Technology Article #1

I am so excited about my new discovery.  Earlier this year I was fiddling around on the Internet and I stumbled across a website entitled Plymouth plantation.  The website is awesome!  It has a lot of information about the original plimoth plantation.  From the home page  you can click on educational programs, and from educational programs you can click on online learning center. This allows the user to experience "You are the Historian, Investigating the First Thanksgiving."

"Investigating the First Thanksgiving," is a neat experience.  It takes the general public and allows them to have a first hand experience with something that occurred long ago.  It also allows an individual to visit a place which may not be accessible otherwise.  It is a fun and free technological experience. I love the idea of taking my future students on a virtual field trip.  Taking a class of students on a field trip back East is simply not feasible, but having them take a virtual field trip to the Plymouth plantation from the school computer lab is a wonderful alternative.  

I love the idea of virtual field trips.  There seem to be so many available for those willing to search them out.  I am thrilled that in my future teaching career I will have the opportunity to give my students first hand experience through technology that they may not be able to access otherwise.