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 * RUBRIC FOR WEB PAGE**

CLASS Home Page: You must have created a title under the appropriate period of our home page ([|www.2011traveladventures]). When you highlight your title, click LINK (and click the X into the box that ask if you want to have the page open in a new window). Do not click the External Page Tab. Remember to Click SAVE!


 * Once your title is linked, you will go there and click the title of your trip. That will open up YOUR HOME PAGE. This will be the place where you list the titles of all the sections to this project. Now it is time to create those links.
 * On YOUR HOME page you will:
 * A Detailed paragraph, describing when and where you went (this is only the overview- do not get too specific here). Just tell some highlights of what you did and saw (best and worst of the voyage). In order to decide where you are going, you are exploring the lonelyplanet.com site! Click around and find out how many days to stay in each place and make sure you and your partner agree about where you want to go.
 * Include a map from the widgets. Watch the video again on how to create a map and insert it! You may need to watch it several times.
 * You will need to set up a gmail account to save any map you make in google maps. To do this, open a new tab, go to gmail.com and create a new account. This is a good account to have anyhow, since many good sites will now allow you in (you can make a web page at googlesites.com and store ALL the documents you make). You will insert a map with all the countries that you visit, tracking the trip, like the one below.
 * Insert a calendar widget with the two weeks of your trip and when you are going to each country. Again, watch the video of how to do this by clicking on the Widget for the Calendar!

Example: When we are in France, we will need: Where is the closest bathroom? Ou sont les toilettes les plus proches? How much is this? Combien est-ce-que ca coute? You can go to babelfish.yahoo.com to look up phrases.
 * A list of common phrases you will need to get by in the main language of each country you are in.


 * A list of what we are bringing in our backpack- A list of what we will need to bring. No, you will not need your blow dryers and curling irons girls. The only electronic device, you will want is perhaps an MP3 or music player. All the electric current is different in both Europe and South America and you will need special chargers if you are to plug anything in. Your parents can go two weeks without you on the other end of the cell phone. It’s expensive and easy to charge. You can arrange to call home once a week from a pay phone by buying a little card. It’s easy. You are limited to 50 lbs in your backpack that you will check in. You may carry a smaller backpack on the plane as a carry-on. List what you will have in both. Remember that all the major cities in both South America and Europe have laundrymats! You do not need to bring a 14 shirts!! Three should suffice.

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 * Add a new link that says “Our Daily Journal and Photos” Once it is linked (NOT AN EXTERNAL PAGE- Just and internal one), then add another:
 * Add a new link that says “Our Daily Budget”. Link and Save.

THE ONLY TWO SITES YOU SHOULD BE ON FOR BUDGET-TRAVEL RESEARCH ARE:

[|WWW.RICKSTEVES.COM] AND [|WWW.LONELYPLANET.COM] JOURNALING AND RECORD KEEPING
 * You must write out the details of what you do every day!!! Where you stay? What restaurant you eat at? What you went to see/do in the city? The adventures you had? This is the bulk of your research using the above links! It must be accurate.
 * Our Budget- This is a daily log of every penny spent using the table on your icon bar.

You won’t be able to carry or purchase large gifts (unless you want to pay to send them home; remember: you are carrying everything on your back to the next destination. There will, however, be tons to buy (small souvenirs, yummy pastries and desserts, tours to museums) . Be smart about gift purchasing (small, token items). You will be popping into grocery stores and will need to write down the actual names of stores and museums in the countries you visit! Find out what is reasonable to be spending on bread, cheese, lunchmeat, and juice for lunch in the various countries. Everything on here must be true about the country.