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Assignment: You will create a 3-column (3-fold) 2-sided tourism brochure for a Spanish speaking country.
To complete the assignment:
 * 1) Export it as a PDF from Open Office to My Documents
 * 2) Go to pdf2jpg.nett to convert the PDF to a jpeg document. Download the jpeg to My Documents
 * 3) Go to your Country Reflections wiki journal page. Go to the wiki File to Upload the jpeg.

Background 1. Enter the URL of the Bookr product that you created for a Spanish-speaking country. URL: here What country did you write about?

2. Know: These are the facts that I know about the country/country site.
 * 1) fjlsdfj
 * 2) jflsjf

3. Need to Learn: These are facts that I need to learn to complete the brochure.
 * 1) jdkfjlds
 * 2) jfdljfs

5. Go to Country Report to research more information about the country. And go to the CIA World FactBook and also look on the Frommer's website Do not copy and paste, but make notes of information about the country here.

5. Decide on a specific focus for the brochure and decide on a target audience. Describe both here.

6. What language of persuasion will you use in the brochure. Explain with examples.

7. Use Open Office Text to create a 3-column, 2-sided brochure. Make sure the information is accurate. You may use creative commons images for the documents.

Keep in mind the 4 principles of good design: Contrast, Alignment, Repetition, Proximity.
 * Use CONTRAST to “pull” the viewer in, create hierarchy, and make it easy to pick out important information
 * Use ALIGNMENT to unify and organize the page(s) and publication(s), and make text easy to read and understand
 * Use REPETITION to unite, join, and fuse the pages and publication(s) together, and provide a consistent “look and feel”
 * Use PROXIMITY to indicate relationships and create visual connections between elements.

8. Export the final document as a jpg and upload it to your wiki page.
=Thinking about Your Thinking= =9. Your Analysis:= Learned: These are facts that I learned about the country.
 * 1) Ecuador is the largest exporter of bananas
 * 2) Although Ecuador is a Catholic country, common-law marriages are accepted as legal marriages
 * 3) Salinas is the most famous beach in Ecuador

Resources: The most useful resources for images and ideas were:
 * 1) www.countryreports.org
 * 2) www.ciafactbook.org

Discuss the following:

 * 1) What is the target audience? Explain why this was a good audience for the country you were researching. Why would they be interested in the country? The target audience is for Latinos wanting to travel to Ecuador
 * 2) What creative techniques are used to attract attention? How do the text, colors, language appeal to a specific audience. Provide specific examples. I used the creative technique
 * 3) How might different people understand this message differently? (Would a different audience find the brochure appealing to them? why or why not?) This would appeal to everybody because vacationing is for everybody,even if some people have not been familiar for the culture and national sites type of South American countries, some of course however would be interested by the attraction of beautiful sites Ecuador has to attract people to go there.
 * 4) What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message? The lifestyles omitted in the message of the brochure is to bring out a tropic lifestyle and to really represent with pictures what Ecuador is really like.
 * 5) Why would this message be distributed? To encourage people to come to Ecuador more traveling through Vacaciones Ecuador.

Problems and Solutions: What were the biggest problems that you encountered in completing the assignment. How did you solve the problems? One of the biggest problems i faced in this project was to really clarify or to omit the message clearly to all audiences the real idea of what Ecuador is like, what Ecuador would be like. This was solved by using advanced word adjectives describing Ecuador positively.

=Assessment Rubric for ICT=

Based on Science Leadership Academy Rubric

4 || Meets Expectations 3 || Approaches Expectations 2 || Does Not Meet Expectations 1 || - Does student plan and structure the project thoughtfully and purposefully? ||  ||   ||   ||   || - Does student demonstrate the understanding of ideas through inquiry, research, analysis, or experience? ||  ||   ||   ||   || - Does student use a variety of skills and strategies to apply knowledge to the problem or project? ||  ||   ||   ||   || - Does student take the necessary steps to fully realize the project goals? ||  ||   ||   ||   || - Does student effectively communicate the central ideas of the project? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Exceeds Expectations
 * || Exceeds Expectations
 * ===Design===
 * ===Knowledge===
 * ===Application===
 * ===Process===
 * ===Presentation===

Spanish Class Rubric

Travel Brochure Rubric

Students’ brochures will be graded using the following rubric.

=Travel Brochure Scoring Rubric:Grade 8=

5 points Excellent || Bueno 4 points Good || Necesita Mejorar 3 points Below Average ||
 * =Criteria= || Excelente
 * =Criteria= || Excelente
 * ===Content and Vocabulary Accuracy=== || Varied use of vocabulary, few inaccurate travel descriptions, details are very realistic, contains very few errors and accurately reflects the current events and activities || Basic use of vocabulary, some inaccurate travel descriptions, details are realistic, contains some errors, but does reflect current events and activities || Limited use of vocabulary, many inaccurate travel descriptions, details are unrealistic, contains many errors and does not reflect the current events and activities ||
 * ===Linguistic Accuracy=== || Brochure contains few agreement, conjugation or spelling errors and is easily understood by the reader || Brochure contains some agreement, conjugation, or spelling errors but it does not interfere with the basic understanding of the reader || Brochure contains many adjective agreement errors, conjugation errors, and/or spelling errors that impede the understanding of the reader ||
 * Visuals || Visuals are from the country described and are colorful and attractive with many descriptive and appropriate words || Visuals are from the country described most of the time and are in color with appropriate descriptive words || Visuals are not from the country described, or are only in black and white; did not use appropriate descriptive words ||
 * Internet Resources || Used three on-line web sites as resources || Used two on-line web sites as resources || Used a minimum of one on-line web site as a resource (www.countryreports.org) ||
 * Total =__ /20 points ||