What follows are notes and to-do lists for the Travel and Tourism course developments here at Otago Polytechnic.
The course has 3 aspects to its development
- Content in the form of activities and lesson plans on Wikieducator
- Course blogs for the presentation of the activities and the communication around them
- Staff blogs for the establishment of online communication skills and industry expertise
Progress on Wiki
The structural design for the wiki is near complete, with usability and visual design commencing this week. Usability and visual design will include:
- Course pages will simplify navigation to resources and activities.
- Wording will be made personalised
- Graphics to enhance attractiveness and offer visual ques for quick reference
To do
- LB: Learning Objective, Resource and Activity subpages need to be created for a number of new course pages.
- HJ: Start writing activity pages for all of the learning objectives. Include aim, activity, resources.
- SC: Conceptualise visual style and graphics for the wiki
- HJ, SC and LB: Wiki pages for courses starting in February must be completed by mid January ready for use in staff training
Links
- Travel and Tourism main page
- Tour Guiding
- Travel Operations
- Conference and Events
- Cook Islands Tourism
- Sustainable Tourism
- Tourism Enterprises
- Adventure Tourism
- Wholesale Tour Operations
- Reception Services
Progress on course blogs
All course blogs have been set up on edublogs.org using the courses listed on the Travel and Tourism main wiki page. Graphics and banners are currently being developed for each. Course blogs must be ready to use before start of Febuary.
To do
- LB: Give Hillary admin access to all blogs
- LB and SC: When course pages on wiki are finished (check with HJ) copy content onto course blog about pages
- HJ: Focus on finishing the course pages in wiki
- SC: To develop a number of banners for each blog for consideration by staff
Links
- Conference and Events
- Tour guiding
- Travel operations
- Cook Islands Tourism
- Sustainable Tourism
- Tourism Enterprises
- Adventure Tourism
- Wholesale tour operations
- Reception services
Progress on staff blogs
4 staff have set up blogs on wordpress and are currently exploring the features and learning how to use them effectively. Some of the staff have set up RSS readers and are starting to check each others blogs and comment in. When blogs start to reach a competent standard, active networking will begin.
To do
- LB: Check in on blogs and offer support
- HJ: Provide incentives to staff blogging
- SE: Continue to support learning
- HJ: Coordinate intensive learning sessions throughouut January and February
Links
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December 15, 2007 at 9:02 am
Open Content, Otago Poly and WikiEducator.com « DEANZ
[…] Otago polytech — derekcx @ 9:02 am Leigh Blackhall has posted an update on his blog on the developments in their Travel and Tourism courses. They have an innovative IT policy down there!! “Otago Polytechnic has adopted a Creative […]
December 18, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Dale Bennett
Hi down there,
couldnt resist making a comment as it was so lovely to see this blog and to read familiar names again. Looks like you are still moving and shaking things at Otago Leigh. This is an excellent initiative.
I am Curriculum developing at NMIT and very happy living up here, but of course still miss the friends in Dunedin.
Christmas wishes to all
Cheers
Dale
October 20, 2008 at 1:37 pm
About to develop another model for open access education « Learn Online
[…] Jenkins is the program manager for the Diploma in Applied Travel and Tourism – otherwise known as Travel and Tourism (probably to become just Tourism soon). This course (for […]
March 2, 2009 at 2:51 am
Tourism and Travel
Thanks very useful post