Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips are videoconferences that motivate students to become active learners, score higher on writing assignments, use more figurative language, apply more varied and creative approaches to problem solving, and engage in classroom discussions. Virtual Field Trip opportunities are provided by Texas Connects, Connect2Texas and CILC. Most are for students but some videoconferences offered are professional development for school district staff.
Education Service Centers offer videoconference opportunities throughout the year for students of all grade levels. Most of these are free and available via TETN, the Texas Education Telecommunications Network. All twenty Education Service Centers are members of TETN and provide connectivity across the state for videoconferencing between and among school districts.
Connect2Texas promotes programs offered by institutions in the State of Texas. It is also intended to be used by schools and other entities to register for programs from these providers. Most videoconferences are fee based and occasionally are offered free.
CILC, Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration provides a list of collaboration opportunities for your students each week and their website allows you to search for collaborative projects. The links for these are below.
FREE Virtual Field Trips
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Remember you must register with Vickie Sullivan so your videoconference site connection can be scheduled.
Email: vickie.sullivan@region10.org; Telephone: 972.348.1164
FREE Professional Development
None currently availble
Fee-based Virtual Field Trips - Currently Available:
Connect2Texas promotes programs offered by interactive videoconferencing providers in the State of Texas. It is also intended to be used by schools and other entities to register for programs from one of our providers. Please let us know if we can help "steer" you in the right direction! For information about Connect2Texas or its providers, go to this link.
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Remember you must register with Vickie Sullivan so your videoconference site connection can be scheduled. Email: vickie.sullivan@region10.org; Telephone: 972.348.1164
Collaborative Project - Currently Available:
Check the Resource Share website to find a Region 10 classroom to share costs on a virtual field trip, or post an idea for a collaborative classroom project, or offer a credit course through teacher sharing.
Resource Sharing via Videoconferencing
Classroom Colaborations - Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
CLIC usually has over 100 collaboration projects listed. Just click the link above to see what is available for students in kindergarten through the twelfth grade.
1st Grade Partners
I teach a first grade class in Kinder, LA. I am interested in partnering with another first grade class from a different state or even another country. Topics to be discussed could be the differences in weather, seasons, holiday celebrations,etc. between the two states/countries. I am interested in meeting at least 3 times during the school year.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 1
Visit Us in Louisiana
Our middle school students are attending a summer enrichment program and would like to visit with other schools to share unique information about Louisiana.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 6, 7, 8
Novel Discussion
Sophomore English class seeking partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussions. We read the following books: The Scarlet Letter, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, A Streetcar Named Desire, Their E...
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 9, 10
Novel Discussion
Our 11th grade English Literature class is seeking partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussion. We will be reading the following books: Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 11, 12
Senior English Novel Discussion
Senior English Literature class is seeking partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussion. We will be reading the following books: Hamlet, Madame Bovary, A Doll's House, The End of the Affair, Interpreter of Maladies, The Inferno, ...
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 11, 12
Honors English 4 Novel Discussion
Honors English 4 is seeking partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussion. We will be reading the following novels: The Sound and the Fury, Hamlet, A Doll's House, Madame Bovary, Family Happiness
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 11, 12
4th Grade Book Discussion
Grade 4 is seeking class partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussion. We will be reading the following books: All The Way Home and From the Mixed Up Home of Miss Basil E. Frankweiler.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 4
Grade 5 Book Discussion
Grade 5 is seeking class partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussion We will be reading the following books: Number The Stars, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Watson's Go to Birmingham.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 5
Grade 6 Book Discussion
Grade 6 is seeking class partners for the 2009/2010 school year to collaborate in a novel discussion We will be reading the following books: Roll of Thunder-Here My Cry, The Egypt Game, Homecoming, The Giver, Out of the Dust, Homeless Bird, The 21 Balloons.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 6
English Class Novel Discussions
Freshman English class seeking partners for the 2009/10 school year to collaborate in novel discussions. We read the following: Romeo & Juliet, Emma, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, War of the Worlds, Jane Eyre, Ellen Foster.
Status: Seeking Partners
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 9, 10
Remember you must register with Vickie Sullivan so your videoconference site connection can be scheduled. Email: vickie.sullivan@region10.org; Telephone: 972.348.1164
Virtual Field Trip and Videoconference listserv
Join the Virtual Field Trip and Videoconference listserv to learn about free events and share information about virtual field trips and videoconference collaboration opportunities with other members. Recommendations, invitations to participate, and instructional strategies from subscribers may be posted on the Virtual Field trip listserv. Subscribers are expected to:
- write messages thoughtfully and professionally,
- sign all postings with name and email address,
- address the topic intended for discussion on the listserv,
- abide by copyright and confidentiality requirements, and
- not use this list to consummate commercial transactions.
Contact: Bob Barnes, 972 348-1610, bob.barnes@region10.org
How to Plan a Virtual Field Trip
- Review the content providers offering and see how each aligns with the TEKS objectives and enriches the lesson being taught
- Teach a preparatory lesson before the virtual field trip
- State a measurable objective for a culminating activity
- Consider pairs or groups of students working on their own
- Extend the experience to word processing, desk top publishing, or multimedia presentations
- Teach at least one lesson after the trip with a culminating activity
- Follow through on a plan of assessment for completed student work