Virtual Vacation

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Virtual Vacation
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Introduction

• You graduated from college 3 years
• ago with a degree in Hotel Restaurant Travel
  Administration. You have spent the past few years
  working for a small company as a Travel Agent.
• You have grown tired of working for someone
  else and have contacted a few of your old
  classmates. You and your classmates have just
  decided to open your own travel agency.

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Task

• One of your first tasks for your new agency is
  to create a brochure advertising a vacation to a
  popular tourist destination. To create this
  brochure you will be using internet resources to
  find information on this destination.

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Getting started

• You will be working on this project for the next
  13 days. Each day you will be introduced to the
  days activity with a Short PowerPoint
• Lets get Started!!

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Day 1

• Come up with a travel agency name with your group
  and fill out the Agency Information Worksheet
• Decide on a country to research (Any European
  country works well for this project, China,
  Japan, South Korea, Most South American
  countries, larger African countries. Countries
  that DO NOT work well small countries, third
  world
• countries, Caribbean Islands, any
• country that the US is in conflict with)

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Day 2

• Watch Slideshow What is the Internet
• Watch Slideshow Evaluating WebPages
• Evaluate the site www.dhmo.org

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Day 3

• Watch the slide show Getting the most out of
  your Internet Searches
• View Trackstar track 354982
• Determine who will take on which research role
• Get research packets
• Begin research (You have
• through day 5 to complete)

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Day 4

• Research (You have
• through day 5 to complete)

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Day 5

• Research
• This is the last day to research in class

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Day 6

• Lesson on writing concise descriptive paragraphs
• Paragraph activity
• Begin writing (you have today through day 8 to
  complete)

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Day 7

• Continue writing paragraphs
• If done before the end of class self edit and
  revise
• If paragraphs are not typed begin typing
  (tomorrow will be your last class day to write)

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Day 8

• Continue writing paragraphs
• If done self edit
• Find a partner and peer edit
• If paragraphs are not typed begin typing
• THIS IS YOUR LAST DAY TO COMPLETE WRITING IN CLASS

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Day 9

• Review a sample brochure
• QA on sample
• Open Template
• Follow directions on handout
• At the end of class save the document naming it
  the name of the country, the term, and the
  period. (A student in A period during the 4th
  term studying Ireland would save their project as
  IRELAND4A)

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Day 10 11

• Open saved brochure
• Continue with instructions from creating a
  Brochure handout
• Be sure to save often

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Day 12

• Open Saved project
• Take handout Inserting Pictures into your
  Brochure
• Follow instructions and insert pictures
• Be sure to save often
• Check sample and rubric to make sure project is
  complete

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Day 13

• Open saved brochure
• Finish inserting pictures
• Proofread your brochure checking with the sample
  and rubric
• When confident the project is complete see the
  teacher to print
• Grade partners on participation using
  Participation rubric
• Hand in all parts of the project
• Research packets
• Group Participation Rubric
• Draft of writing
• Agency Information Work Sheet
• Any Website evaluations done
• Brochure