Students take virtual trip around the world through Videoconferencing
Students were able to travel through different time zones to visit sites around the world, thanks to a videoconferencing programme delivered through JANET Videoconferencing Service and embc (formerly the East Midlands Broadband Consortium).
Helped by the National History Museum and the National Space Centre the students interacted with fictional characters to learn about the effect of time through nature and the sky at night. The journey culminated in a trip to the Australian Obervatory and a view through the Bathhurst telescope at Charles Sturt University.
‘It’s excellent having people with such expertise teach the class without physically being here,’ says Cassim Bana from Aldersbrook Primary School in Wandsworth, London.
"It’s nice for the students to realise that it’s not just them learning, there are students all over the world doing the same, says Jacqui Johnston, Lead Teacher - KLP support, Eureka Primary School. "Videoconferencing takes students to places they wouldn’t normally get chance to visit and it’s nice to be taught by different people…..and of course it’s a cost effective way of bringing these experts to the classroom!"