The final challenge of this project is the planning and organization of an Expo to promote tourism in your country. But before that, you need to surf different websites and overcome several missions that will help you gain knowledge and acquire strategies.

Collaborative work is highlighted in this project, which means you will mainly acquire knowledge by working in pairs or small groups. Likewise, you will also work individually on interactive activities to which you will access by clicking on the website links provided.

Do not forget that your teacher can help you whenever necessary on your way towards the big final challenge.

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It is advisable that you read some information about this resource before you start working so that you learn about the tasks or missions that you will perform and the tools and applications with which you will fulfill them. You will also know about some aspects on the evaluation of your work and how to use Your learning diary. Click on the titles below for detailed information.

Your Work

The missions that you will have done at the end of this project are:

• The creation and presentation of a 'four-city map'.
• A city guide.
• A podcast based on the description of an ideal city.
• A festival programme/timeline.
• The final challenge which consists of the organization of an Expo at your school to promote the best about your town/city/region.

Tools and Apps

• To create, design and edit your work, you will be able to use the following apps, among others.
• Cacoo, an online tool with which you will create word maps to work on key vocabulary.
• Canva, which will enable you to design and create your own charts and posters.
• StoryboardThat. You can use this online app to prepare the drafts for your presentations. 
• Google Slides, to create slide presentations.
• Google maps, to geolocate the towns and cities on which you will be working.
• citycreator.com, a website that enables you to plan and design a city.
• Tiki-Toki. This enables you to create digital timelines.
• Audacity, A voice based learning tool.
• Wevideo, the tool with which you can create and edit a video about the Expo, which may be published on a YouTube channel. If you prefer, you can find other video-editing tools at the edtechteacher.org site.
• Kdenlive. Video editor
• Magisto movie. Video editor for mobile phones.

Promoting your work

Notice that you will be performing several missions and we are sure that, by the end of this resource, you will be proud of your great work, which you can prepare, publish or share with the help of the online tools and apps listed below.

• To publish, you will use Weebly site. An email account is required to create your own site where you will be posting all your missions. Within this site, you will create a blog entitled 'Your learning diary' in which you will be including relevant information concerning your learning process.

• To share your work with other people, you will use Pinterest, a digital board where you can publish your tasks and share them with your classmates.

Throughout the project, your teacher may award you with a badge from Open Badges in case of excellent performance.

Assessment

Your progress on this project will be assessed according to the following criteria:

• Teacher's evaluation: your teacher will use the assessment rubrics to evaluate your work on the missions and the final challenge. 

• • 'Rubric to assess a digital map' (four-city map) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • ''Rubric for assessing an oral presentation', (presentations of four-city map, city guide, ideal city map-poster and festival program/timeline) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • 'Rubric to assess a slide presentation' (city guide) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • 'Rubric for assessing a video in the classroom' (In case that you create a video guide) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • 'Rubric for assessing a digital poster' (Your ideal city map-poster) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • 'Rubric for assessing a podcast' (recording of a description about your ideal city) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • 'Rubric for assessing a timeline' (festival program/timeline) (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).
  • 'Rubric for assessing your digital site'  (download in editable odt format, download in pdf) This refers to your Weebly site where you will publish all your work of this and other projects.
• Peer evaluation: you will assess other partners by creating your own assessment sheet with the items that you consider as appropriate or by using the assessment rubrics listed above. 
• You will self-evaluate the final outcome using the document 'Rubric to assess the project Our country Expo' (download in editable odt format, download in pdf). This rubric brings together the main criteria for assessing your missions and challenge.
• Teacher's observation in class will be based on your degree of participation in the project and how well you perform all the missions.
• As you can see, you will get entirely involved in this project by acquiring, creating and sharing contents as well as assessing both, your own and your classmates' learning progress.

Learning diary

You will learn more meaningfully if you reflect on your work progress throughout this project. In your Weebly site, you will create a blog entitled "Our Country Expo", which will be Your Learning Diary. Here, you will answer several questions and will become aware of your efficient work and of the difficulties that you find in each mission and in the final challenge.

Final remarks.Your work on this resource will help you develop your linguistic competence as you will be presented some language aspects that you will practise in several reading, listening, writing and speaking activities. Here, you will also have the chance to develop your autonomy and to work in a collaborative way with your classmates. Besides, you can broaden your digital competence with the online tools and apps suggested to carry out your work.