PBS Blog Post Number 2: A Trip Back in Time to Mercy Street

We had our first experience using 360 video in the Norwin HS Library, and PBS asked me to document it in a blog post. Here is my second blog post for PBS Teachers Lounge: "A Trip Back in Time to Mercy Street."

Blog Post for PBS Teachers' Lounge

I was thrilled to contribute a blog post for PBS Teachers' Lounge, published on March 24, 2017. It was based off of a PA School Librarian post entitled "Virtual Field Trips," but it goes into much more step-by-step detail as to how a beginner can create a successful virtual field trip for their students. Here's the post: http://www.pbs.org/education/blog/foreign-language-virtual-field-trips-a-travel-guide-for-beginners. After creating the post, I learned about a PBS virtual field trip that students could take using 360 degree video content from their Civil War series Mercy Street. The brief video is available from the free Littlstar app, and the lesson can be extended to include a discussion and a written activity or assessment. I had the opportunity to forge a new collaboration with one of my social studies colleagues, so this is why I am so thrilled to learn about new and engaging PBS virtual reality content. Hopefully a post on this lesson soon!