Bringing Technology to the Classroom
Hello families,
Today was an extremely awesome day in class. We were chosen as one of the classrooms in the district to test a new program called Google Expeditions.
Google Expeditions is a classroom program that utilizes the Google Earth photographs to allow students to see places all over the world as if they were actually there! Today, we visited places such as Egypt, The Great Barrier Reef, Venice, The Congo, London, and Mt. Everest.
How does it work?
Each student had a phone that was inside a set of goggles. The students could look through the goggles to see the photograph on the screen, but they were not ordinary photos. Each photo was a 360 degree panoramic photo of the area we were “visiting.” As the students turned their heads, they could see other parts of the picture as if they were actually there!
The students seemed to enjoy themselves, and the learning potential is almost limitless. So I would like to take a moment to thank the Dearborn Public Schools, and Google, for allowing us the opportunity to test out this amazing program!
*Here is a short video of the program, unfortunately you cannot see what the students see, but the joy is genuine*
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