Googles’ Tour Creator launched last spring and since then has become one of my favorite tools for history and geography classes. One of my few complaints about it was that while students could easily build virtual reality tours, it wasn’t always easy to share those tours with their teachers and classmates. That is about to change. Yesterday, Google announced that the updated version of the Expeditions Android app (iOS support is coming soon) will allow sharing of tours that students build in Tour Creator.

If you haven’t tried Tour Creator, take a look at the following tutorials that I created.

How to Use Google’s VR Tour Creator (The Basics)

How to Add Points of Interest in Tour Creator

How to Include Narration in Tour Creator

Applications for Education

In addition to making tours for history and geography lessons, students can use Tour Creator to build VR tours based on their favorite books. My detailed directions for that process are available here.