Virtual Tours; The Perfect Way To Go Out Without Going Out

Virtual Tours; The Perfect Way To Go Out Without Going Out

We live in a modern era of technological developments where the online world has gained immense importance. You can do anything and everything online from taking classes to virtual tours of museums, zoos, and historical sights. 

The recent Coronavirus Pandemic has forced everyone to quarantine in their homes, rendering the wonders of the world inaccessible to the masses. However, phenomenal technological advancement has made virtual tours a feasible option. You can explore the ends of the earth from the comfort of your couch. 

Virtual Tours At Home

Parents can take advantage of a live zoo stream to amuse children in a way that provides entertainment as well as enables kids to observe how different animals behave. Not only is it a way to save money, but it is also a productive method to keep your child engaged for an extended period.

You can enlighten your kids with the knowledge of the vast universe of stars at an online Planetarium or enrich young minds with the creativity of art exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum of Arts.

We Are Teachers has a comprehensive list of fun and exciting virtual tours for kids to enjoy. When talking about the wonders of the online Planetarium, they mention: “Through Star Atlas, kids can explore over 60,000 stars, locate planets, and watch sunrises and solar eclipses. If you enter your location, you can see all the constellations that are visible in the night sky in your corner of the world.”

Academic Application of Virtual Tours

Teachers can organize virtual field trips for their students to enjoy as a communal activity. Virtual tours can be an excellent medium to accommodate distance learning and introduce students to different cultures and lifestyles. Knowledge and understanding of diversified traditions and values give learners the ability to accept and appreciate different viewpoints and can help foster empathy.

Students can utilize virtual college tours to examine different universities all over the globe. Using virtual tours can help students decide where to apply and, ultimately, where to enroll without the hassle of traveling around the world. Visiting several colleges, exploring their classrooms and recreational facilities, learning about their faculty, and familiarizing themselves with the campus without ever leaving home!

Students with disabilities or students who cannot afford big-ticket trips are often left out of school field trips altogether. We know this is not the right thing to do. We know this should not happen, but let’s be clear; it is what happens more often than not. When we think about access or inaccessibility to travel and experiences, this form of exclusion is not limited to students with mobility disabilities.

Many students are blocked from having the same experiences as their peers because of invisible disabilities like speech and processing disorders, digestive disorders, and even allergies and asthma. That’s right! Whenever schools take students off-site, liability is measured and discussed. Plans have to put into play for students with health and medical needs. Once liabilities are measured, the outcome often means students with disabilities and low-income students are left out of travel-based learning, sometimes missing entire units of knowledge, widening the opportunity gap, learning gap, and achievement gap.

Schools could provide more equitable opportunities to students by making more of an effort to include ALL students in travel-based learning, not just some. Exploring virtual tours is one way to make travel-based education more inclusive.

Business Benefits:

The benefits of virtual tours are endless. Businesses can use these cyber trips to their advantage too. A Real Estate Agent can set up an online open house, fashion designers can display their clothing lines, and different businesses can showcase their operations for customers and job applicants to observe. 

Technology has a great deal of untapped potential.

We must exploit these awe-inspiring innovations to their maximum potential to make efficient use of our time, money, and resources.

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Are you interested in viewing some virtual tours right now? Check out YouTube playlist below, we continue to add virtual tours to this playlist.