We started today's session by discussing what we had negotiated about topics & we agreed to let Mervyn start with the topic that he had chosen. Travel.
Mervyn told us about his recent coach holiday to Spain.
At 05.30am he left Doncaster interchange for a 2 day trip to the Costa Brava.
Traveling by coach to the EuroTunnel & then onwards by coach, he stopped for an overnight rest at a hotel in France. During the holiday he had some excursions to interesting Spanish Cities including Barcelona.
Once we were logged onto the computers we entered the web address for our BLOG in the URL (web address) field at the top of the screen. We also placed GOOGLE into our FAVOURITES for ease of browsing & searching for information. Our web address is:
www.weagroup.blogspot.com
We looked at a website for tourist information about Barcelona & we found some interesting picture galleries. (See the Barcelona link on the right of this blog in the Useful Websites section).
We discussed the Barcelona Football Club Stadium & it's 110 thousand capacity. This we compared with local stadia that we know well & visit occasionally in Doncaster & Rotherham. Their capacity is 15 thousand & 12 thousand. We tried to imagine the differences in the crowd sizes.
Whilst looking at the Barcelona Football Club Stadium website, we also found a paragraph that mentioned a tour of the stadium & it's museum. We tried to imagine what it would be like to stand in the middle of the pitch in an empty stadium & then to think what it would be like from the players' perspective as compared with that of the fans in the seats. We looked at photo galleries of the museum artefacts & found:
- Trophies & medals
- Photos of players, managers & past presidents
- Football strips in Barcelona FC colours (Red & Blue)
- A roll of honour
- Articles about the History of Barcelona FC
We discussed the different methods of transport that Mervyn could have chosen to use instead of coach travel. These included:
- Car
- Train
- Ferry
- Plane
During this session we followed hyperlinks to other web pages - this is known as 'browsing' or 'surfing the web'. We played some video clips & we practiced using video controls to view the video in Full Screen mode & again in Thumbnail mode.
We had an interesting session & everyone contributed to the discussion that followed our research.
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