Through video conferencing, schools can virtually bring experts and resources into the classroom without requiring students to travel, as noted by Joe Cataline from the Linden School District in New Jersey. The document provides contact information for Rebecca Ussery at the National Science Center - Army regarding their distance learning program and includes several URLs for video conferencing platforms and websites that provide virtual field trips and simulations.

1. Videoconferencing: How to plug into your best resources. Joe Oliphant Propel Schools [email_address]

2. “ Through video conferencing we get a chance to bring the world to the classroom without putting students on buses.” - Joe Cataline, Linden School District, New Jersey

4. http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/

5. Rebecca Ussery Program Manager-Distance Learning National Science Center - Army One 7th Street Augusta, GA 30901 Telephone - 706-821-0222 [email_address]

7. http://lcdlc.lorainesc.k12.oh.us/

8. http://www.cilc.org/

9. http://www.twice.cc/

10. http://www.skype.com

11. http://www.oovoo.com/

12. http://www.tokbox.com/

13. http://www.mitenetwork.org/Virtual%20Field%20Trips.htm

14. http://www.melodiebrewer.com/field%20trips%20simulations.html