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This document discusses virtual field trips and how they can be used in English and language arts classrooms. Virtual field trips allow students to visit locations they cannot physically access by using online resources. They can be used to provide context before reading assignments, supplement information from physical field trips, or expose students to new cultures and times periods. The document provides examples of virtual field trip resources available through the Smithsonian American Art Museum and explains how they promote visual and media literacy skills. It also shares positive feedback from colleagues who saw potential uses of virtual field trips in their own teaching.

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Virtual Fieldtrips By Alana Elkins
What is a Virtual Fieldtrip? An Internet-based trip that students take individually, in small groups or as a whole class.
Why Virtual Fieldtrips? To help students synthesize what they have learned on a class fieldtrip. To prepare students for an upcoming fieldtrips To students students with information about areas they are unable to visit as a class To provide students with information about areas their teacher visited.
For Example… The Smithsonian American Art Museum gives teachers and students the opportunity to visit back into the 1930’s in preparation for reading To Kill a Mockingbird or any other historical based text from that time period. http: //americanart . si .edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/
How Can we Tie Virtual Fieldtrips into English? We can study language arts by virtually being exposed to art work that poses questions and formulates discussions on our selected topics. 10th grade language arts focuses on culture Smithsonian Art Museum gives artistic insight into Native American, African American and Latino cultures http: //americanart . si . edu/education/tours/themes/index . cfm #AA
How Do We Take a Virtual Fieldtrip? A virtual tour held via video conference can be set up prior to lesson with the SAAM. http://americanart.si.edu/education/video/
Possible Fieldtrip Locations House Divided: Civil War African American Artists America Signs & Symbols Contemporary Craft: Clay Works Found Object Artwork Latino Art & Culture Lure of the West Native Americans Reshaping American Life: 1930s To See Is To Think: Visual Literacy Recognizing Women Artists
Connecting Virtual Fieldtrips to English Virtual fieldtrips to places like the SAAM promote visual literacy and media literacy, which improves literacy in general and writing skills. “ Media literacy can also scaffold traditional literacies in both elementary and high school because it supports students in developing richer understandings of texts.”
Connecting Virtual Fieldtrips to English cont. “ Medialiteracy is the ability to create personal meaning from the verbal and visual symbols we take in every day through television, radio, computers, newspapers and magazines,and,of course,advertising.It’s t he ability to choose and select,the ability to challenge and question, the ability to be conscious about what g oing on around us.”
Sources Internet based instructional strategies . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://online.education.ufl.edu/file.php/4198/Strategies/strategiesoverview2007.html Pace, B. (n.d.). Media literacy education . Retrieved from http://online.education.ufl.edu/file.php/4025/TMLwI_Intro_Chapter.pdf
Colleague Perception It was important for me to show my colleagues what a great tool virtual fieldtrips can be. I was able to tie in how virtual fieldtrips promote literacy through medialiteracy, which is a strategy that English teachers are trying to use more on a regular basis. As secondary English teachers, it is crucial for my colleagues to see how a fieldtrip can be a literary resource. My colleagues were very impressed with how simple it is to set a literary, yet artistic journey to establish prior knowledge before reading their literary work.
Colleague Perception cont. One colleague felt as though taking a virtual fieldtrip was the same as sitting the kids down and making the look at a website, but once I explained that it is interactive and something for the class to do together, he did not seems as apprehensive. One colleague found me after school to let me know that she searched the SAAM website and that she was already in contact with someone to set up a virtual fieldtrip.
My Virtual Fieldtrip Expansion I expanded on the virtual fieldtrip by finding the SAAM site and exploring it’s usage and possibilities for Language Arts classrooms. Language Arts is one of the most difficult subject areas to find fieldtrips in because the students don’t always find it as fun and hands on. Students do however like to discuss their viewpoints and interpretations, which is why the artwork becomes such a fundamental tool. When we read novels such as To Kill a Mockingbird it helps for students to see and know what life was like in America during the 1930’s. What better way to get those images and information across to students, than by virtually taking them to the SAAM.

