Teacher's Tour Instructional Design

Teacher's Interactive Tour

Where to start?

How about starting with the objective? The objective here is to allow an educator the opportunity to present an interactive experience to students. This experience will allow the students to experience and interact with various museums and relevant pieces of art. The teacher has also asked to have some type of live conversation with curators included; a place in which students an ask questions and gain insight to the actual location's collections and historical information.

It is through this teacher's request that this designer has considered some potentially valid options for deploying this unit's lessons with available and user friendly technologies. Simonson (2009) suggest, "Most likely, a variety of techniques will be needed to provide equivalent learning experiences for all students"

Let's Try Google to Start?

Deploy Google Apps
Maps
Groups
Earth
Presentations
Voice and Video chat
Docs and Forms

Applying Google apps in an instructional design allows the instructor to merge many interactive features to create a robust and interactive training or education session.
Take a look at following links that could support this content...

Google Maps and Earth applications:
Create Tours using Google apps
Embed a Museum tour in a Google Presentation, which when published contains a "chat feature". Add companion slides with associated art. Student audiences can participate and then collaborate via shared presentation and chat features.

Click here for an array of examples...

Support this presentation with Google video chat sessions with curators and you have a complete package with students who can tour and interact with media and each other.

Then Embed Your Content in a CSM

The content containing the features of this unit and the students themselves must be provided in a secure and user friendly interface. I suggest Edu20 the concept map illustrates the robust sytem and resources available.

This site has features that provide secure log-ons for students and a variety of resources. Communication is an important factor when evaluating LMSs because technology's primary purpose is to promote communication (Simonson, 2009.) Edu20 contains opportunities for discussion, chat, debate, and groups..in addition to assessment features which can contain and organize this unit. Especially useful is the interface. It's is very user friendly and provides for grading and assessments in a variety of formats including both rubrics and automated quizzes. The site allows for warehousing administrative information. It contains features that can support teacher's assessments and evaluations in addition to attendance and gradebook. Importantly Edu20 functionality can support a variety of media including podcasts, video, and host collaborative endeavors such as discussions, debates, and group work.

Who is using Edu 20?

Secondary to this, since most of the features of the unit are contained in the Google environment. Google groups are a optional level of organization that can contain the unit as a whole and this may then be embedded as either a resource or lesson component in the edu20 classes.

References
Simonson, M., Smalidino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2009). Teaching and Learning at a Distance;Foundations of Distance Education: Fourth Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.