This presentation includes images and links useful for helping you establish educational videoconferencing.

1. Take a Field Trip Without
Leaving the Classroom:
Museums, Zoos, and Distance
Learning

2. What sort of distance
learning do we mean?
There are obviously many forms of distance
learning.
Today, we will look at resources available in the
realm of interactive videoconferencing.

3. History of Educational
Videoconferencing
Slow start
Burst of content
providers
Collaboration

4. Distance Learning in
Museums
Interactive
videoconferences
Virtual tours
Designed to meet
national and state
standards

5. Why do field trips via distance
learning?
Expense
Green
Experiences that would be
inaccessible otherwise

6. What do you need?
High-speed internet connection
H.323 compatible equipment OR
H.320 compatible equipment
Television or computer
Can cost as much as $10,000 or as little as a
webcam and free software

7. Where can you find
programs?
Noodletrip
TWICE (Two Way Interactive Connections in
Education)
CILC

8. Noodletrip
Searchable site; lists
videoconference
program providers
and programs
Provides contact
information
http://www.noodletrip.com/

9. BCISD Directory (through
TWICE)
Searchable site; lists videoconference program
providers and their programs
Provides contact information
http://www.twice.cc/

10. CILC
Full name – Center for Interactive Learning and
Collaboration
Searchable listing of content providers
Requests for booking programs available on the CILC
website
CILC offers seminars for people becoming involved
www.cilc.org
with IVC

11. Content providers
Free programming
Highly rated programming

12. Free programming
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Eli Lilly and Company
Library of Congress
Arizona Memorial

13. Smithsonian American Art
Museum
• A House Divided: Civil War Images in the
Classroom
! ome along with museum docents on a
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videoconference tour of the Smithsonian
American Art Museum's Civil War.
• Beating the Odds: African American Women
Artists
! earn stories of how eight African American
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women represented in the Smithsonian
American Art Museum's collection "beat the
odds" to become recognized and respected in
the mostly male-dominated art world.

14. Smithsonian National Air and
Space Center
• Kites, Wings & Flying Things
! he 30-minute lesson takes place in front of the original
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Wright Brothers Flyer on display at the National Air &
Space Museum in Washington, DC. It is designed for
grades 3-5.
• To the Moon & Possibly Mars
! he 45-minute lesson features museum docents (volunteer
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tour guides). Two-way interaction is an integral part of
the experience. The docents describe major achievements
in getting to the moon, and identify obstacles and
problems encountered in placing a person there.

15. Eli Lilly and Company
• Brainlink: Memory and Learning !
! my Chappell, M.D., child neurologist and a physician
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working on one of Lilly's Product Teams, and experienced
distance learning presenter, brings this interactive series
of three events to your classroom.
• Chemistry is a Blast! !
! his is an exciting program of chemical demonstrations
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including explosions, colors, foams, fogs, and light. Your
students will enjoy the demos as they observe and learn
about the chemistry of combustion, phase changes, heat
transfer, polymers, and many other aspects of chemistry.

16. Arizona Memorial Museum
Association
• Inside the Vault: The Curators Series
!Inside the Vault: The Curators Series is a
program that allows students to view artifacts
that are currently not on display. Rare images
from the 14th Naval District Historic Photo
Collection are displayed.
• Pearl Harbor Survivor Series
! he Pearl Harbor Survivor series offers a
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distance learning opportunity like no other.
Now, students have an alternative way to learn
about our history. They get to experience a
historical perspective from those who were
there that fateful day.

17. Library of Congress
• Gathering Community Stories
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history and cultural identity through oral
history interviews. These generate first-hand
documentation that can be used in myriad
ways. Learn the process of collecting oral
history and gain skill through practice.
• Library of Congress ONLINE!
! ake a guided tour of the Library of Congress
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Web site! Discover Edison's films; examine
maps; explore photographs of home towns and
exotic places; listen to America's songs,
memories, and speeches; track legislation or
contact Congress.

18. Highly rated
programming
The Mariners’
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Mariners’
Museum
Mote Marine
Laboratory
Indianapolis Zoo
Cleveland Museum of
Art
Mote Marine Laboratory

19. Indianapolis Zoo
• Amazing Amazon!
! ropical rainforests are the most biologically
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diverse places on Earth. Join us from our own
Amazon rainforest exhibit as we move, layer by
layer, through this amazing environment and
meet several of its inhabitants.
• Ani-math
! ow do numbers fit into a zoo environment?
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We'll talk about animal weights, heights,
speeds, and other ways we use math at the
zoo. And you won't believe how many pounds of
fish we go through in a year!

20. Cleveland Museum of Art
• Egyptomania! Series
! iscover the ingenuity of one of the
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world's earliest civilizations through this
lively series of four videoconferences just
for elementary students.
• Gods and Heroes of Greece and Rome
Learn why Herakles, Athena, and Dionysus
populate the CMA galleries in sculpture,
coins, vases and a sarcophagus.

21. Mote Marine Laboratory
• SHARKS: Devouring the Myth
! on't be afraid! See sharks up close and
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learn the truth about them! Find out why
it's more dangerous to be at home than in
the water with these fascinating
creatures.
• Coral Reefs
! hy are coral reefs important? Discover
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the value of coral reefs to wildlife and
how important they are to people too.

22. The Mariners’ Museum
• Age of Exploration
This popular program takes students on an
imaginative journey through time. They will explore
an era when cartographers were still mapping the
world and mariners were discovering new land
masses, thus fueling the desire for knowledge and
riches.
• 144 Days at Sea
This program will take a close look at the long sea
voyage that the first group of Jamestown settlers
made from England to Virginia. Learn about the
ships, the people, their jobs, what they ate on
board, and what they did for fun.

23. The Mariners’ Museum
• Captive Passage
! his interactive program will help students discover how
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the institution of black slavery shaped the history,
culture, and commerce of four continents over the course
of five centuries, and how its impact is still felt today.
• Clash of Armor
! he development of ironclad ships during the American Civil
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War was a technological advance that would forever
change the face of naval warfare. Using artifacts from
the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, this program will
introduce students to the development and use of
ironclad warships.

24. The Mariners’ Museum
(cont.)
• Pirates!
! his program introduces students to the lives and
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adventures of the pirates, both men and women, who
raided the East Coast and the Chesapeake Bay.
Students will examine some of the reasons for piracy,
the myths and lore of pirates, and the history of
piracy.
• Riding in a Log Canoe
Before the English reached the shores of Virginia, the
Jamestown area was inhabited by a thriving culture
of Powhatan people. Students will examine the
Powhatan methods of travel, trade, hunting, and
fishing, and learn about the daily lives of men,
women, and children.

25. State programming – How do I
meet the learning standards?
The Mariners’ Museum:
www.marinersmuseum.org/
distancelearning
Search by standard topic:
let’s see what we can find!
Math
Science
www.cilc.org
Reading