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Virtual fieldtrips

  • 1. Virtual Fieldtrips By Alana Elkins
  • 2. What is a Virtual Fieldtrip? An Internet-based trip that students take individually, in small groups or as a whole class.
  • 3. Why Virtual Fieldtrips? To help students synthesize what they have learned on a class fieldtrip. To prepare students for an upcoming fieldtrips To students students with information about areas they are unable to visit as a class To provide students with information about areas their teacher visited.
  • 4. For Example… The Smithsonian American Art Museum gives teachers and students the opportunity to visit back into the 1930’s in preparation for reading To Kill a Mockingbird or any other historical based text from that time period. http: //americanart . si .edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/
  • 5. How Can we Tie Virtual Fieldtrips into English? We can study language arts by virtually being exposed to art work that poses questions and formulates discussions on our selected topics. 10th grade language arts focuses on culture Smithsonian Art Museum gives artistic insight into Native American, African American and Latino cultures http: //americanart . si . edu/education/tours/themes/index . cfm #AA
  • 6. How Do We Take a Virtual Fieldtrip? A virtual tour held via video conference can be set up prior to lesson with the SAAM. http://americanart.si.edu/education/video/
  • 7. Possible Fieldtrip Locations House Divided: Civil War African American Artists America Signs & Symbols Contemporary Craft: Clay Works Found Object Artwork Latino Art & Culture Lure of the West Native Americans Reshaping American Life: 1930s To See Is To Think: Visual Literacy Recognizing Women Artists
  • 8. Connecting Virtual Fieldtrips to English Virtual fieldtrips to places like the SAAM promote visual literacy and media literacy, which improves literacy in general and writing skills. “ Media literacy can also scaffold traditional literacies in both elementary and high school because it supports students in developing richer understandings of texts.”
  • 9. Connecting Virtual Fieldtrips to English cont. “ Medialiteracy is the ability to create personal meaning from the verbal and visual symbols we take in every day through television, radio, computers, newspapers and magazines,and,of course,advertising.It’s t he ability to choose and select,the ability to challenge and question, the ability to be conscious about what g oing on around us.”
  • 10. Sources Internet based instructional strategies . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://online.education.ufl.edu/file.php/4198/Strategies/strategiesoverview2007.html Pace, B. (n.d.). Media literacy education . Retrieved from http://online.education.ufl.edu/file.php/4025/TMLwI_Intro_Chapter.pdf
  • 11. Colleague Perception It was important for me to show my colleagues what a great tool virtual fieldtrips can be. I was able to tie in how virtual fieldtrips promote literacy through medialiteracy, which is a strategy that English teachers are trying to use more on a regular basis. As secondary English teachers, it is crucial for my colleagues to see how a fieldtrip can be a literary resource. My colleagues were very impressed with how simple it is to set a literary, yet artistic journey to establish prior knowledge before reading their literary work.
  • 12. Colleague Perception cont. One colleague felt as though taking a virtual fieldtrip was the same as sitting the kids down and making the look at a website, but once I explained that it is interactive and something for the class to do together, he did not seems as apprehensive. One colleague found me after school to let me know that she searched the SAAM website and that she was already in contact with someone to set up a virtual fieldtrip.
  • 13. My Virtual Fieldtrip Expansion I expanded on the virtual fieldtrip by finding the SAAM site and exploring it’s usage and possibilities for Language Arts classrooms. Language Arts is one of the most difficult subject areas to find fieldtrips in because the students don’t always find it as fun and hands on. Students do however like to discuss their viewpoints and interpretations, which is why the artwork becomes such a fundamental tool. When we read novels such as To Kill a Mockingbird it helps for students to see and know what life was like in America during the 1930’s. What better way to get those images and information across to students, than by virtually taking them to the SAAM.