Narrative group _rainbow

Narrative group _rainbow

1. 1. The Project Narrative I – GROUP/TEAM INFO 1. Team Members: 1. Vu Thi Van 2. Hoang thi Ve 3. Doan Thuy Oanh 4. Cao thi Phuong 5. Mai thi Thu Trang 2. E-Mail contact: bluecloud593tk@gmail.com 3. School/Organization/Course: The Falculty of Foreign Languages 4. Bibliography and Citations: http://baoninhbinh.org.vn/di-san-van-hoa-the-manh-cua-du-lich-ninh-binh- 20130304082500000p0c15.htm http://cattour.vn/tour/402_233/tour-du-lich-ha-noi-bai-dinh-trang-an-1- ngay.htm?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Cpc&utm_campaign=VLXD http://doc.edu.vn/tai-lieu/de-tai-tim-hieu-khu-du-lich-trang-an-suc-bat-moi-cua-du-lich- ninh-binh-43445/ http://www.dulichbaidinh.com/Home/nha-nghi-khach-san-o-gan-chua-bai-dinh-ninh- binh/128/ninh-binh-mot-viet-nam-thu-nho.aspx http://en.baoninhbinh.org.vn/bai-dinh-pagoda-20130920022518183p0c83.htm http://www.dulichninhbinh.com.vn/ninhbinh-restaurants/Dai-Nha-hang-Ben-Trang- An.html http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trang_Ch%C3%ADnh https://www.youtube.com/ II- PROJECT OVERVIEW 1.Description of Our Team We are Rainbow team. Our team includes five members: Doan Thuy Oanh, Cao Thi Phuong, Mai Thi Thu Trang, Vu Thi Van and Hoang Thi Ve. We are close friends and had chances to work in group together; moreover, this is a project not a subject, make sure that there are a lot of duties, so we formed the group of 5. The schedule in this
2. 2. semester had much free time to self-study at home, so we used to focus on working together on Tuesday and Thursday every week in the Learning Resource Center. We chose the topic “Tourism in Ninh Binh”. This is an interesting topic but it is not easy. We took trouble deciding to choose 3 places in Ninh Binh: Trang An, Hoa Lu Ancient Capital and Bai Dinh Pagoda. It was also not easy to divide the work. At first, we looked for the information together one by one place. Then, we gave main ideas for each place. But this work took us much time without bringing much effective result. After finishing the first place, we divided the work for each member. Each one would choose a place to research the information and took the responsibility for collecting main information and translating into English. Next, we designed the brochure about the place which each person researched. We had to study a lot of different information sources to achieve the accuracy. Moreover, thanks to the help of our teacher, Mr Huy Phung, who guided us along the way, we were taught about four rules of good design, how to make colors, orrange text books and images. Besides, he also gave us some template brochures, which were really useful. Therefore, we could finish this project on time. 2. Summary of Our Project Everyone wants to enjoy the life, and the tourism is the best choice. Tourism plays an important role for the entertainment. Especially, the summer is comming; it is also the development of tourism season. So, Rainbow team decided to choose Ninh Binh as an ideal destination for tourists. The purpose of our project is to advertise for Ninh Binh tourism. We want to introduce Ninh Binh as a new famous place which many people have not known before. This place is considered to be the best tourism destination comparing to other provinces in Red river Delta. Especially, Ninh Binh has become one of ideal eco-tourism destinations for tourists not only domestic but also international. The nature gives here many beautiful sceneries and it is called with the name “Ha Long on land”. Besides, introducing about the natural sceneries, we also want to introduce about the historical values. For example, Hoa Lu Ancient Capital was the first one of feudal sate in Viet Nam associated with the history of three dynasties: Dinh, Tien Le and the beginning of Ly. There are unique architectures and the value of the national history. Ninh Binh also brings the spirit value. The tourists visit Bai Dinh Pagoda to look for a peaceful space, and enjoy a quiet and spacious place as well as find a spiritually scared one. Further more, we hope this project can raise awareness of every people about the vestiges. So, they can contribute to protect them. To sum up, our team hopes that this project can help every one know more about Ninh Binh – a new famous tourism destination. 3. Our Computer and Internet Access Our team used computers and Internet access effectively. Almost members have computer with high- speed Internet access. Thanks to this, although we lived far away and did not have much time to meet, we could contact easily each others. For example, we could exchange information through facebook or email. As a result, we could save
3. 3. time and money for meeting. Moreover, if we had not had the computers, we could not have found a lot of useful information and images. However; we often entercounted many difficult things due to computers. For instance, when lossing electric or disconnect Internet, we could not share documents or discussion. To sum up, computers with Internet access played an important role to make our success in this project. 4. Problems We Had To Overcome During this project, we have encountered many troubles just at the beginning, because we did not know anything about this project, felt confused and did not know what we had to do and what we should do. First of all, it was quite hard for us to find the necessary information. We did not know how to make key words, which helped to find out quickly and accurately on the Internet. Because this project was done about places in Vietnam but by English, we found all documents not only in Vietnam but also in the international resources. It was easy to find the information through Internet, but it was hard to know that wheather the information was accurate or not. Therefore, the details we used must be choosen carefully in a long time. Next, we had to disscuss together for a long time to set up a suitable timetable for meeting, because they also had other subjects with other teams. Besides, it was rainy days at this time, so we used to meet later than the fixed time or even delay the meeting. Moreover, we also were in trouble to find typical images in Ninh Binh because some imagines had low-qualification. So, it required us to learn using some softwares for editting photo such as Adobe Photoshop. Although some members in our team could use this program, they still learned by themself or even asked for help to make the images beautiful like we hoped. In addition, the ability of designing was also another barrier when doing this project. Almost members in our group had not used Microsoft word to design. As a reasult, it took us much time to practise designing such as: how to mix colors, orrange the text boxes and images, and select the margin sizes and so on. Because, each member was responsiable for designing one place, there were many different styles of design. It was not easy to have the same viewpoint. Finally, we must spend quite much time to design the brochure again following the common idea, made us angry and tired. Particually, we had really a big problem when going to print the brochure. We could not know that to print the brochure as we wanted was too difficult. There were many photocopy stores, which can not make following our requirements, others could but we still edited again and again. Finally, it was quite hard for us to spend time to practice speaking before having the virtual tour. We were very busy to solve the work of other subjects, I also did not have free time because of having past time, some members were sick. That was really hard time for us. Everything was really vague to us, but a few weeks later, under the instruction of my teacher and information we asked from senior students and people who experienced, gradually we understood and began to make a detail plan.
