Talk About Your Virtual Field Trip!

Going places you'll never be able to go to.  Seeing things you might never see.  Ah, the power of technology!  Although I agree with the TV commercial saying you "have to get out there", for some of our kids, and us for that matter, there are so many things we will never have the chance to experience and far away places we will never see, unless of course we hook up with Darren and Sandy Van Soye who are embarking on a 400-day around-the-world journey to raise geo-literacy in K-12 students.  They start their journey in January.  I think our kids would love to follow their travels, and heck they might even learn something along the way.  You can check them out at:

http://www.trekkingtheplanet.net/

Never been to the Vatican? Well, step right up....

Check out this very cool website.  One of the issues we face with our students, many who come from poverty, is a shortcoming in their background knowledge.  It's not an achievement gap, it's a background knowledge gap. Technology has the potential to somewhat even the playing field in terms of taking kids to places they might not ever get to visit, or seeing things they might not otherwise see in their lifetime.  How can you grasp the vision and the magnificence of Michelangelo without visiting the Sistine Chapel?  I was fortunate enough to visit Rome last summer with my wife, but most of my kids will never see it.  Or maybe they might....  It's just a click away.


http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/index_sistina_en.htm