Helen Acosta's Communication Pages
  • Home
  • About Helen

Travel Wiki

Picture
At the end of the semester you have 3 culminating experiences that make up your "final exam": Your movie presentation, this travel wiki and your final journal/oral report.  The wiki assignment, which is a written assignment that you will receive draft feedback on midway through the semester, will allow you complete control of the presentation of 1 element of your final exam. 

Guide for the Culturally Sensitive Traveler (wiki page)

Picture
credit: Michael Purcell, Holi Festival, 2011
Goal: Create a quick and simple guide for the culturally sensitive traveler.

1) Choose a location that you have never visited but that you would like to visit.
2) Think about what you've learned this semester then decide what a culturally sensitive traveler needs to know to have a good experience visiting the location.
3) Create a travel guide for the location of your choice.


Minimum required information:
  • How to pack & plan: exchange rates, costs of travel, what to bring, etc...
  • How to avoid offending: important laws, gestures, appropriate mannerisms, phrases, appropriate dress
  • Must see and do:  Places to stay, how to travel at the destination, best foods to try, where the locals hang out, ways to support the local economy while you're there...etc..
  • At least 3 sources of additional information at the bottom of the wikipage (linked to the sites)


Required formatting elements: 
  • Follow the template provided on the website (if you have trouble accessing the template please have Helen give you a hand)
  • Each piece of information from a source other than yourself must have an in-line link to the original source. If you are using direct quotes make this obvious to the reader.
  • Must 


The link to the wikispaces page: 

Wikispaces
Proudly powered by Weebly