cheredenine Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Our head teacher has just mentioned to me that a pot of money might be available in the near future in relation to the school starting to offer a travel & tourism diploma. He wants to use the money to make an existing classroom space into a very nice posh looking ICT based travel & tourism teaching space. A couple of ideas he has mentioned off the top of his head would be to have a mock office in one corner, a call-centre or travel agent style flat screen TV showning appropriate content on one of the walls, and a series of hexagonal tables fitted out with PCs, etc. He has asked me to have a think about this to see what else could be added to the mix to make it even better. My first thought - ask Edugeek! Does anyone have any ideas about how to make this plan better? Any experience of doing a similar project, maybe for the same subject? Cheers!
teejay Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Dunno, but I'm sure you need to do some research visits to the Bahamas 1
cheredenine Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 On the contrary, i'm not one for hot weather! A cooler research location would suit me better...
teejay Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 How about some sort of voip telephone system within the room, so students could play at being sales desk/cutomer service etc while others act as cutomers.
cheredenine Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 Ooo... Nice idea! Keep them coming!
dhicks Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 He wants to use the money to make an existing classroom space into a very nice posh looking ICT based travel & tourism teaching space. I get the impression that the travel & tourism industry uses rather less posh IT equipment than you might think - I think the travel agents / airline booking system is still text-based, you won't be needing anything fancier than a couple of basic PCs with flatscreen monitors. You might want to see what software you are expected to install if you actually want to have pupils trained as travel agents. -- David Hicks
cheredenine Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 I get the impression that the travel & tourism industry uses rather less posh IT equipment than you might think - I think the travel agents / airline booking system is still text-based, you won't be needing anything fancier than a couple of basic PCs with flatscreen monitors. You might want to see what software you are expected to install if you actually want to have pupils trained as travel agents. -- David Hicks The mention of posh was more the Head's wording to illustrate the fact that he wanted to get the most value out of this pot of money he has designs on by buying lovely new kit... You are, of course, correct about actual industry conditions. The other carrot in this project, however, is that for a portion of the week the room will be up for grabs for normal ICT lesson use, so decent kit would be a plus there...
laserblazer Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Why not talk to a couple of the big travel companies. Thompson, First Choice etc. They might have a training system set up that you can access.
dhicks Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 he wanted to get the most value out of this pot of money he has designs on by buying lovely new kit... Does this work area have any windows? If not, or if there's a suitible chunk of wall space, you could set up "virtual" windows, like they have with the control tower simulator for training air-traffic controllers. MS Flight Simulator, a decent "gaming" PC with enough graphics capability to run three screens, three projectors, some whiteboard paint and you're away. -- David Hicks
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