Looking around – at college tours and electronic field trips

Posted by Wendy K. Kleinman
on August 28, 2007M at 4:29 pm

I’m about to start working on a story on tips for high school students, and their parents, who are scouting out colleges. One of the places I visited back when I made campus visits was The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Though that’s not where I decided to go, I did love the campus – and the town.

For grade-school teachers who want to give their students a chance to visit Colonial Williamsburg without the cost and red tape of taking a class on a 1,300-mile field trip, subscriptions are available for “electronic” field trips to the historical grounds.

The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence has more than 130 Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips to award to fifth- and eighth-grade teachers at Oklahoma public schools. Students can phone-in questions to town historians and participate in online activities that connect them with students in other states.

For more information and an application, visit www.ofe.org.

And if you’re a student or parent making the college-tour circuit now, or if you’ve been-there-done-that and have tips for others, send an e-mail to wkleinman@oklahoman.com and share your experiences with me. They may just make the paper at a future date.

Wendy K. Kleinman
Education Reporter



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COLLEGE, teachers, travel

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