LC Virtual Exchange Document - Flipbook - Page 8
Introductory videos
• Students could make short videos, using Flipgrid (link to guide) for example, where they introduce
themselves. Then encourage the students to ask a few questions so they can start exchanging.
Virtual tours
In terms of a virtual visit of a local town, there was a lovely example for #ThinkLanguages from Templecarrig
School: http://tcggreystones.weebly.com/ Not quite a virtual visit but worth a look. It’s in several different
languages and very nicely done.
Search for your local town on YouTube; you might well find amazing drone footage. You might even find
historical footage and your local virtual tour could take a step back in time. Students should be capable of
putting together a good virtual tour of their local town using a combination of resources such as Google maps
and Google Earth.
https://www.genial.ly is a great tool for creating a tour as you can make it interactive with photos, video footage
and your own voiceover.
Under normal conditions, trips on school exchanges tend to be restricted to within an hour or two of the school.
So, ask your students to find virtual tours of all the places in Ireland to which they would like to take their
exchange students. You could do this as a WebQuest where the students present their country by finding
footage and preparing a series of questions for the partner class and vice versa. https://ppli.ie/news/webquestresources-for-ty/
https://virtualvacation.us/ is a great website which offers live footage, virtual walking, driving and flying tours
from cities around the world, and the opportunity to explore different monuments.
https://www.zeemaps.com/ allows you to create interactive maps.
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