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Distance Learning > Videoconferencing Field Trips > Finding your trip

Listings of field trips have been researched and logged into resource guides by several Intermediate School Districts. There are links here to those sources, which include information about hundreds of possible sites, the costs involved, and other leads for interesting programming. Additionally, the Berrien County ISD links field trip activities to Michigan Curriculum Standards. The Van Buren ISD can connect you to these sites using the same technology as that used in Berrien County.

Be sure, before you set any dates in your schedule with your classes to have us: 1) test with the location to be sure that technically everything goes OK. 2) Discuss date and time schedules with the Field Trip Providers, to come up with firm times and locations 3) Determine costs for the field trip, including line charges, bridge charges, possible technical support charges, and submit it to your administration for approval.

Before You Make a Firm Date with a Fieldtrip Provider, We Need to Test our Networks, and Arrange for Payment and Approval!!!
These Things Don’t Happen Overnight!

Here are some links to use to search for fieldtrips on a wide variety of subjects:

http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/dl/fieldtrips.htm	Berrien County Intermediate School District information on Video Conferencing Field Trips
http://www.twice.cc/fieldtrips.html	Two Way Interactive Connections in Education, an organization with the goal of unifying similar sites who provide two way interactive programming at all levels.
http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/dl/faq.htm	Shared Classes Frequently Asked Questions from Berrien County ISD.
http://www.uwtvproduction.com/convergence.html	The Videoconference Zone
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/home.html http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/ideas.html http://www.kn.pacbell.com/index.html	Links to Pacific Bell's Website regarding videoconferencing
http://dl.remc11.k12.mi.us/curriculum/	Berrien County ISD website for videoconferencing