While planning a physical trip to foreign countries in order to take your entire school with on a virtual trip, the travel team has the following responsibilities

Pre-Trip

Travel itinerary and tickets, visas, immunizations
Journey Theme and connection to previous and future trips
Creation, design and [...]

Presenter: Johanna Riddle
Imagine my surprise when I read FETC’s program the following:
Want to keep your students learning through the summer? Come take a look at the way one media specialist used technology to stay connected with her elementary students on her journey through China. Students continued their spring studies of China well into summer through [...]

Thanks to Ewan McIntosh and his blog post “2007 and Travels in Review” on EduBlogs, I found the following fun site “Great Circle Map“.
Enter the airport codes or city names that you have traveled to and it will give you an good amount of interesting facts: Latitude, Longitude, Initial Heading Direction and miles or [...]

I am browsing through the book by Patricia Schultz “1000 Places to see before you die- A Traveler’s Life List”. As I am skimming through then book’s table of content, I am immediately taken back by noticing how short the Latin America chapter is (which includes Mexico, ALL of Central and South America). My [...]

Crosspost from Egypt Blog .

While the boat is waking slowly to life, I am enjoying once again the quiet deck. Looking out on the West side of the boat, there are about 30+ horse carriages lined up in front of the boat�s exit. They are waiting for the passengers to get off and take them [...]

Crosspost from Egypt Blog .
It has been amazing how many languages and people from different countries have been surrounding us. Egypt is a country that attracts visitors from all over the world. Tour guides have told us that there are mainly coming from Russia and Spain, but we have seen so many different nationalities [...]

Crosspost from Egypt Blog
from Sunday, September 30th
On board of the Sonesta Moon Godess
We are up a little earlier than the wakeup call from the boat. Enough time to enjoy some quiet reflection on the deck. We are still docked in Aswan, ready for a morning of sightseeing before we leave to ride �down� the Nile [...]

If you have been following my blog for a year, you know that in 2006 I traveled to China and connected with my students through a blog , photos , videos, a travel bear and an Amazing Race Competition. Only four days left until a fellow teacher and I are getting on a plane to [...]

Well, it is official. My school has made reservation for me and a colleague to fly to China in December. I believe I mentioned before in a post, that our school is wanting to take a more global approach to education. Mainly due to the President’s National Security Language Initiative and its call for study [...]

Since I will be travelling back home to Argentina this summer, I am planning to create a travel blog to stay in touch with my students. I’ll try to bring the world a little closer by trying to establish a connection for them and making the exotic a little bit familiar.
So look out for the [...]