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OK, it's your turn to make a Virtual Tour.

1. Determine a Virtual Tour that will fit with your unit of instruction (I know, you will have to be very clever with this one!) 2. Create a Tour with at least 7 stops. 3. Post the link on your Unit (with an accompanying lesson).


 * FOR GOOGLE EARTH:**

Attributes of your Virtual Tour: --it is the product you are using for a lesson within your Unit; --at least 5 stops have embedded pictures in the popup; --at least 3 stops have embedded links to internet sites; --the descriptions must contain information that is INTERESTING and ENGAGING!!!!! --MAKE SURE that you are at the altitude that you want the student to be observing the stop. --//**each stop must have a questions that can only be answered by observing the stop or using information found in that stop.**//


 * WAIT!** Let's think like a teacher--and to do that, you have to place yourself in the student's position. If you simply create a tour and the student is sitting at a computer going on your tour and they have NOTHING to do and NO questions to answer, how engaged will they be? How will you assess their learning? These are things you MUST START THINKING ABOUT when you design your lessons. So, within the tour, you have to ask students questions that they can only answer by observing the TOUR or finding information in one of the layers of the tour (wikipedia, etc.).

DO NOT MAKE THE FATAL error of making a GoogleEarth "Movie" or a GoogleEarth "Tour" with their shortcut program. Make the tour using my tutorial. I won't accept the shortcut (it's cheesy!)


 * FOR MAPWING:**

Attributes of your VIrtual Tour

--it is the product you are using for a lesson within your Unit; --at least 5 stops have 4 picture and questions per stop; --all the stops have at least one linked website to give the students more information on the question you are asking; --the descriptions must contain information that is INTERESTING and ENGAGING!!!!! --//**each stop must have a questions that can only be answered by observing the stop or using information found in that stop.**//


 * WAIT!** Let's think like a teacher--and to do that, you have to place yourself in the student's position. If you simply create a tour and the student is sitting at a computer going on your tour and they have NOTHING to do and NO questions to answer, how engaged will they be? How will you assess their learning? These are things you MUST START THINKING ABOUT when you design your lessons. So, within the tour, you have to ask students questions that they can only answer by observing the TOUR or finding information in one of the layers of the tour (wikipedia, etc.).

MAKE SURE YOU EMBED YOUR MAPWING IN YOUR LESSON (not just give a link to it)


 * WAIT!** Let's think like a teacher--and to do that, you have to place yourself in the student's position. If you simply create a tour and the student is sitting at a computer going on your tour and they have NOTHING to do and NO questions to answer, how engaged will they be? How will you assess their learning? These are things you MUST START THINKING ABOUT when you design your lessons. So, within the tour, you have to ask students questions that they can only answer by observing the TOUR or finding information in one of the layers of the tour (wikipedia, etc.).

WHAT TO TURN IN? Send me the link to your map tour embedded in the supporting lesson plan.