Progress

Yesterday two members of the travel and tourism team,(at out team meeting) Lynn and Sue bought up the possibility of creating an elective which would allow students to complete the external City & Guilds examination attached to our other programme (which we are no running next year). Their thinking behind this was that students would have the opportunity to gain an international qualification. This would be another point of difference for us from other providers and definetly should be looked into. Which we will do.

Leigh, Karen and I are having a skypecast today to discuss our progress.

Wikieducator

Refer to the wikieducator link to the tour guiding page and below are the five unit standard titles we have included for ease of maintenance and updating, collaboration with other institutions and international networking and Leigh's contribution is to add free and open learning for developing countries.

How visitors learn from interpretation, and evaluate interpretive techniques
Prepare and implement an interpretation plan for tourist attractions, activities and events
Manage health and safety in a tourism context
Demonstrate leadership skills in a tour context
Knowledge of visitor interpretation
Retrieved from "http://wikieducator.org/Tour_Guiding"

New Developer

I am really excited about taking on a new developer to help with the tour guiding elective in DATT.

Karen Jackson who is presently working as a tour guide in Queenstown has agreed to do some work for us. Just to be able to tap into her past and present practical experience is great. Welcome Karen!

Leigh and I have met with Karen at the polytech and plan to go to Queenstown overnight in the first week of May as a follow up.

New blog

We have created a new blog and I will migrate all of the information from our previous blog.