student-activities/
Scholastic : Internet Field Trips
Mainly on childrens literature and writing

Virtual Field Trip Permission Form
http://www.field-trips.org/
Virtual Field Trip Permission Form
In your child's classroom we are taking virtual journeys via the Internet and World Wide Web. In keeping with the tradition of a regular field trip, we are sending home a permission slip to notify you of these virtual "excursions" so that you might engage your child in a discussion of their online journey.

Virtual Field Trip Guidelines
http://surfaquarium.com/IT/vftguide.htm
Virtual Field Trip Guidelines
Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) are one way the WWW is truly revolutionizing learning in the classroom. As someone who always has strived to provide meaningful experiences for my students, I love the VFT concept! Still, I have learned over time that VFTs require serious planning and consideration in order to make them a success.
Here's a set of practical guidelines based on experiences for preparing, conducting and evaluating VFTs with your students:

Get Outta Class With Virtual Field Trips
https://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech071.shtml
Get Outta Class With Virtual Field Trips
You look outside the classroom window and see yet another in a long string of gloomy days. Inside the classroom, restless students seem mired in malaise. It must be time for a field trip! No money, you say, for busses or admission fees. No time for travel? Then why not a virtual field trip? The Web provides the resources; you provide the fun. Every day is a beautiful day for a virtual field trip!
Have you ever taken your students on a virtual field trip? If not, you're missing a great opportunity.

Why take field trips?
http://www.campsilos.org/excursions/hc/fieldtrip.htm
Why take field trips .. real or virtual.

Virtual Field Trips at i4c
https://www.internet4classrooms.com/vft.htm
Virtual Field Trips at i4c
Four decades ago one of my teachers took us on a field trip to see the plant where a children's aspirin was made. Why did we go? I am sure that I don't know. Perhaps we were being rewarded for good behavior. My point here is that before you consider a field trip, real or virtual, you should have firmly in mind what educational purpose the trip will serve. The first set of links will help you consider that portion of a field trip.

Virtual Field Trips | over the Internet
http://www.field-trips.org/
Tramline developed TourMaker software back in 1996. Over the years TourMaker has earned a reputation as the best tool for creating Virtual Field Trips and Web Tours.
Over the years we have also developed one of the highest quality and most reliable sources of ready-to-use virtual field trips for the K-12 classroom and at-home use.
Try a FREE Trial version of TourMaker software, then buy it to create your own field trips!
Explore one of our more than 30 FREE Virtual Field Trips designed specifically for K-12.
This section of the site is dedicated to providing FREE, high-quality, virtual field trips for the K-12 classroom. These trips have received many awards, among them a USA TODAY Education award, and the National Science Teacher's Association.
antarctica | antartic | baking bread | deserts | dinosaurs | endangered species | fierce creatures | getting green | hurricanes | insects | minibeasts | oceans | rainforest |
Order the definitive book on virtual field trips.

Developing Virtual Field Trips
http://www.virtualblackboard.com/
As teachers, we know that field trips motivate and educate our kids.
We also know they are time-consuming, difficult to organize, and often affected by the weather.
In many cases, the places we would most like to visit aren't nearby or aren't open at the time we are covering them in the curriculum. In these cases, the next best thing to a real field trip is a virtual field trip.
In fact, virtual field trips are often better because they take you places you couldn't otherwise go, for example, inside a volcano, under the ocean, or straddling a fault line.
virtual field trips |

Tramline : Virtual Fieldtrips Software
http://www.tramline.com/
Tramline : Virtual Fieldtrips Software
Try a FREE Trial version of TourMaker?software, then buy it to create your own field trips!
Tramline developed TourMaker?software back in 1996. The company was founded by a group of individuals dedicated to creating a tool for education and training that could be used to help to organize the chaos of the Web.
Over the years TourMaker?has earned a reputation as the best tool for creating Virtual Field Trips and Web Tours, providing a host of navigation and orientation aids absent in other field trip formats.