Stills and Videos from Virtual Field Trips in Vermont

Two recent workshops from the 2011 ISTE conference: 1) teachers learning to dance via videoconferencing; 2) teachers experiencing a (sheep's) heart dissection via videoconferencing...

Teachers from around the state participating in a workshop followup meeting:

Students participating in the Tundra Connection videoconference:

Students videoconferencing with Senator Leahy:

Students speaking with an expert from the Houston Space Center:

Washington West Supervisory Union is doing some great things with videoconferencing this year. Click on the following links to see some examples:

http://www.schooltube.com/video/37630c5e062f9babedb2/Kindergarten%20Mammal%20Mania

http://www.schooltube.com/video/61662ea9e741c5716f06/2nd%20Grade%20Dino%20Video%20Conferencing%20Program

These students aren't from Vermont but they very well could be! High school ag students in South Dakota use videoconferencing to teach over 700 elementary students in their district about the animals they care for:

http://bit.ly/oSdYpq 

Check out what some U32 students had to say about videoconferencing as reported in their district newsletter:

U32 Students.pdf

Here's an example of a virtual field trip with Mote Marine Laboratory:

Interested in dinosaurs? Watch this informational video from the Royal Tyrrell Museum:

Linda Darling-Hammond talks transformation via video conference with the

VT State Board of Education's Policy Commission on June 8, 2009