Daycare virtual tours: Daycare Center Virtual Tour | The Learning Experience

Why take a daycare tour

1. Busy parents can view the interactive tour experience below, any time day or night.
2. Search by Zip to find a center near you to take a tour in-person or on Zoom.
3. Let us show you what we’re learning in our classrooms today!

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Before you take a daycare tour

1. Download a child care checklist or similar document to help organize the questions you’d like to cover at your visit
2. Use a center locator to be sure you have the correct address if you have an in-person visit
3. Read parent testimonials about what child care is like from their point of view
4. Test your computer or phone’s connection if you have a Zoom visit

Before visiting a daycare, a parent should communicate with the daycare facility and arrange a time to visit. It is unlikely that a daycare facility will allow surprise visits from adults. If the daycare does allow an adult to enter the area of the daycare where children are being cared for without a prior appointment, this should be considered a serious problem with the daycare. An exception is during an open house or other child care event, when parents are encouraged to visit. If the parent only wants to make sure the daycare is physically safe and environmentally age-appropriate, the visit can occur outside of the hours when children are being cared for. However, in order to see how the caregivers interact with the children in their care, it is valuable to visit during operating hours. 

A parent that is looking for child care has many sources to mine for information about local daycares.  Online reviews, testimonials from parents,independent audits, even government licensing information are all critical sources of data for a conscientious parent. After a parent has narrowed down their list of child care centers, they should make sure to visit the daycare. Nothing can replace a first-hand appraisal, and a daycare tour or daycare visit could reveal things that might not show up in initial research

When a parent feels ready to visit a daycare center, they should find a center to schedule a daycare tour or look for information open houses or other daycare events. A parent should not simply show up to a daycare center and expect to get in unaccompanied. This would be a serious safety issue and if a daycare allows an adult to simply arrive and enter the premises alone, the parent should not consider having their child cared for at that location.

How a tour shows whether it is safe to send your baby to daycare

Whether you do a virtual or in-person tour, be sure to cover all health and safety concerns you have. Be sure to cover day-to-day questions about centers’ policies around check-in and check-out, visits from parents and any enhanced COVID-19 health and safety protocols. You should also ask to see all indoor and outdoor learning spaces where your child will spend time. Are there age-appropriate learning spaces for all children? 

What do children do at daycare?

On a daycare tour you should get a good sense of what a typical day looks like for the children and teachers. Is there music for child development? Is there a place for pretend play? Does the staff spend time reading to babies? 

Understanding daycare standards and regulations

A parent should familiarize themselves with their state and local child care regulations before conducting a daycare tour. Many of these regulations can be found online through government websites. The web portals may also include licensing and inspection information, so a parent making a daycare comparison can determine whether a daycare center is responsible about following child care regulations.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) publishes guidelines of best practices in child care. The guidelines published by the NAEYC are based on extensive research into child development. A parent can look into the guidelines for the age group their child falls into and become familiar with what is considered the best standards of care for their child.

Good signs on a daycare tour

There are some good things that should pop out for a parent on a daycare tour. Parents should look for things like: no sharp corners; absent or covered power outlets; and no stairs or steep curbs. These are all signs that the facility is making sure to child-proof the physical environment. The place should be clean but not smell of cleaning solutions like bleach or turpentine, as the vapors from harsh chemicals can irritate a child’s airways.

Another easy thing to look for when visiting a daycare center is seasonal decorations. Child development experts recommend a stable day-to-day environment with some variation. The stability provides a sense of predictability and security, while the changes offer stimulation and let the child learn how to respond to new things. Seasonal decorations, a weather board, birthday celebrations, and other items are a good indication that the daycare makes sure to provide variation for the children.

If the daycare tour occurs while children are being cared for, take notice of group sizes and caregiver to child ratios. Every age group has a different ideal group size, and the range of acceptable caregiver-to-child ratios also differs. Generally, as children grow, they benefit from having more children their own age around them. The daycare’s caregiver-to-child ratio should reflect this fact. A parent should be familiar with the NAEYC guidelines for their child’s age before conducting a daycare tour.

Red flags on daycare tours

A parent should feel comfortable ruling out a daycare center based on a gut feeling alone, but there are also obvious red flags to look for. If there are exposed outlets, stairs or large drops that aren’t cordoned off, or other obvious dangers to young children, the parent should not choose that daycare.

