Virtual Tour

I watched Kerry, Alexandra, and Maria's tours. I think the upside to implementing a virtual tour in an elementary school classroom is that students will get to see and experience things they might otherwise never have the opportunity to. They can learn about information about specific places in the world that they usually wouldn't. I think the downside to a virtual tour is that google earth only gives you a rough idea of what an area looks like. What I mean is the satellite images are not detailed or give you very much to look at. The features of google earth allow you to see more but google earth itself doesn't make natural features look very cool. Also creating a virtual tour can be a little time consuming at first when you don't know what you're doing so it might be difficult for a beginning teacher to find the time.