Timeline

Timeline:

Day 1:
 * Discuss assignment.
 * Students choose partners/ Teacher pairs groups of partners.
 * Groups choose cities.
 * Teacher demonstrates how to set up wikispace for assignment.
 * Groups set up wiki with username/password.

Day 2:
 * Each student chooses a topic relating to city as their focus (weather, food, history, tourism).
 * Students begin researching city online and taking notes for future use.
 * Teacher demonstrates how to use citationmachine.net for students to use when citing sources to avoid plagarism.
 * Discuss podcast assignment.

Day 3-5:
 * Students gather sources, take notes, create podcast scripts and record video podcasts using flipcam.

Day 6:
 * Discuss creating an itinerary.
 * With groups, students research tourist sites and create hypothetical itinearies for a trip to their city.

Day 7-8:
 * Discuss creating a trip budget.
 * Teacher demonstrates how to use Excel.
 * Groups research costs for flights, hotels. rental cars, food, and tourist attractions before creating a budget for their trip.

Day 9:
 * Discuss blogging and the dangers associated with online journaling. (password protection, personal information, etc)
 * Each student writes a blog entry about one day of their "trip" using [|www.blogger.com]

Day 10-12:
 * Discuss wikipage assignment.
 * Students continue researching info about their cities to use when creating their travel website (wiki).
 * Students must upload pictures, videos, files, podcasts, etc. to wiki.

Day 13:
 * Travel Agency Day: The classroom will be turned into a travel agency and groups will present their projects.