Virtual reality can be highly beneficial in the classroom by providing immersive, interactive learning experiences that engage students in new and dynamic ways. It allows students to explore complex concepts, environments, and historical events firsthand, enhancing understanding and retention.

Youtube 360

YouTube 360 is a feature that allows users to upload and view videos in a 360 degree format. This technology enables users to experience content, such as travel, concerts, and educational material, in a more engaging and dynamic way, as if they are physically present in the scene.

Benefits:

• prioritizes clear communication
• cultural awareness
• engage in diverse perspectives
• bridge geographical gaps
• participation
• fosters a collaborative environment

History in 360

Example:

YouTube 360 history videos can be highly beneficial in the classroom by offering students an immersive and interactive way to explore historical events, landmarks, and cultural heritage from around the world. This visual and experiential learning approach allows students to engage with history in a more impactful way, fostering deeper understanding and empathy for different cultures. YouTube 360 videos can facilitate global collaborations by connecting students from diverse countries, allowing them to explore shared historical moments and compare perspectives on events. Collaborative projects using these videos such as virtual tours or joint discussions help break down geographical barriers, promote cross cultural dialogue, and build global awareness, enhancing students’ ability to work together in a globalized world.

The WE Virtual Learning Center offers a dynamic, interactive platform designed to support both educators and students in achieving their full potential. With a wide range of resources such as, online courses, lesson plans, interactive tools, and professional development opportunities this website is a hub for collaborative and personalized learning experiences.

One standout feature of the WE Virtual Learning Center is its interactive lesson plans in the, say it now tab. These lesson plans are designed to be adaptable, allowing teachers to tailor content to their students’ needs. This makes it easier for educators to create lessons that are not only educational but also engaging, fostering a more interactive and impactful classroom experience.

These are some accessibility tools that are offered to Stockton students

1. In Class

This tool is beneficial to use for organizing class schedules, video notes, audio notes, or photo notes.

2. MyHomework student planner

This tool allows you to track classroom assignments, homework, and tests in a calendar display. The calendar provided within, can also be synced to other plate forms!

3. C-Pen Reader

A C-Pen reader is a portable device that reads printed text aloud with an English, Spanish or French human-like digital voice. This could be used for assignments, reading, exams, ect.

4. Glean

Glean is a tool that can be used to help students capture, organize, and review information more effectively. This is to create meaningful notes from, lectures, meetings, or independent work.

5. JAWS

JAWS is a tool used to read allow text on a screen. This is to help anyone whose vision prevents them from being able to see the screen and obtain information visually, this allows them to obtain information through hearing.

6. Mathshare

Mathshare is a tool used to breakdown math problems in parts to organize the problem and enhance focus.

7. Easy Reader

This tool helps those who have dyslexia, low vision, or blindness by reading aloud text information.

A Hyper Doc is…

• Interactive
• Unique
• Informative
• Engaging

HyperDocs are interactive implications into a lesson that replaces the traditional teacher hand outs! These tools allows the students to be at the hands of their own learning!

HyperDocs come in the form of…

• Google Docs
• Google Slides
• Google Maps
• Edpuzzles
• Articles
• And the list goes on!

These resources will contain information unique to the lessons at hand, and usually encourages collaborations with other students.

A virtual field trip to the San Diego Zoo via their live animal cameras offers a rich, educational experience that’s both fun and accessible. It’s a fantastic way to engage with the natural world, even when a physical zoo visit isn’t possible. So gather your family or students, log on to the San Diego Zoo’s website, and embark on an unforgettable journey into the wild—no plane ticket required!

https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cameras

Within the San Diego Zoo website a simple search for live cams allows you to view exhibits from

• The Giant Panda cam
• Koala cam
• Baboon cam
• Polar cam
• Penguin cam
• Hippo cam
• Ape cam
• Tiger cam
• Platypus cam

From the Safari Park you can view exhibits like

• Giraffe cam
• Burrowing Owl cam
• Condor cam
• Red Panda cam
• Elephant cam

As for communication being, one of the 7 c’s in the Microsoft textbook, communication takes a huge role in the classroom. The enhancement of student to teacher interactions has came a long way since years prior. In Microsoft’s advancements in technology such as Skype, Flipgrid, and Microsoft teams and forms, communication has made huge improvements. Not only do these advancements improve student to teacher interactions it also provides a space for students to collaborate effectively within the classroom. All in all, communication has came a long ways and continues to improve due to different avenues two or more can communicate within the classroom.

Skype allows two or more people to video chat. This allows for effective communication since it is face to face and not through text, allowing all people to truly understand what is being said.

Microsoft teams and forms allows for communication through many different features within the apps. These apps allows for collaboration amongst a group of people with features such as

• chats/messaging
• videos
• calls
• polls
• forms

Flip grid allows communication through

• visuals
• verbal expression
• team projects

The integration of National Geographic into the classroom can be done through

• digital learning
• cross-curricular projects
• field trips

Digital Learning

National Geographic provides articles, videos, documentaries, as well as interactive tools such as maps on the website.

Cross-Curricular Projects

Within the material National Geographic provides, you can touch bass on all core subjects, math, science, social studies and language arts.

• Math: National Geographic provides data about species and the environment, so using this to practice graphing, analyzing data, and probability
• History: Research project can be given out through the lenses of history explorations, indigenous cultures and ancient civilizations from the information provided from national geographic
• Science: With the incorporations of videos, documentaries, and articles on the ecosystem, wildlife, and the environment, students could use projects, and models, based on what they have learned.
• Language Arts: With the articles provided, students can work on summarizing, critiquing and writing their own articles from the content.

Field Trips

Within the website, National Geographic provides a feature where you can do a virtual filed trip. Using this students can

• experience different cultues
• historicals sites
• habitats

This resource doesn’t limit students to areas around them and really allows them to experience different areas around the world.

Collaboration plays a huge role from early eduction all the way through higher education. This aspect of the classroom enhances, outcomes of projects, forces creativity amongst one another, and improves the over all material of any given project. When collaboration is brought into the classroom, later on in life, students can integrate this skill into their everyday life, and their work place.

Collaboration allows

1. A range of perspective
2. Improves efficency
3. Roles of responsibility
4. Improve problem solving skills
5. Creates relationships with people you would not typically learn towards

These 5 outcomes of collaboration, are all skills one can use later on in life!

I found Adventures in Authentic Learning by Kristian Harrington to be the most interesting book. Harrington includes information from the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). This information provides early education teachers with class activities and projects that integrates technology to the benefit of students.

Using this type of learning it can develop…

• creativeness
• critical thinking skills
• team work skills
• communication skills
• technology literacy