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Tour Operator

Tour Operator Project

Overview
You are the owner operator of a tour business specializing in tours of foreign countries. Your company caters to young travelers that want to see historical sites and have a bit of adventure.

You have been asked to create a four day itinerary for your country of choice.

Project Elements (What you post)
Travel Itinerary (4 days) See Rubric for itinerary requirements.
Promotional voice thread for your itinerary.

Directions
Make use of your available resources to create a four day itinerary for your chosen destination. Be sure to cater to your customers and include pictures in your itinerary.
Create promotional voicethread for your destination

Here are some good sites that will help.
Lonely Planet
Yahoo Travel
Moon Books
STA Travel
Expedia- great site for Hotel Prices

Here is the Rubric for your itinerary

Itinerary
· Properly caters to customer base ­­­­­­­ ___ 5 pts
· Includes lodging with pricing ___ 5 pts
· Includes 2 restaurant reservations with descriptions ___ 10 pts
· Includes 2 outings such as snorkeling or sailing. ___ 5 pts
· Includes 3 museum or historical site visits. ___ 5 pts
· One description of a museum or historical site visit ___ 5 pts
· Accounts for all time logically ___ 5 pts

Total ____ of 40

Promotional Voicethread
· Includes 1 historical site description ___ 10 pts
· Includes 1 restaurant description ___ 10 pts
· Objective impression ___ 5 pts
· Photos used ___ 5 pts
· Creative ideas used ___ 5 pts
· At least 5 slides ___ 5 pts

Total ___ of 40

Channel One News

Is it important to read the news?

Channel One is a website that covers news for teenagers and attempts to make it relevant to you.
Take a look at the site here.

http://www.channelone.com/

Your Post
Section one

• After watching the December 3rd episode I would like you to further explore one of the news stories discussed.
• Find an article from a reputable news source and post a link to your blog. Comment on the article.
• Give your opinion on the topic you chose

Here is a list of the news stories covered

1. Teens Tried as Adults
2. Homeland Security Cuts
3. Clinton Standoff
4. Russia Votes
5. Teacher in Sudan
6. Record Sales on the Internet

Section Two

• Browse the site and post two links to things you found interesting or cool and link to it in your post. Provide a summary about what you linked to and why you liked it. here is my link

Example Summary:
I like to think that my geography is pretty good. Try this game I found on channel one called Geo Master. The best I did was three out of five try to beat me.
One of the countries I got was Albania.

Section 3

3. Watch these videos on North Korea and comment on your blog. Make sure you reference the video you are commenting on.

http://www.channelone.com/news/2002/10/30/north_korea/

The Stories Pictures Can Tell

Photographs are a powerful tools that may lead us to believe something that is not true. For example look at the photo below taken on 911.

The story goes that this photo was taken just before the plane hit the tower.
This photo was actually published by the associated press as a real photo. It has now been proven to be a altered picture.

So as you can see even professional journalists can be tricked.

on this post you will come up with short stories based on one picture.
It will be interesting to see the many different stories that we come up with

Here is an Example

The Lawn Chair Fans

Story: At the second annual lawn chair convention the crowd gathered around the inventors cabin. Invented in 1902 the lawn chair quickly caught on with the people of South Dakota. To celebrate the lawn chair thousands of revelers gather each year in Spearfish South Dakota to trade stories about lawn chairs and purchase new accessories for their lawn chairs. One such accessories is a TV tray that attaches to your lawn chair.

Your Post (Picture Stories)

Below you will find 3 pictures you will need to post each picture into your blog and write a short story for each.

Here are the three photos

Voice Thread Post

Now that we have finished our voicethread projects we can post them to our blogs. In addition to posting your voicethread project, please discuss the following.

1.Story Summary-Provide a brief summary of your story, similar to ones that you find on the back of books that entice you to read them. Your summary should intrigue me to watch your voicethread.

2. Technology Used- discuss the hardware and software used to create your voicethread.

§ Were there problems?

§ How did you fix your problems?

§ What piece of technology would have made this assignment easier?


3. Comments- provide feedback to your peers about their story.