Introduction to the Capstone Project
Introduction to the Capstone Project
A Capstone Project is an Inquiry-Based Student Interest, multi-step Project-Based Learning, or Real-World Solution Project. This course will have one Capstone project, with several checkpoints. The final product will be due at least two weeks before the end of the course and is a graded assignment. This is not an optional assignment.
Capstone Project Introduction
As a travel agent, GaVS International Travel Inc. has given you the task of increasing interest in travel to an assigned Spanish-speaking country. Your job is to do a careful and diligent search of the country and make a Power Point presentation with audio that will attract travelers to the country by providing informative and interesting facts to prospective travelers.
If you prefer another type of presentation like a podcast, video, etc., you must discuss it with your instructor ahead of time.
Goals of the Capstone
The class goal is for students to be familiarized with all the Spanish-speaking countries of the world; your goal is to explore your assigned country to publicize it and educate your classmates who are possible client travelers to your country.
There are several compelling reasons why tourists and travelers should consider visiting a Spanish-speaking countries and it is your responsibility to highlight and stimulate travel to the country. Your inquiry into this country should spotlight its distinctiveness and its personality. Remember that each Spanish-speaking country has its own individual charm and attractions. Convince tourists to plan an adventure to one of these fascinating destinations!
First Steps and What Comes Next
As stated in the introduction you will be assigned 1 of the 21 Spanish-Speaking Countries.
Email your teacher to receive your assigned country.
Once you receive your country, you may begin researching general information about your country. As we go through the course, you will receive specific topics to research, which will include: preparing for a trip, places of interest, food, shopping, sports, and various other details about the culture or people of your country.
Additionally, you may want to get a head start by setting up the PowerPoint presentation you will be creating for this project. For instance, you could set up the first and last slides:
- Decide a design for the Title Slide of your presentation. Also include the following information:
- Your full name
- Semester
- Your instructor’s name
- You will be updating the checkpoint number on your title slide at each checkpoint.
- Create a Bibliography slide which will be located at the end of your presentation. As you research your Project, any information you plan to use you need to document. Record this information on your Bibliography slide. We will not be requiring any specific format, but it is important to include the origins for any information you discover.
Please note: you will be working on this Project throughout this course by completing checkpoint assignments which will lead you to a final product. Each checkpoint assignment will allow you to work on and submit a portion of the project.
- Students in Spanish IIAB: you will complete the full project this semester.
- Students in Spanish IIA: you will not complete the full project this semester. Because of this, you must save your project somewhere that you can access it in Spanish IIB. You will not have access to the IIA course when you are in IIB, so it is necessary for you to save your project on a personal drive.
- Students in Spanish IIB: you are completing the project which you started in Spanish IIA. You will need to carry on with the country assigned to you in IIA. (Please note: if you did not take Spanish IIA with GAVS, you will need to contact your instructor immediately to receive a country and determine how you will approach this project).
Project Outline
Students will be designing a travel presentation which will include audio, pictures, and information about your Spanish-speaking country. Your presentation should be creative and “eye-catching” so that you can create excitement and interest about travel to your country. You will be given suggestions and guidance should you need them.
This project will be created in Spanish. The purpose of this capstone project is for students to demonstrate their written and spoken knowledge of Spanish learned in GaVS courses thus far.
The use of outside resources such as AI and any online translators to complete this assignment is not allowed (see GAVS Academic Honesty Statement). Students are to stay within the Course Content. If students are in doubt, ask their instructor for help. The instructors are here to help and will do what they can to assist the students. Looking words up in the dictionary is not wrong, it is normal. When students use online translators, AI, tutors, etc. and resources as such to claim it as their own work, such resources do not measure a student's knowledge but rather someone else's. Instructors will work with students to get to where they need to be.
Be creative! Using outside resources such as the internet, encyclopedias, magazines, and other reference material can help you research the required information about your country. If you use any outside resources, you will have to document from where you got the information. Taking credit for work that is not yours is plagiarism, a form of cheating. Remember that your final slide will be a bibliography slide.
Project Contents
The majority of your topics and themes will be guided by the Content of our course (more to come). You must have AUDIO; you are narrating the information in Spanish in the presentation.
Your final project will have 12 total slides at a minimum, which will include:
- One (1) title slide
- Ten (10) content slides
- One (1) other slide with bibliography
The purpose of this Capstone Project is to familiarize everyone with the Spanish-speaking world. Consider the fact other students will be seeing these presentations. One of your final tasks (at the end of the project) is to reflect on your project and the projects of your classmates in a Discussion forum. Projects will be accessible for viewing by all classmates in the forum.
Your first submission/checkpoint will happen later in the course.
Country List
Your instructor will assign one of the following countries for you to research. If you have not yet, email your instructor to determine what country you will research!
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