Google Street View is great for snooping around places you’ve never been to but did you know that you can sail down the Amazon, explore the Great Barrier Reef, look inside the Iwame Silver Mine, see Scott’s hut in Antarctica or wander around Stone Henge?
Other exciting images are this shipwreck off the coast of Sudan
Images courtesy of Google Maps
And the remains of this 2,000 year old Roman Villa.
Image courtesy of Google Maps
For more info check out these blogs by Mashable; Amazing discoveries and Street view .
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This is especially good because a teacher cannot take learners on field trips in every subject every term! So whilst you may take learners, say, to the Museum of Welsh Life as pasrt of a history topic, you can still take them on virtual geography, science and other field trips online! Also, being able to show them places, people and things that are beyond the scope of regular field trips e.g. The Great Barrier Reef, is a huge boon.
A good methodological resource for the teachers, because they can explain so much of theoretical form, since of visual form the contents of the subjects. A teacher of geography can explain rivers, seas, mountains, valleys, cities of interest and in turn the pupils podran observe them of visual form.
The pupils need to be able to learn the things seeing them, everything is learned better if you see it and familiarize yourself with him.