TramLine.com
Title
Tramline - the Virtual Field Trips Company, Home of TourMaker Software
Description
Tramline developed TourMaker© software back in 1996. The company was founded by a group of individuals dedicated to creating a tool for education and training that could be used to help to organize the chaos of the Web.
Over the years TourMaker© has earned a reputation as the best tool for creating Virtual Field Trips and Web Tours, providing a host of navigation and orientation aids absent in other field trip formats.
In 1997, Virtual Field Trips Site came into existence and over time, virtual field trips were created and added by educators. This site was developed as a free resource to K-12 educators everywhere. Teacher's resources were added, and trips were age-specific. In the late 1990's, Tramline received a grant from AT&T to create another educational site. This was Virtual Blackboard. Virtual Blackboard enabled Tramline to expand beyond science-related topics, and we then had social studies, math, and literature virtual field trips. Over time, the multiple sites were merged to ease upkeep and maintenance, and to provide one high quality source of information and resources for using and creating virtual field trips.