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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Ellen Manning, Kaplan University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, emanning@kaplan.edu// //Laurie Hansen, Kaplan University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, LPatti-Dillon@kaplan,edu// //Julieta Beam, Kaplan University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, jbeam@kapan.edu//
 * Virtual Field Trips**

Humanizing our synchronous communication with students during live seminars or student conferences has always been an objective for effective online teaching. One method that engages students is the virtual field trip. These web-based trips must be relevant to the topic at hand but can also expand a concept, idea or objective for a lesson and enable the student to extrapolate information and contruct his or her own learning outcomes. The results can be rewarding, enriching and just plain fun.

All Audiences synchronous tools