Video Conferencing
Open your classroom to the world using our new Tanberg IP based video conferencing equipment. Connect with field experts, authors and classrooms from around the world; or take your students on a virtual field trip!
Search for existing opportunities using the links below. You may also plan your own project and post on collaboration sites to invite others to join. See your computer resource teacher for more details.
Video Conferencing and Virtual Field Trips
Videoconferencing can be a one time event or can be a series of meetings connected to a topic or a goal (collaboration project). Topics could range from testing and comparing water sources, music concerts/practices, pen-pals, creative writing projects, mock trials, information sharing, debates, and many more ideas!
Virtual Field Trips allow students to connect with experts and "visit" museums, science centers, national parks, zoos, and so much more.
Polycom Searchable Database of Field Trips and Programs.
NASA Digital Learning Network Catalog
Search for Virtual Field Trips at the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
Search the VC Content Providers Database for virtual field trips, expert and classroom connections.
Money is available for program fees. Please contact Amy or Tim to set up your field trip.
Current Classroom Connection Collaboration Projects
Search Projects in iEarn
Contact Amy or Tim to have an iEarn account set up for you and your students if you are interested in any of the iEARN projects.
About iEARN - There are over 150 projects in iEARN all designed and facilitated by teachers and students to fit their curriculum and classroom needs and schedules. To join, participants select an online project and look at how they can integrate it into their classroom. With the project selected teachers and students enter online forum spaces to meet one another and get involved in ongoing projects with classrooms around the world who are working on the same project. In addition to connecting students' learning with local issues and meeting specific curriculum needs, every project proposed by teachers and students in iEARN has to answer the question, "How will this project improve the quality of life on the planet?" This vision and purpose is the glue that holds iEARN together, enabling participants to become global citizens who make a difference by collaborating with their peers around the world.
Web-Based Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips for the Web
Virtual Science Dissections, Labs and Field Trips