02-22-2014, 06:00 PM
I agree with a lot of the advice given.
What is the difficulty level of your class --- behaviourally speaking?
You could potentially use boring course material (definitions and the like) and concepts that could be applied in some way. For example, you could split the class up into groups (probably better if you make the groups yourself, so you know that there are strong and weak students in each one), and they can design a marketing scheme designed to advertise a specified area (like a specific country, city, etc.) for tourists. If the class does not have access to the internet you'll have to provide information on the given area yourself. At the end you could have the class vote on the most attractive marketing scheme for fun.
Obviously they'll be required to explain how tourism, economics, and marketing are connected; they should see why. Marketing gets tourists and tourists get money.
Edit: For the presentation you can consider mediums for them to present. For example, if you have a projector they could make a powerpoint presentation, students who don't want to could use bristoboard, etc. You can even have them required to do a short interactive activity (can't think of anything, but when I presented on budgeting in a class recently I had a bunch of pictures of various objects and had the class designate them as needs or wants). This might help them a bit with other classes too.
What is the difficulty level of your class --- behaviourally speaking?
You could potentially use boring course material (definitions and the like) and concepts that could be applied in some way. For example, you could split the class up into groups (probably better if you make the groups yourself, so you know that there are strong and weak students in each one), and they can design a marketing scheme designed to advertise a specified area (like a specific country, city, etc.) for tourists. If the class does not have access to the internet you'll have to provide information on the given area yourself. At the end you could have the class vote on the most attractive marketing scheme for fun.
Obviously they'll be required to explain how tourism, economics, and marketing are connected; they should see why. Marketing gets tourists and tourists get money.
Edit: For the presentation you can consider mediums for them to present. For example, if you have a projector they could make a powerpoint presentation, students who don't want to could use bristoboard, etc. You can even have them required to do a short interactive activity (can't think of anything, but when I presented on budgeting in a class recently I had a bunch of pictures of various objects and had the class designate them as needs or wants). This might help them a bit with other classes too.
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