Virtual Tours of Educational Environments
Suitable for virtual tours of colleges, universities, campus buildings, student accommodation, sports centres, halls, venues and for hire as well as crime scenes.
With so much information on courses and colleges available on the Internet, students are finding it difficult to narrow down their choices. Virtual tours are very green saving greatly on time, travel and expenditure. They are also realistic and persuasive. The Survey above has revealed a specific student requirement. Virtual tours will act as a marketing tool to ensure that colleges reach the requisite student numbers.
Consider the production of a short introductory video to your Educational establishment. This can be uploaded to YouTube™ or Google™ and included in the virtual tour. Innovative features like this can go through the social networking sites such as Facebook(65M users) or MySpace(61M users) like wild fire with the whole process ending up as a prime example of eMarketing success; something that no handbook or brochure could ever hope to emulate.
Here are some examples of more features that can be included.
- A tailored help screen together with the institution's logo;
- Self-guided navigational elements;
- An interactive floor plan or an area map containing clickable areas to visit other virtual tours or web information;
- An interactive map button taking the visitor straight to Google™ maps with the location of the venue, together with details on how to get there;
- An interactive web button taking the visitor to a list of facilities and information on hiring a venue;
- Location labels to help students and staff to familiarise themselves with a venue prior to visiting;
- Interactive buttons which link to photographic details with text;
- Many customised buttons could be placed on the screen inside the tour. For example, add a web button to the Library catalogue;
- Background MP3 music or commentary can accompany the whole tour.
Please review the section on Virtual Tours for more ideas.