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EdTrips: Digitally Manage your School Fieldtrips

9/24/2013

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EdTrips is a new site that helps teachers digitally manage their field trips.  You can use Edtrips to collect permission slips, manage payments, and see all of your field trip information in one place.  If you're interested in more information, here is the press release from their recent launch announcement:

Boston, MA, September 24, 2013 - EdTrips.com announced the launch of their easy-to-use platform to plan and manage educational travel from around the corner to around the world. EdTrips allows educators, schools, and community groups to create a beautiful webpage to manage their entire trip as easily as sending an email. 

Aimed at the multibillion-dollar educational travel market, the easily-used platform simplifies trip planning and organization, whether of one-day field trips or international tours, while reducing overhead.
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“EdTrips changes the way educational trips are organized,” says Laura Wallendal, COO and co-founder. “You upload itinerary, promote your trip, collect payments, upload permission forms – really manage your trip quickly all in one place,” she notes. “We created EdTrips because we saw how challenging organizing a trip can be. It’s still very much a paper-based process for most schools, and there’s a real need for something that makes it simple, keeps payments in one place, and allows educators to focus on learning, not logistics.” 

The platform will be free for educators to use. Like event-planning platforms, it will charge a modest fee based on trip ticket costs, in line with most other services. Trips with no cost will be entirely free. The service not only has a platform for registering attendees but also integrates marketing features such as reminder emails, to make it a truly efficient, modern channel for streamlining educational travel.
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EdTrips simplifies the travel process for all levels of educational program from K-12 and higher ed to adult education and community groups. The platform will also offer a database of pre-planned, standards-based field trips, as well as a platform for venues to promote themselves as field trip destinations.

“This will really revolutionize the way educators take their classes on trips,” says Amy Slate, Director of Educational Initiatives at Boston University and a leading expert on educational technology. “Education is becoming less bound by the classroom, more global, and more hands-on. 


Teachers on all levels are increasingly taking their students out of the classroom. EdTrips makes that whole process exponentially simpler. It really represents one of the most useful applications of technology to the teacher workload that I’ve seen in a long time. Teachers have more time to focus on the content, and do less administration. I’m very excited to see what EdTrips is doing,” she adds.

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In conclusion, EdTrips transforms educational travel by providing a simple platform for organizing and promoting trips, collecting payments, keeping track of travelers, and managing all event logistics. EdTrips enables teachers and group leaders to plan and manage school trips locally, nationally or internationally with their easy-to-use online platform, trip dashboard, forms and payment options. 

With 22,000 users registered and growing, EdTrips aims to be the foremost event registration platform for EDU.  


For more information about EdTrips, visit www.edtrips.com or follow on Facebook.

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