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  The Savvy Traveler
Follow host Diana Nyad and special guests around the world during this hour-long weekly magazine about modern travel, adventure, and recreation.
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Student Exercises
- Students listen to and read news reports and feature stories related to the countries they are studying. Some different ways to use the news sites: 1.) Students browse the main MPR News site, or the various program pages current week's news. 2.) Students read and listen to stories selected and previewed by the teacher. 3) Students conduct searches for stories related to the country they are studying.
- Students listen to the weekly Savvy Traveler feature stories to learn about different places in the world. They browse through the archives to learn about a variety of places or, if doing a research project on a particular place, search for stories and information about a particular place.
- Each week's Savvy Traveler show includes "postcard," a short travel essay written and read by a freelance writer. As students browse through these Postcards, they listen for how the writer tells a story and shares with listeners a sense of place. Students also pay attention to the use of music and sound effects that help tell the story and create an image of the place.
- After reviewing a "postcard," students conduct further research about the place described in the postcard, creating a travel brochure or descriptive writing piece about people or places they might see there.
- Students create their own "postcard" travel essay about a place they know well. Following the format of the Savvy Traveler postcards, students write a descriptive essay or story that includes many details about the place and people found there. Students create a script that includes use of music and sound effects to help create a sense of place. To give this activity a state, national, or world geography focus, have students select a particular place they are studying and create the postcard as if they had traveled there themselves. To keep the activity focused on creating a sense of place in their writing, have students focus on a local place they know well (e.g., a park, a part of the school, a community center).
Tips and Techniques
- Go to the main MPR News site as a starting point for all the news program sites or search for stories on particular places.
- To find a collection of the Postcard essays, search for the term "postcard" (note: not "postcards").
- Have students read the scripts or transcripts before, during, or after they listen to the audio clips.
- Remember to have students cite sources for information or quotations they use in reports, multi-media documents, or other educational projects, including photos and audio clips. Students should include the following information in their citation: document title or description, date of publication or when they found it on the Web, an address (URL), and, if possible, the author, photographer or artist.
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