Rogers Centre

Have you ever watched a Canadian football match?

You have to continue visiting this amazing city of Toronto and your next stop is at the Rogers Centre, a massive domed sports arena. The unique design includes a roof that can be opened in good weather. This huge structure, which was finished in 1989, was built to compete with Montreal Olympic Stadium.

Rogers Centre can accommodate many thousands of spectators and is a venue for every kind of sport, baseball and football in particular, as well as for rock and pop concerts. The centre also offers a one hour guided tour.

At the end of the session, you will have:

read and written down some information about Rogers Centre.
started doing some research on your Google Site project.
opened your Learning Diary and started writing your first post of this Project.

Would you like to go inside this huge stadium? What would you like to do inside? A concert or a football match? How much do you know about Canadian football? As you can do quite a lot of different things in this stadium, you will have to plan your visit and obtain certain information about it. In order to do so, you must check its official website and write down the most, in your opinion, outstanding facts about this place.

Remember that the Rogers Centre must be part of the route at your Google Sites map.

Continue with your posts on Twitter. Which fact about the Stadium has impressed you the most? Tweet about it using the hashtags #taskadvice and #EDIAtoronto. The 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job in this social network.

If I were you, I would visit the Stadium.

As you have already read, some Canadian football matches are held at the Rogers Centre. Canada has the official Canadian Football League (nothing to do with Canadian soccer).

Visit the CFL (Canadian Football League) website and choose one of the players from the list. Each of you has to choose one of the players and select a couple of things that you consider interesting and relevant about him.

Send a tweet with the link of the page of the football player you have chosen and to the post of your learning diary where you have written some of the most significant aspects of that player: height, weight, age, when he was born, etc. Remember to use the project hashtags.

As a result of this activity, you have to create a list with all the football players you have worked with. You have to upload this list to your personal blog.

In order to create the list of the CFL players using the links of your posts from your learning diaries, you can use some online tools:

When you finish, you can share your link through Twitter using the hashtags of this project: #taskadvice and #EDIAtoronto. The 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job in this social network.

Your challenge: Toronto, here we go!

Challenge Step 2: Getting to know what is required and starting with the research

At this stage, once you have set up your teams and created your Google Site, you have to continue with the entry of one of the most famous cities in Canada, Toronto, for the English-speaking cities challenge.

The city of Toronto is the capital city of the Ontario State. Even though Toronto is a huge city, the capital city of Canada is Ottawa. This is one of the ten provinces and three territories that Canada is composed of.

Mzajac. *The Maple Leaf Flag of Canada* (CC0)

As you have seen in this section, Canada is made up of 10 different States and three territories. Each one of them has its own flag and its own capital city.

The minimum requirements for your google site entry that your group has to fulfill in order to pass this challenge successfully include:

the map of the city from Google Maps with the route of the ten stops we have in our tour of the city.
one video about tourism in the city,
some text about what tourists can do in the city,
And two links to printable guides, leaflets, brochures, and so forth.

In order to complete the challenge, you are suggested to look up the some websites:

These are the suggested websites where you can obtain a lot of information for your challenge. But you can do your research with any other interesting websites about this city and country.

In order to produce the best possible design for this challenge, you have to take into account the following rubric: 'Rubric for assessing the design of a digital site'.

Learning Diary

Step 1: Start your blog-portfolio

One of the activities you have to do is a "Learning Diary". You can do it by opening a blog where you can explain in your first post different aspects of your research such as:

How you have divided the different tasks and the research you have done.
All the steps you have followed so far in your investigation.
The links you have already visited in your challenge.

If you have already opened up a blog in another project, just add these reflections in another page. Remember that creativity is going to be really important in developing the project.

This is a perfect moment for you to check your work. Press the button and answer the questions in your blog.

Remember to share the link of your learning diary through Twitter using the hashtag: #taskadvice and #EDIAtoronto. The 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job in this social network.

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