Welcome to
The Virtual Travel Agency
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The
Virtual Travel Agency serves the members of the Northern Michigan Electronic
Consortium (NMEC). This includes schools in COOR
Intermediate School District, |
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Peer 2 Peer Projects NEW 2008 ! Visit this new portal for all collaborations, including Read Around the Planet, MysteryQuests, Megaconference and more. It also includes help documents for teachers for all events. Previous ITV Collaboration Virtual Field Trips Search for VFTs - see search box below |
About Us The Virtual Travel
Agency was formed to assist the twelve school districts of the Northern
Michigan Electronic Consortium (NMEC) in developing, marketing and
utilizing The virtual travel agent works with each to supply resources to teachers such as interactive television guidelines, scheduling, funding, training, and ITV technical support. A catalog was developed and published called, "The Virtual Field Trip Travel Guide". Although it was a valuable resource, it was quickly outdated as soon as it was published! Therefore, we now recommend that you use the searchable database sponsered by TWICE (Two Way Interactive Connections in Education) and Berrian County ISD. A newsletter is emailed to serve as an additional video conferencing
resource to everyone in the consortium. Videoconferencing News subscribers
are notified of special events, collaboration opportunities, new programs,
and news , etc. The newsletter is
also intended to be used to develop ideas |
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video
conferencing. The goal is to make this cutting edge technology easier
for teachers, students and schedulers to blend with the curriculum and
professional development. NMEC centralized the operation and made it possible
for the arrangements to be made by one person, the virtual travel agent.
for
programs between schools, also known as