The ViSH (http://vishub.org) is a social site for sharing and creating educational resources, called eExcursions.
The name eExcursion is a metaphor for a virtual excursion where you perform virtual visits on a specific scientific topic. Virtual visits or eExcursions are thus well designed visual compositions or mash-ups of public multimedia objects coming from the Internet, which can be viewed on a browser, but also projected in a physical or in the virtual classroom of the ViSH.
eExcursions can be of different lengths and follow a variety of pedagogical approaches. If you add any interactive material, such as a game or a quizz it can make it more engaging for your students.
Minimum requirements:
– Introduction to the topic
– Main part of the excursion: can include any type of material, such as videos, images, remote lab access, 3D animation, Webcam; interactive elements are encouraged
– Conclusion: can again include different elements; it should close the topic; suggested elements are a quizz, a collection of links to additional materials
Here are two examples of popular excursions:
Iberian Lynx: http://vishub.org/excursions/55
Outerspace: http://vishub.org/excursions/56