UNBOUNDED CLASSROOM
Unbounded Classroom has been launched!
What is Unbounded Classroom you may ask? Well, it is an idea that Mr. Arena and I had this summer. We wanted to make learning come alive and take our students around the globe. The problem was
how do we make this happen? Traveling is expensive and the paperwork to have students travel around the globe with two teachers is epically large.
We decided to write a grant to the Spartan Foundation for Best Buy’s Google Expedition VR Kit. The Spartan Foundation is a “non-profit community-based organization dedicated to enriching the educational experiences of the students and faculty of the ELANCO public schools.” The title of our grant was Unbounded Classroom! We wanted our students to know that the walls in this classroom do not confine our work to just the fourth-grade hallways of Blue Ball Elementary. It is important that our students understand that they live in a globally connected world and it is full of different cultures, people, and places. For many of our students, they will not have the opportunity to travel around the world. Through the use of VR, we can take our students to every continent without leaving the comfort of our classroom.
Mr. Arena and I wanted to connect our students globally through the use of our class and student blogs. Our students are currently connected with 21 different countries from around the world. We can now visit these countries virtually and gain a deeper understanding of our global friends and the cultures they live in. We are very thankful for the Spartan Foundation and the Eastern Lancaster County School District for providing us with the funds to globally connect our students.
We hope you come along on the VR journey with us. We would love it if you would visit our student blog pages and leave us a comment about our experiences traveling globally.
WOW!! They look so interested in the VR. I had the best time ever, I was interested to but it was amazing because I learned about the Amazon River without even going their!! Happy Blogging 🙂
Hi Mr. Geiman! I posted my VR Amazon experience. Please come and check it out. I had an awesome time with the VR headsets! URL: http://blog.elanco.org/mullins203/
Your Awesome Student,
Katie 🙂
I wrote about VR and added lot of detail. I also wrote about what it was like inside VR. Please come visit my blog and please leave a comment. Here is the link to the story. http://blog.elanco.org/eby41b/2017/01/11/see-think-wonder/
Hi! Please come visit my blog and leave a comment on my Amazing Amazon post about our Virtual Reality journey to the Amazon.
http://blog.elanco.org/stern338/2017/01/11/amazing-amazon/
Have a great day! 🙂
Hello World, please visit my blog. I wrote a story about using V.R to go to the Amazon River. Here is the link to the story
http://blog.elanco.org/custer547/2017/01/11/the-v-r/
Hello World!!! I have posted my VR experience post and I would like as many people as they can, I want them to come and comment on my post and blog!!! http://blog.elanco.org/krock950/2017/01/11/vr-experience-in-the-amazon/
Hello world this is a post that I wrote about my VR experience. My VR helped me know the Amazon river and Amazon rain forest better.
Please comment on this blog story on my blog the URL down below
http://blog.elanco.org/mansi681/2017/01/12/our-vr-experience/
I have my post up you go to my blog be the first one to see it athttp://blog.elanco.org/keeport016/.
Hey world come and comment on my adventures in the animal story at http://blog.elanco.org/brantlj/2017/01/11/adventures-in-the-amazon/.
Hi Mr. Geiman,
We were introduced via blog in Ms. Fordyce’s class from Stafford Elementary. I wish I could have those VR sets, especially since I love traveling. How much would they cost?
From, Ethan?
Hi Mr. Geiman,
I’ve also started a new weekly news series on my blog. If your students would like to visit my blog, they can do so at http://ethancaba14.edublogs.org.
From Ethan
Hi I wrote a really good Vr story on my blog if anyone wants to go and visit and leave a comment the can do so at http://blog.elanco.org/bernek725/ Thank you
Hey guys, want to see what my experience was like, visit the story at http://blog.elanco.org/martin3z3/2017/01/17/first-day-of-vr-the-amazon/ and leave a comment, thank you!
VR is awesome
Hi, please come to my blog and read about my VR experience!
http://blog.elanco.org/bryanbbz1/2017/01/12/my-vr-experience/
HELLO WORLD! My name is Courtney! I wrote a post about my V.R. experience I hope you can come and check it out:
http://blog.elanco.org/reicha283/2017/01/12/my-v-r-experience-to-the-amazon-rainforest/#comments
Have a cake filled day 🙂
WOW!!! That must have been so cool to try out VR.
Hi,my name is Sharanja and I am from Hayes Park Primary.
My favourite colour is purple and my favourite food is Fish and Chips.
My hobbies are swimming and art. I’m also such a book worm- I absouletly love mystery and fantasy!!
What’s your favourite genre book?
At school I am currently learning about the Vikings and about Longships in history.
My favourite book is called “Phoenix” by SF Said.
Oh wow.My name is Nihal and i am from Hayes park,England as you may know we are quadblogging and we are one of the four schools.This VR headset looks very intresting!