4. 4. 5. Our Project Sound Bite This project makes the relationship among all members in our team become more close- knit. We realize that working together is very effective and interesting. Moreover, we have a good opportunity to study about some famous places in Ninh Binh. Although it is only a virtual tour, we still get a lot of information about each typical place in Trang An, the ancient capital Hoa Lu and Bai Dinh pagoda. That makes us interested in travelling more. III - PROJECT ELEMENTS 1.What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your project? By using information technology and other materials, our team has created a great brochure. To reach the consequence like that all of us tried our best. We shared the work together. Oanh and Trang didn’t have computer so they had to collect information through books and newspapers and the rest of people used computers to find the sufficient amount of information to complete this project. Some weeks of lesson we did not understand how to make brochure, because this is the first time we have undertaken a project. Fortunately, Ve had reference book of those who learned this project. At the first time, we thought of using Microsoft office Powerpoint software to do it. But the following weeks, our teacher gave a few suggestions that it was better if we applied Microsoft Word for design. He not only gave suggestions but also introduced some links of website made the good brochure. Each of members read a lot. Van and Ve got the most understanding about how to use this software effectively, so we were easier to design. They guided us to use it correctly and usefully. Following the recommand we only used 30 percent the number of pictures on the Internet. So we used Adobe photoshop CS4 to get photos of our own. In addition, a large number of images were also quite rare and low in quality, we applied this software to edit image in order to make them better such as brightness, color ... One more, lack of information about the destinations in Ninh Binh province made us be in trouble. We collected them on the Internet, but that was not accurate enough, we obliged to think about other ways. Before, Phuong said that she would contact with a tour guide in Trang An to get them. We saw that all these tools helped us in the creation for this project. The Internet plays a significant role for the success of this project as well as made the brochure by using Microsoft office word. 2.Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises Through this project, we have learned a lot of things. In the beginning period, We thought this subject was too hard for third-year students like us, because we have not learned how to design and studied much about the travel tourisms before. Howerver, after finishing the project, we have discovered many things. Firstly, we often read books, magazines or newpapaers, but we did not know how people can make them. Maybe, they
5. 5. were made by a complex process by the intelligent people. But now, we have found that, to make a brochure, it is very difficult but it does not mean that we can not do. Honestly, we did not believe that we can work as tourist guide as well as design something. But after learning this course we know how to make it and be more creative. In addition, we had many skills such as working in group, listening to other people’s opinions, whenever we had a conflict or argument, all of us kept calm to explain more clearly, also know that each person had their own strenght, so I believe that we became more understanding and closer with each other. We have learned that “nothing is impossible”. We did not have any experience to make a good brochure. And it was not too much familiar with us. In this course, we had to design one like that, so we had to make reference many sources such as: books, newspapers and magazines. Our teacher taught us a few necessary methods to create it such as: contrast, reception, alignment, proximity and so on. We saw that it was very useful to create a brochure, thanks to meticulous in design, we become more careful and creative. We also had to study other softwares a lot such as: Microsoft office word, Microsoft office Powerpoint, Adobe photoshop. Though we still used Micrsoft office word, we did not know that there are very useful with many good features. By using a lot of softwares like that, we could work easily (color scheme and how to create text, background and the different effects) and arrange it logically. We discovered that, if people have a travelling to anywhere, they should get some information about this place. Because, it will make people feel more interested in discovering the new places. Further more, we had to find a lot of information in many pages both by Vietnamese and English, so we discovered some useful pages to learn English. Having to write and read much in English help me improve my profestional skill a lot. Because of many reasons our group did not have a chance to come there and we deeply regreted, but we will be there in some days soon, when we finish this term Besides, we have also learned how to split time reasonably and effectively. In this term, there were five subjects, so we had five different teams. So, if I spent too much time for only one subject, I could not have time for the others. It required us to have a good schedule. As a reasult, we must make a timetable by finding suitable days for all members and others subject In addition, taking a virtual tour is very complex and demanding, but we have been watching a lot of videos on the Internet to learn how to make a tour. After that, thanks to this project, we could get a lot of information about some famous places in Ninhbinh such as: Trang An,the ancient typical Hoa Lu and Bai Dinh pagoda. These knowledges really make us more interested in travelling, especially in Ninhbinh. For the great work we have tried with our heart, we are sure that we have got the highest achivement.