Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Step # 2

Now that you have completed your first blogging entry, you need to get started on your individual City research. You want to make sure that when you begin to decide on what all you will do in each city, that you keep in mind your budget. Make sure you can afford all the activities that you may be interested in. You should have your budget sheets in your flash drives. When deciding on what you can afford, you may want to start with the cost of getting to your first spot from Dallas. You can go to Kayak.com to look up flight information from different airline companies. Kayak also has rental car info and hotel packages. Remember, you must include your method of travel once you have arrived in your destination of choice and you have to sleep at some point. So, once you have chosen your flight information, add that amount to your budget sheets to determine how much money you have left for your hotel, food, and other activities. To learn how to fill out your budget sheet, you can check out the tutorial website for further information.

After you have determined how much money you have left for fun, go to your travel link for your city of choice and choose activities that fit within your budget. Keep in mind that there is more than one person in your group, so when you buy a ticket to something, you must include the cost for everyone to go. You also need to keep in mind how you are going to get from place to place. Will you rent a car, catch a cab, or any other type of public transportation? This cost does not have to be for each person considering you all can ride together unless you use public transportation.

So, as you go along and find events to participate in, you also want to capture images and place them within your blog entry. If you do not know how to add and image in your blog, go to the tutorial website to learn. Remember you can always check the tutorial page when you need to know how to do something related to this project. Along with the images of places that you are going to, you also need to take pictures of your group as if you are actually there in that city. You will take these pictures along with the images you have collected for this blog and place them on your Photo Journey Map on Mappness. Remember, your login information is the same as your blog. If you don't remember how to load the images, once again check the tutorial website.

Therefore, you 2nd blog entry will be your first stop. Tell us all about your stay, including how much you spent on each activity, what you did, where you stayed and dined and the cost of getting to your city and around town. Don't forget to explain in detail each activity with great enthusiasm. At the end of your entry, please put the name of the person in your group who submitted the blog.

Have Fun!!!

5 comments:

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  2. Mr.Smith can you check our second blog please.

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  3. What do we write in the journey description for mapness, send me the answer at gmail please, thank you!

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  4. on the mapness/mapvivo i put in the username and password and it didn't work

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