This final blog post will be about case studies located on pages 229-244 in the book “The Global Educator” by Julie Lindsay. inside the pages of 229 and 244 are lists of case studies that explain and explore opportunities for professional collaboration and learning, in these case studies they include either online or virtual courses, conferences, and face to face events, also listed in these case studies is the leaders and activists that lead these collaborations. These case studies show that online and virtual collaboration is possible and can affect the people who participate in them positively.
These pages also include links to these leaders blogs and their twitters so that if the reader is interested they may follow and ask questions to these knowledgeable collaborators.
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To begin I would like to have some history on the creation of Virtual Reality and what it is. VR or virtual reality which has dated back all the way to 1957 and was devised by Morton Heilig, and known as the ‘Sensorama’. and the improvements of virtual reality throughout the years can be read and watched at these links.
This blog is about virtual reality and its’ connection with global collaboration. Gear VR which is a virtual reality head-mounted display mount developed by Samsung Electronics and is compatible with applications like Google expeditions, Google Earth Tours, Google Lit Trips just to name a few. But the real question is, is Gear VR capable of producing the same knowledge gathering and project creation that other global collaboration tools provide and the answer is yes. While some ways of global collaboration involve computer screens and seeing things through said screens, passing knowledge through speech, reading books and articles, VR is considered the tool to bring all these together and also bring you places you can not go and also to times in history we can not humanly go while being anywhere in the world.
VR can be an improvement to global collaboration for example children in the USA are trying to collaborate with kids in China on a project on the Great Wall but most kids from the USA have never even left there town rather the country to visit the site but with VR these kids can sit in the comfy classroom and see the wall as if they had teleported across the globe.
Here is part of a lesson plan and also a quiz I found interesting located on nuskool.com-
While exploring the apps that Google provides for its users I took a keen eye to Google Slides and its timeline making ability. Timelines by definition are graphic representations of the passage of time as a line. These events of time can be big or small and can definitely help you keep track of important dates while learning about specific events and even peoples lives.
I decided to make a quick timeline story of how my Mondays look starting at 3:30 pm with my first class and listing the times at which classes end and start all the way up to the end of the day and the end of my last class at 10 pm. Using the timelines offered by Google Slides the process was simple and very customizable with a lot of colors and type choices. The link to my timeline is posted below.
While visiting the Out of Eden Walk site located at this link https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/ I took about three good points that I found while exploring the site.
The first point I found that makes this a good site is the division of chapters and picture points on the map based on regions and locations, it helps to scroll and find specific points in the walk without having to go back through each and every point over and over again.
Second, the photos that are displayed for each point in the walk show how diversified and different the cultures Paul Salopek saw and is seeing on his 21,000-mile journey.
Lastly, “Slow Down, Find Humanity” as the site puts it. This walk adds a new perspective on the world just Salopek deciding to just walk 21,000 miles as he would follow the footsteps of the ancestors who traveled the world by foot before him and by doing this he would rediscover the world and show us the viewers how much is history and culture is missed in this technology expansive world.
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