Rick asked two people to tweet about the World Tour. #briarhill24hrworldtour
Started at a middle school but now at several middle and high schools in Lewisville ISD, Texas. Rick provided an overview of what the World Tour.
Rick introduced the 6 station helpers to the rest of the session attendees.
A conference participant video conferenced with two teachers in Texas; one middle school and one high school teacher. Lewisville uses Zoom for the video conference. Students apply to become part of the World Tour. A student meeting before embarking on the World Tour to clarify roles, expectations, organize and prepare. The Lewisville model is for 24 hours, but your school could do a shorter Tour. Six hours, 12 hours, you do you!
A parent meeting is essential because they have lots of questions about what the students will be doing for 24 hours. Yes, they can rest during the 24-hour period. Lewisville doesn't throw up obstacles that prevent students from participating such as GPA or attendance. Have games and other activities for stuff to do during down time or if there is a last minute cancellation.
Each video conference takes about 30 minutes which means there are about 20-25 minutes to rotate stations and prepare for the next conference call. 25 students who will participate and start preparation about 6 weeks before the event. Try to match students to location that they are interested in researching.
Started just with video conferencing with one other classroom in another location. Lewisville does this just before Spring Break. They start on Thursday night and into Friday. This year is Feb. 28-March 1, 2019. You are invited to join Lewisville on the 2019 World Tour!
Library layout: downtime games, separate areas for boys and girls to rest, social media station, cartographer station, "nexters" (the person who is next in line for the interviewing), video conference station, scribe station, blog station, breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks area, iMovie producer station. End call between all district schools to celebrate the end of the event.
Phase 1: Laying the Groundwork: set date, administrative approval, create blog to house information, teacher team, look for contacts, create Twitter hashtag, contact t-shirt company to begin design process.
Phase 2: Getting Your People: make school announcements, interesting meeting, application process, week to turn in application, selection process, have student team chosen 1 month before event to give time to prepare, congratulatory letter and contract form, second meeting with selected students. Global contacts (Skype in the Classroom), Google+ communities, Twitter, Who do you know?, National Parks/Museum Education directors, school alumni, contact schools/businesses/authors/scientists/military. Use Google sheet to keep track of roles and contacts.
Phase 3: Logistics: Food - all meals, snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner, supplies needed,
Phase 4: Preparation: meet with student 4 times to prepare (pulled during an advisory period), continuation of updating blog, students create Top 10 lists, students create current events presentation, Final Student Meeting, Media blitz
See Rick's presentation for the rest of the phases
Another idea would be to do a tour of a historical tour. Such as a 6 hour tour of Civil War sites. Each class period took a different site like Ford's Theatre, History Professor, etc, Or a World History class could video conference with the National World War II Museum in New Orleans in one-day different classes talk to different sites related to the topic.
For all the details visit http://tinyurl.com/LISDWorldTour
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