Speaking
There is a unique speaking opportunity for students on a LEARNZ virtual field trip:
- putting their own question directly to an expert during a live audioconference
Such a speaking opportunity has value because it is:
- intrinsic: the student owns the question
- immediate: the expert answers the student’s question right then and there
- personal: the student and the expert form a relationship, albeit brief
- integrated: the question and answer are part of a larger classroom learning and teaching programme
Presenting
Material on the website for a LEARNZ virtual field trip is Creative Commons (but people must give credit to material produced by others and cannot sell what they create).
Students have the opportunity, therefore, to re-work LEARNZ items into their own digital or physical presentations, such as:
- slideshows
- blog posts
- videos
- seminars
Ideally, their new presentation would include their own and LEARNZ items, such as:
- videos
- photos
- drawings
- diagrams
- mind maps
- graphs and designs
- audio snippets
- writing (headings, summary text)
Presentations could be shared with
- classmates
- other classes (in a syndicate or school assembly)
- their teacher(s)
- parents, caregivers, whanau
- wider community
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