Virtual Field Trips/Tours/History & More...

Virtual Field Trips/Tours/History & More...

Google Earth's Tour Builder - https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ - is an excellent tool to use with learners, within learning environments, to create virtual tours and explore places from all around the world. 

Tour Builder is accessible from a web browser, which makes it easy to add photos and videos to a sequence of locations on Earth, and then share links to these tours with others.

Educators, and/or Learners, can...

• design a tour of any location they want and  
• enrich their tour with multimedia data such as photographs, video clips and text.

Tour Builder can be used in a variety of learning environment projects.
e.g. learners can use it to create and narrate a story showcasing particular events and where they took place, places visited and much more.

Tour Builder can also be used for virtual field trips or for teaching history etc..

For inspirational ideas on how to use Tour Builder with learners, visit the Google Tour Gallery at https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/gallery# to see Tours produced by others.

To Create a Tour go to the first link above and...

• sign in with your Google Account
• Click on 'Create a tour' 
• Provide a name for the tour
• click on 'Create Tour'
• Provide a context to the tour by writing a short description in the 'Tell The Story' text-box
• Choose a type of story for the tour. It is set to 'Story 3D' by default but users can choose from the options available
• Pick a colour to mark the route on the map and
• Access 'Advanced Options' to customise the map style
• Click on 'Add location' and type in the locations you want to include on the tour.
  For each location selected, users can...
• add photos and videos,
• specify a start and end date and
• provide a short descriptive summary.

Once users have completed editing their tour...

• click on 'Share' button to...
• share it with others through a generated link or 
• keep it private.

NOTE: For now, Tour Builder is in beta and Google are excited to see what people build and do with it. They'd love to get feedback and ideas about how it could be a better storytelling tool.

If you give Tour Builder a try or have already used Tour Builder, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments. It would also be nice to see the end results of your, and/or your learner's efforts.

Thank you.