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Project #4: Power point Project

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For this project, we had to upload a virtual field trip that we create for our Social Studies class. For Social Studies we had to chose any place in the world and create a virtual field trip using Microsoft Power point. The idea was to give the students the experience of visiting a place that they might not otherwise have been able to visit due to lack of funding or for other reasons. I decided to do my virtual field trip on Boldt Castle. Boldt Castle is located in the heart of the Thousand Islands in Alexandria Bay, N.Y. It holds a special place in my heart, for I would spend my Fourth of Julys there every summer. The history and story behind the castle is so real and magical, and to see it in person is even more special. I had no problem finding websites about Boldt castle, there is lots of information out there. However, there are only a couple of websites that I found real useful for a field trip. For technology, we then used Nvu to create a page to link our virtual field trip to and to write an annotation. I think that Power Point will be something I will use frequently in the classroom if the technology is available. Power Point enables us as teachers to differentiate our instruction and offer students a more experiential way to learn. It is a good program to use for virtual field trips, for students to make presentations for their parent teacher conferences, and for any other presentations to the class, parents, teachers, or principal.