A parent should be comfortable with how clean the daycare is when they visit. Obviously young children can create a mess quickly, but problems that indicate chronic lack of cleaning, like mold or spoiled food, are clear signs that there are problems at that daycare.

Any child care center than can’t explain hiring practices or teacher training in layman’s terms may be a red flag. Be sure to get an understanding how daycare teachers are hired and inspired to do their best work each and every day. Centers that do not invest in teachers may see high turnover rates which can be disruptive when children have to learn how to say goodbye to a teacher they have bonded with.

How to find the best daycare for your family

Every family is different, so there’s no one-size fits all approach to finding the right daycare. Understanding how to interview a daycare provider can help make a daycare tour as productive as possible as you search for the right child care solution.

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360° Virtual Business Tours®  offers complete virtual tours for:

• Daycare centers
• Kid gyms
• Kid craft centers, and;
• Even private and public schools

A virtual tour combines 360° panoramic rotating images to provide a complete view of a space. Potential customers can view your space on their smartphone, tablet, or desktop.

See more on: what is a virtual tour?

A 360° Virtual Tour provides additional visibility for your daycare center or school.

Parents are able to “get a feel” for your space without distributions to their busy schedules. Virtual tours can include narration or points of interest.

Parents Want to Know How Safe Your School is

Potty-training parents will be interested to see how close restrooms are to the classroom. Virtual tours can show if a school has classroom doors or joint open-concept rooms. Highlight your classroom hand-washing stations. Parents will be pleasantly surprised to view your indoor gym for kids to enjoy during inclement weather.

Professional Photos

Our team of professional photographers are certified to take photos on behalf of Google. As a result, we are able to upload your virtual tour to Google Maps. Photographs will also appear on the Google Local page for your business. Complimentary still photos accompany the tour and provide parents more insight into your location.

Furthermore, parents are more likely to engage with a daycare or child-based business that includes a virtual tour. According to Google Maps, businesses with street view and virtual tours have positive results.

• Businesses with registered search listings are 94% more likely to be viewed as reputable
• Generate twice as much interest by adding photos and a virtual tour to your listing
• Consumer map searches result in 41% continuing for an on-site visit
• Full search listings, with 360° Virtual Business Tours® photos and tours, seem as reputable 94% of the time

Equally important is that you own the photos. There are no renewal or hosting fees. You are also provided with a zip file of all your panoramic photos to be used for additional marketing efforts.

Parents complete thorough research before trusting you with their children. Hence, it is vital that you make a great first impression. Use the panoramic photos provided by 360° Virtual Business Tours® to utilize the Facebook 360 photos feature. Parents can take a 360 spin around the nursery room, art classroom, or gym area.

Additionally, use your photos to create an animated GIF of your virtual tour. Animated GIFs for are great for posting on your Instagram and Twitter business pages.

Follow our detailed instructions to share your entire tour on Facebook or to create GIFs.

Photographing your Facility

Our photographers work around your schedule and aim to be as inconspicuous as possible. Photoshoots do not require special lighting, so it is possible to shoot your virtual tour in the evening or weekends when your facility is closed. And don’t worry, most photoshoots only take about an hour.

Most 360° virtual tours focus on the main areas of your business where children will play

We can avoid your business office or staff breakroom. The goal of the tour is to illustrate to parents where their children will be spending their time.

The safety of children visiting your facility is paramount to us. We are parents as well. With this in mind, children will NEVER appear in your 360° virtual tour. If the photoshoot occurs when children are present, the images will have their faces blurred out.

Have any questions? Call us at 678-542-4394. We would love to visit your daycare center, school, or art studio to discuss how virtual tours can help your business.

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Virtual tour of the kindergarten “Berezhok”. Book a virtual tour

Sometimes a virtual tour needs to be done not just quickly, but very quickly. This is exactly what happened in the kindergarten “Berezhok” in the Bogorodsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The district had to present its achievements in the competition. Among the socially significant projects was a new modern kindergarten in a rapidly developing microdistrict. With the help of a virtual tour, the management intended to give guests the opportunity to take a remote tour of the facility.

