This presentation was delivered at the TESL Ontario conference in 2018. It details how instructors can get some creativity out of their students with the end goal of a formal presentation using Google Poly to generate a virtual tour.

1. Student Virtual Tours
John Allan

3. Our Route
• Virtual Tours - VR or AR?
• Google Expeditions
• Google Tours
• Creating a Tour
• Student tours
• Samples / resources
• Questions

4. Virtual reality (VR) implies a complete immersion
experience that shuts out the physical world through a
viewing device.

5. Augmented reality (AR) adds digital elements to a digital
view often by using the camera on a portable device.

6. Virtual Tours are a hybrid of AR and VR.
• Special viewers are not required
• Information appears on Google Street View panoramas

7. Have you used AR or VR in the classroom?

8. Have your students generated any AR or VR in your
language classes?

9. Inspiration
Field trips in Qatar

10. Virtual Fieldtrips
reduce
• Climate
• Transportation
• Scheduling
• Catering
• Permissions
• Budget
• Cultural issues

11. • inexpensive alternatives to real trips
• efficiency (transport, routes set, prompts)
• limited disruption to school day
• vast opportunities
Virtual field trips offer

12. Take learners on immersive experiences without leaving the classroom
The solution, Google Expeditions

13. Hardware
•Viewer
•Mobile devices
•Workstation

14. From Machu Picchu to Antarctica
to the International Space Station
Google Expeditions

15. Google
Expeditions
• Scenes
• Questions
• Points of interest

16. After many tours………

17. Inspiration
•Students can make these!

18. The solution, Google Tour Creator
……………………………….not Google Tour Builder

19. How To Guide

20. Google Tour Creator
Instructor Generated
https://poly.google.com/view/9t_a6zJyqmU

21. Google Tour Creator
Learner Generated
Neighbourhood Tour

22. Google Tour Creator
Learner Generated
https://poly.google.com/view/89QwLqFFviW

23. Process
1. Set up or open a Google Account
2. Identify a region or topic (amusement parks, capital cities, industries)
3. Start a Tour using the Google Tour Creator
4. Insert Tour title
5. Write a Tour description
6. Select a category
7. Locate, download, optimize and upload a title image (Cover photo)

24. Sample Tour

25. Process continued…
8. Search for their location on a digital map
9. Zoom into the area
10. Use Google Street View to locate existing panoramic views
11. Select a location by dragging the Pegman

26. Pegman

27. Google Tour Creator- editor

28. Process continued…
12. Add scene with a description (three required for our project)
13. Add at least four items on each scene with a description
14. Publish the Tour
15. Share their tour with a partner

29. Peer review
&
Corrections

30. Presentations

31. Students
•Create
•Collaborate
•Communicate
•Open vocabulary

32. Google Tours considerations
• Accessing Google accounts
• Attendance
• Browsers inconsistent
• Time to locate a suitable 360 Street view
• Student confidence in identifying items to include in each scene
• Mysterious movement of targets in the scenes (user error)

33. Student Projects
• https://poly.google.com/view/8rBMZovQwEU
• https://poly.google.com/view/89QwLqFFviW
• https://poly.google.com/view/eZJ4a6qvRB6
• https://poly.google.com/view/3tEEm9ZHdCr

34. Ideas for next term
• students to create their own 360 scenes
• post them to Google Street View
• use them as the scenes for their project
• Teacher generated tour for each academic course

35. • Google Tour Creator - Poly
https://vr.google.com/tourcreator
• How To Create a Virtual Tour
https://bit.ly/2KPRVcV
• Blog Post Virtual Field Trips
http://bit.ly/2y8oRKd
• Google Expeditions Quick Start Guide
http://bit.ly/2qc6C3d
• 6 Apps for VR Field Trips
http://bit.ly/2y3jAlJ
Relevant resources

36. Questions?

37. John Allan
mrpottz
Thank You?