Nearpod uses media and assessments to make lessons interactive. With Nearpod VR (Virtual Reality) students can experience virtual reality, virtual field trips, and explore all around the world. Nearpod has many VR Lessons already pre-created. or you to choose from over 300,000 virtual reality experiences. Nearpod virtual reality can support global collaboration by providing an…
Month: April 2021
The Use of Virtual Reality in the Classroom
By: Tara Giandomenico Virtual Reality can be beneficial in all kinds of classrooms. I am studying to become an elementary school teacher, so my blog post will include research on how to use VR for younger children. Google Cardboard is a great tool to have in the classroom to assist with using Virtual Reality in…
Gear VR and Oculus Rift Using Google Earth Tour
Virtual Reality allows children and adults of all ages to feel as if they are in a different world. The Gear VR goggles has a strap that wraps around the head, so people can experience the new virtual life. There are also foam pieces that prevent light from seeping in to give the true outer…
Virtual Reality: Global Collabartion
The Google Cardboard virtual reality tool is a great tool to use inside a classroom and also very affordable. I have used it inside a classroom as my time as a student. The way it works is you put a iPhone or android inside the cardboard and download an app that can be used. The…
Virtual Reality in the Classroom
As human beings, we learn best through experiences. As teachers we want our students to get as many hands on experiences as possible in order to make their learning experience the most memorable and worthwhile. Unfortunately, we can not take students on a field trip every day to accommodate the lesson being taught. However, with…
Out Of Eden Walk
In today’s post I walked through a National Geographic website called “Out of Eden” where you can explore past migration of people from several centuries into the past. I explored Chapter 4. Silk Road in this website and it was phenomenally detailed and rich with information. Chapter 4 is a series of stories and experiences…
Out of Eden Walk
The Out of Eden Walk can be explored on the National Geographic website, this is a great way of learning about global collaboration in your classroom and for yourself. Global collaboration is extremely important for all students to learn about, and this site is a great place to start. In this first section of the…
Out Of Eden Walk
I recently explored National Geographic‘s Out Of Eden Walk’s webpage. The Out of Eden Walk is a projected created by journalist Paul Salopek, with the goal of exploring the pathways the first humans took out of Africa. The first chapter had Salopek’s start out in Northern Ethiopia, with the goal of making it to Djibouti….
Out of Eden Walk
It was 2013, when Paul Salopek decided to take a journey to retrace the steps of those who migrated before us. He tells us a story made of many smaller stories through pictures, videos, words and more. In chapter one, out of Africa where the journey starts Paul finds man-made wells. In this desert, people…
The Walk Out of Eden
This week we took a walk out of Eden with National Geographic. In 2013 Paul Salopek set out to retrace ancient global migration on foot. This journey will take him a total of 10 years. Even now, Paul is in the fifth chapter of his odyssey and is exploring the River lands. Paul’s hope was…