I am getting ready to take my Modern History class on an excursion to Vietnam in three days. I’ve been planning this trip for ages so it’s kind of hard to believe that it is finally here. We are going to visit a whole range of cultural and historical places and sites and I’m hoping that it will be a wonderful experience for all of us. We are going to create a travel log while we are in Vietnam and the students are responsible for recording our experiences digitally and parents will be able to see what we are doing along the way. In pairs, students have picked two days that they will document in a written post, podcast or video. We have a media pack with a digital video and still camera, ipod and recorder and an iBook so I’m keen for them to have some fun documenting the trip. We have chosen to study Ho Chi Minh for the “personality of the 20th century” section of our HSC Modern History Course, so it will be cool for student to visit museums in Hue and Hanoi and most significantly talk to Vietnamese people about how they perceive “Uncle Ho”.

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