Kindergarten Virtual Tour

Understandable when a similar product is ordered by a museum, hotel, restaurant or similar establishment. In this case, 3D panoramas allow you to draw the attention of a potential client to a cultural or business object. Schools are also relatively clear. A virtual tour of the school is a great gift for both graduates and staff. Yes, and colleagues with higher authorities will appreciate the commitment of the school management to new technologies.

But why a virtual tour for a kindergarten? We asked ourselves this question every time we received such orders. This is not the first time we have heard requests for such a service. The most curious thing is that these requests do not even come from the educational institutions themselves, but from the education department of the Bogorodsky district. This area in the Nizhny Novgorod region is our main customer for virtual tours of educational institutions.

We have been cooperating for so long that we can afford some curiosity and the question “why?”

The answer turned out to be very simple and expected. The leadership of the district education department strives to use all available means to show their institutions from the best side. If there is an exhibition, a seminar on the exchange of experience, training courses – you can speak at the proper level by presenting a virtual tour of your institution to the audience.

If you do this on an interactive whiteboard, the presentation will look quite impressive. Not to mention the effect that walks in virtual reality in special VR glasses have on educators. During demonstrations like this, some educators-teachers-principals put on VR goggles for the first time in their lives. It is not surprising that this particular speech is then hotly discussed among colleagues and remembered for a long time.

Organizational aspects of shooting a virtual tour of a kindergarten or school

You can’t just take a smartphone, even the most modern one, and shoot the right material to create 3D panoramas. Of course, you can use special panoramic cameras that really allow you to shoot a panorama of 360×180 degrees – that is, a full sphere. But the quality of such shots, especially when shooting indoors with low light, leaves much to be desired.

Only professional equipment allows you to get high-quality high-resolution images, and specialized software allows you to assemble a virtual tour with elements such as navigation menus, control buttons, object map, video integration with the LivePano function, photo galleries, snow-rain effects, pop-up photos, texts, voice-overs, and even game elements in virtual reality.

It is these factors, plus punctuality and work with official contracts, that allow our studio to receive regular orders and travel from site to site throughout the country.

Any object, including a kindergarten, must be prepared for panoramic shooting in advance. All lamps in all rooms must be on, the floors must be washed, the blinds closed, the furniture arranged, and all unnecessary interior elements removed. In this case, it takes only five minutes to shoot one panorama.

True, there are special cases. Shooting time may increase significantly if the room is not well lit. And not because most of the lamps do not burn. It’s just that there are such special rooms where the light should be dimmed by definition.

For example, in the kindergarten “Berezhok”, among other things, I had to rent a room for psychological relief. The upper lamps did not burn there, but the “stars” shone, the “fire” burned, lightning flashed from time to time. All this, combined with suitable music, allows you to conduct classes with kids who need, for example, to calm down a little after outdoor games. If you turn on the light when shooting, then the natural atmosphere of the office will be lost for the viewer.

While shooting in an ordinary well-lit room requires an exposure of about 1 second, in the psychological relief room each frame was exposed for 6-8 seconds. Since there are 38 frames in each panorama, the shooting of the cabinet lasted much longer than usual. But the result was exactly what the customer expected.

Moving from room to room, we choose a suitable shooting point. The camera should be placed so that it is not reflected in mirrors or glass showcases, and if possible does not cast a shadow. You can’t just walk into an office and start filming from any random location. In addition to the need to avoid reflections and shadows, the camera position is chosen so that when viewing, you can see all the most important things in the office. Sometimes we have to make two or more panoramas if we are dealing with large halls and or rooms with a complex configuration.

The footage is processed in the studio. Mastering is also performed here – that is, the assembly of the final virtual tour. At this time, from individual spherical panoramas, a finished product is obtained with transitions, menus and other elements that have already been mentioned above.

The finished product is placed in the “Portfolio” section of our website. The customer can evaluate it and express wishes.

This project took 2 days to complete.

We invite you to watch virtual tour of the kindergarten “Berezhok” . First of all, it will be of interest to employees, parents of children who attend this preschool institution. Colleagues from other institutions will be able to see how things are going with their neighbors and learn some interesting ideas.

It is especially interesting to watch virtual tours with virtual reality glasses. But if you don’t have them, a regular computer monitor will do. We wish you a pleasant viewing.

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