2015/2016 cohort Fieldwork Groninger Museum David Bowie is

http://tourismresearch.nl/news/1/passions-of-tourism-course

Students examined museum shows such as the David Bowie Is show at Groninger Museum where were all invited to watch the show free of charge (we/students were featured on the social media outlets of Groninger Museum https://www.facebook.com/GroningerMuseum/posts/10153513405618597 );

 

2014/2016 cohort Fieldwork in Jordan

https://www.facebook.com/researchtoren/photos/a.1472121023111696.1073741828.1450185678638564/1494135050910293/?type=3&theater

Students wrote & designed travel brochures, design travel videos (with these we were in the mass-media and social media http://www.betterplaces.nl/donatie-vluchtelingenkamp-jordanie/ , and won the Honours College Petrus Camper Festival:

Students inspired to contact the main regional newspaper in Northern Netherlands Dagblad van het Noorden to disseminate the project for the course:

Student Academic Blogging

For the Honours College Passions of Tourism I have introduced student academic blogging as a novel method of learning and assessment in the curriculum.

Using this form of teaching and learning assessment students reflect in more depth and critically about the socio-cultural phenomenon of travel and tourism. For the HC – PoT course each student keeps a blog populated with at least 10 entries of 300 words each. Students use tourism theories discussed during the course to explain socio-cultural, spatial, and political aspects encountered in their Summer School ‘travel as education’ experience. Students advertise their blogs to have as many blog-followers as possible. In this way they engage a wider audience and disseminate their theoretically-informed insights. A few examples here:

http://joshonourstourism.blogspot.nl/

http://www.jordantravelexperience.blogspot.nl/

http://jaratojordan.wordpress.com/

 

To connect students, teaching and learning with society at large I have started a Facebook Contest – Student Academic Blogs: Most Read Blog & Wittiest Comment – a way to engage further with society, increase societal impact of Honours College teaching, and disseminate knowledge co-created amongst students, lecturer and commenters on their blogs. Details from the first edition of the contest are here: www.facebook.com/researchtoren

1. A) short documentary video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFvbAQw31v4 and B) travel brochure, both about students’ experiences in Jordan and critical reflections on ‘travel as education’. The video and travel brochure are produced by the students as part of the Atelier component of the HC PoT course. Along with producing them, students commercialised these products. Proceedings will be donated to a non-governmental organisation for refugees in Jordan.