What next!

Missed the usual meeting with Leigh, he was in Queenstown so am just going to update and then provide him with some jobs to complete before the next time we meet.

I am trying to work through the front page of the wiki and update and add resources, activities etc. Need to get this completed and then we can use it as a template. In the meantime am also working on the other specialties. Had a meeting with William Lucas from Languages today trying to work out some way in which we can collaborate on the Reception Services specialty(L4). There is a local course for greetings, customs etc those working in the tourism industry should be aware of. This could work out really well in that William says his students need to have practical experience in english conversational skills. Could see this working well with ours in that it would provide them with experience of trying to listen and gain information from people whose first language is not english. Also would like to use the language students as a resource from which to build activities around. We are both going to think about what we could do and then meet again to put in place a plan.

We have had our first input of information into the wiki on the Cook Island Tourism specialty - this is great. So have opened put out a notice on googlegroups and Wikipasifica to see if anyone else is interested in developing this with us. Will keep you posted. Terry Marler is off to Samoa on Saturday and is trying to set up a tourism contact person in the educational field for us. I have to come up with a wish list for him. Wish I was going too!

Have entered the tour guiding wiki into the OP Staff Innovation Awards. Want to increase the profile of the programme so thought it was good to start from the inside and work outwards. Have been working with marketing to improve our profile on the website and design a new flyer and graduate profile. Its not curriculum development though is it?

Met with Terry Neal today to complete an evaluation which will be feed back to TEC amongst others. She looked at the work on wikieducator and asked lots of questions about the development, student feedback and support surrounding it. It was good to talk about the project and she was very positive.

Have to go so shall make another entry soon with a work list.