Process
1. Research
The links below are arranged according to specific roles, but don't let that stop you from visiting as many of them as you want. The more informed your team is, the better your final tour presentation is likely to be!
Entire Team: Teamwork
Each member of your team has specific responsibilities to carry out and specific materials to contribute, but don't forget that you are all working together toward a common goal: a plan for a tour "following St. Paul," which will be presented in the form of a final promotion product (a multimedia presentation, a brochure, or a Web page). It's a good idea to "begin with the end in mind."
- Process Guide #1: Brainstorming
- Process Guide #2: Building Consensus
- Process Guide #7: Time Management
Entire Team: Tours
When creating your tour, it's a good idea to be aware of what the competition offers, but don't imitate them: be sure to make your tour distinctive.
- Ekol Travel, Ltd.
- Christian Travel: The Journeys of St. Paul
- Footsteps of Paul
- JeriCo Christian Journeys: Pilgrimage to St. Paul in Greece
- Net Istanbul: A Pauline Journey
- St. Paul's Travels in Anatolia (Turkey)
- Steps of Paul Tour
Scripture Scholar: Scripture, History, and Analysis
- The New American Bible
- Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Paul
- Maps Related to the Life of Paul
- Catholic Online: St. Paul
- Journeys of Paul
- BBC Religion & Ethics: Paul
- Bible History and Geography
- Meander Travel: About St. Paul
- Net Istanbul: In the Footsteps of St. Paul
Travel Specialist: Maps, Transportation, and Sites to Visit
- Maps Related to the Life of Paul
- Enjoy Turkey: Missionary Journeys of St. Paul
- Journeys of Paul
- Holy Land Sites Review
- Bible History and Geography
- Corinth Computer Project
- An Overview of New Testament Geography
- National Geographic: St. Paul's Tomb Unearthed
- All About Turkey: The Apostle Paul
- Heritage Malta: San Pawl Milqi
Photographer/Illustrator: Photos and Illustrations
- Photographs of Bible Lands
- Wikipedia
- Microsoft Office© Online: Clipart
- National Geographic Photo Gallery Index
- See also the links for the Scripture Scholar and the Travel Specialist (above)
Media Specialist: Multimedia Presentations, Desktop Publishing, and Web Design
- PowerPoint in the Classroom: PowerPoint 2003
- Microsoft Office© Online: Clipart
- Use Word to Create a Tri-Fold Brochure
- Editing and Proofreading Strategies
- Webmonkey
- GUI Stuff
- Think.com (use a project page, if your school has an account)
2. Share
Consult Other Experts
Each member of your team is a capable expert in his/her field, so each one knows the value of consulting with other experts.
Once each member of your team has done initial research, each of you will consult other experts to compare notes, share observations, and interpret findings within their respective fields of expertise.
- All Scripture Scholars meet together to share and discuss their understanding of the routes St. Paul took and the cities he visited, with their contemporary equivalents.
- All Travel Specialists meet together to share and discuss their maps, sites to visit, and potential means of transportation.
- All Photographers/Illustrators meet together to share and discuss their sources for photographs and illustrations.
- All Media Specialists meet together to share and discuss techniques and their plans for the presentations and the brochures.
Consult Your Team
Return to your team and share all that you have discovered. Work together to determine the destinations and extent of your tour, as well as the key points to be covered and/or depicted in the final promotion project.
3. Create and Present
As a Team, you will produce a final promotion product and present it to to the tour company, ACTS (portrayed by the rest of your classmates).
Final Promotion Product
- A multimedia presentation (using MS PowerPoint© or Star Office 8 Impress©, minimum 1 slide for each destination, 1 slide for a map of the route, and 1 slide about St. Paul); OR
- An illustrated brochure or flyer (minimum 1 sheet, double-sided, with a map of the route and information about each destination and about St. Paul); OR
- A Web page (minimum 1 link to each destination and 1 link to information about St. Paul, as well as a map of the route)
Any material (such as text or illustrations) obtained from another source must be documented with proper citations.
Be sure to check the Evaluation page to see the criteria on which you will be graded.
Presentation to ACTS
Every member of your team must participate and give part of the oral presentation. of the final promotion product.
Each team member should rehearse his or her part in front of the other team members so that they can offer constructive suggestions for improvement. When your rehearsal is complete, you will be ready to make your presentation to ACTS.
All Christians Tours and Studies (ACTS)
While other teams make their presentations to ACTS, your team will join with others who are not presenting. Together you will portray ACTS.
- You will listen to each presentation silently and respectfully.
- You may ask polite, appropriate questions.
- You will consider all of the research and final promotion products.
- At the conclusion of all presentations, you will vote on which tour ACTS should add to its list of offerings.
Be sure to check the Evaluation page to see the criteria on which you will be graded.