Australia and Oceania


Want to know more about traveling to Australia and Oceania? Then this is your site. This page was developed to help direct and help you with the Infomercial Video Project. By using these sources, your project will be more realistic and interesting.
The Task
This project involves
1) Making a detailed map; researching and entering some "quick-facts"; making a colorful poster full of pictures and producing an Infomercial Video of the assigned area.
2) This assignment is a cooperative learning assignment in which all members take an ACTIVE participant role.
3) Remember... You are a travel agent selling a Travel package to earn MONEY!
4) You will need to assign a "president" of your travel agency & the rest of the members are "employees"
5) All parts of this project require a lot of creativity. You are trying to entice the "customers" to buy your travel package and not the Competition's!!
6) Make a Infomercial video to show to the "customers".
Resources
Here are three helpful Internet sites for researching some useful and interesting information for the research portion of this project:
  • City Net--Planning a trip? Visit cities on the Net, view current maps, and find out what sites to see in each city.
  • Fodors--One of the most useful travel sites out there for basic, hard information and factual advice.
  • Virtual Tourist--A GOOD starting point for your research.
    The Process
    To accomplish the task, make sure you go through each of these steps:
    1) Decide on a name for your travel agency
    2) Decide on a "President". This person is the one I will be checking with to see how your group is doing.
    3)Then assign the hands-on tasks that need to be done in order to start producing the Infomercial
    4)Research, type, print & produce the hands-on portion of the project.
    5)Write, produce and perform the video portion of the project.
    Learning Advice
    Here is a checklist of things needed to be done in order to successfully complete this project:
  • Assign a hands-on duty for each member of the group.
  • Complete these hands-on project by May 16.
  • Write a script for your video, assigning roles to do this "Informercial" successfully.
  • Accumulate and "props" needed to make your video realistic & interesting.
  • Video tape and edit your mini-commercial.
    Conclusion and Assessment
    After each travel agency has shown the "customers" their Infomercial, there will be a "voting" for the best travel package by purchasing that package with your earned "BIG BUCKS" (which will be assigned according to the current grade your have in World Studies--A's with the most money and F's with the least money)
    Search Sites
    Use these search tools for keyword searching.
    Documentation
    For instructions on documenting Internet sources, refer to Citing Internet resources.
    Created by Ms. Kvale and Mr. McCright
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