For my virtual tour project, I did a Google Earth tour of National Landmarks in the United States, which went along with my First Grade curriculum. Then, I created a screencast giving additional facts about the landmarks. I thought the virtual tour was a lot of fun to make and would be great for the students to create on their own. But I found the screencast to be a little more challenging. I recorded many times and seemed to never have a perfect recording. I think screencast would be very helpful, but for me, I would have to prepare myself that no recording would be 100% perfect. But I think the students would love to hear the teacher's voice while taking a virtual tour. I think students would be able to use the virtual tour to show places they have traveled to share with the class. That would be a fun project. For the screencast, the Third Grade students could use this technology to show websites they found to research a topic for a writing assignment.
Screencast of Virtual Tour
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