We're putting a "fresh face" on fieldtrips: integrating Mobile Learning technologies offers students and teachers learning opportunities in the field they wouldn't otherwise have. Using portable PCs, video conferencing and a wireless connection to broadband Internet, sharing a fieldtrip to UNBSJ's Marine Biology research lab with students in, say, Edmonton Alberta, is becoming a reality.

As a first step, the Enrichment Class at Harry Miller Middle School, part of District 6 in Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada, spent 12 weeks working out many of the challenges inherent in this type of extended fieldtrip study.

Their curricular focus was a comparison of the creative process in both scientific research and Art making. Each of the 5 groups of 4 students took turns "leading" a fieldtrip and sharing it remotely with the rest of the class.These digital projects represent each group's efforts to analyze, edit and interpret the information they gathered.