Designing A Program for Matching Tour Guides with Families
Objective: create a program or system that allows tour guides to match up with families of similar interests
Essential Project Design Elements:
- Challenging problem or question:
How can we improve our “breakout” techniques and develop a process that allows real connections between prospective families and students to be made? - Sustained inquiry
- Interview conducted by tour guides with prospective families about how they tour experience could be improved
- Surveys sent out after each tour
- Authenticity
The authenticity on this project will come with using technology. The students will be allowed to choose what program they would like to use to create a “matching system.” This project is to better the experience of the prospective families AND guides by determining a commonality between them so meaningful and memorable connections can be made.
*I will allow them to experiment with programming systems and guide them with questions like “could you use excel with sorting data?” “What other online sources have we consulted before?” - Student voice and choice
- This project is run by students because the outcome is FOR the students
- They will be the voice and representatives for the objective
- Reflection
- Personal Blog Assignment
Students will be encouraged to share their thoughts on a blog throughout the project duration. Using a blog allows growth to be documented for the student’s and supervisor’s reference.
*I think it’s really important for the students, especially, to see a visual representation of their progress.
- Personal Blog Assignment
- Critique and Revision
Launch Demonstration with Admission Staff- All tours guide students will demonstrate how to use newly developed system. Immediately following, Admission Staff will give feedback and revisions will be made as needed.
7. Public Product
- Launch – Families will be able to match with a guide that has similar interests or is from the same hometown for a more personal tour experience!