Great Tours!

Barbara Abramoff Levy; Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd; Susan Porter Schreiber

doi:10.5771/9780759116757

Zusammenfassung

Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps you focus clearly on the material culture and significance of your site and then shows you how to use that focus to train and energize your guides. You will be able to move your tours to a fresh new level that is engaging and educational for visitors of all ages and abilities. Readings and workshop activities frame the process throughout and allow you to develop what is most appropriate for your site, while working to strike a realistic balance between ideals and every day reality. Great Tours! offers a unique combination of theoretical guidance and practical activities, supplemented by reproducible forms and a bibliography and index, that make it an invaluable resource for anyone involved with planning tours and training guides. Published in cooperation with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Visit their web page.

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Copyrightjahr: 2002
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7591-0099-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7591-1675-7
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 159
Produkttyp: Monographie

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Foreword Kein Zugriff
3. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
4. Preface Kein Zugriff
1. Introduction Kein Zugriff
2. 1 Preparation: Assemble the Facts Kein Zugriff
3. 1. 1. Reading 2.1: Storylines, Themes, Physical Evidence, Biographies, and Historical Context Kein Zugriff
  2. 1. Roundtable Worksheet 2.1: Using Material Culture and Biography to Interpret Historic Sites Kein Zugriff
    2. Roundtable Worksheet 2.2: Using Material Culture and Biography to Buildan Interpretive Tour Kein Zugriff
  3. Activity 2.3: Identifying the Site's Topics Kein Zugriff
  4. 1. Roundtable Worksheet 2.3: Outline: Using Sentences, Historical Context, Biographies, and Physical Evidence to Build Themes Kein Zugriff
4. 1. Site Staff Activity 3.1: Revising the Storyline for the Site Kein Zugriff
  2. 1. Reading 3.1: Storylines, Themes, Physical Evidence, Biographies, and Historical Context: Pulling It All Together Kein Zugriff
    2. Site Staff Worksheet 3.1: Drafting a Tour Outline Kein Zugriff
  3. Site Staff Activity 3.3: Testing the Thematic Tour Outline Kein Zugriff
  4. Site Staff Activity 3.4: Refining the Thematic Tour Outline Kein Zugriff
  5. Site Staff Activity 3.5: Testing and Revising the Thematic Tour Outline Kein Zugriff
  6. 1. Sample Material 3.1: Time Line for the Caleb Crawley House, 1763–81 Kein Zugriff
    2. Sample Material 3.2: Short Biographies for the Caleb Crawley House Kein Zugriff
1. Introduction Kein Zugriff
2. 4 Site Specifics and Historical Context Kein Zugriff
3. 1. 1. Reading 5.1: Interpreting Material Culture: A Five-Step Approach Kein Zugriff
    2. Reading 5.2: Asking Questions of Material Culture Kein Zugriff
  2. 1. Worksheet 5.1: Five Steps to Interpret Material Culture Kein Zugriff
  3. 1. Worksheet 5.2: Using Material Culture to Build an Interpretive Tour Kein Zugriff
4. 1. Activity 6.1: Thematic Tours vs. Non-thematic Tours Kein Zugriff
  2. Activity 6.2: An Introduction to the Components of a Thematic Tour—Storylines, Themes, Physical Evidence, Biographies, and Historical Context Kein Zugriff
  3. Activity 6.3: The Storyline Kein Zugriff
  4. Activity 6.4: Historical Context—Discussion Kein Zugriff
  5. Activity 6.5: Finding the Site's Topics Kein Zugriff
  6. Activity 6.6: Identifying the Site's Themes Kein Zugriff
  7. 1. Worksheet 6.1: Interpreting Multiple Perspectives: People, Places, Objects, and Themes Kein Zugriff
  8. Activity 6.8: Interpreting Multiple Perspectives, Part 2 Kein Zugriff
  9. 1. Worksheet 6.2: Using Evidence to Interpret Themes Kein Zugriff
  10. Activity 6.10: Practice, Practice, Practice Kein Zugriff
5. 1. 1. Worksheet 7.1: Taking a Tour from the Audience Perspective Kein Zugriff
  2. 1. Reading 7.1: Good Communication Skills: Tips for Guides Kein Zugriff
  3. Activity 7.3: Adapting the Message to the Audience Kein Zugriff
  4. 1. Reading 7.2: The Five Stages of Human Learning: Tips for Guides Kein Zugriff
  5. Activity 7.5: Special Needs Audiences Kein Zugriff
  6. 1. Reading 7.3: Interpreting Slavery at Historic Sites: Tips for Guides Kein Zugriff
  7. Activity 7.7: Interpreting Sensitive Topics to the Public, Part 2 Kein Zugriff
  8. Activity 7.8: Voice Kein Zugriff
  9. Activity 7.9: Gesture Kein Zugriff
1. 1. Form 8.1: Duties of the Guiding Staff at the Caleb Crawley House Kein Zugriff
  2. Form 8.2: Caleb Crawley House Interpretive Guide Application Kein Zugriff
  3. Form 8.3: Caleb Crawley House Guide Agreement Kein Zugriff
  4. Form 8.4: Guide Training Checklist Kein Zugriff
  5. Form 8.5: Mentor/Trainee Agreement Kein Zugriff
  6. Form 8.6: Mentor Checklist Kein Zugriff
  7. Form 8.7: Caleb Crawley House Program Review Kein Zugriff
  8. Form 8.8: Caleb Crawley House Annual Tour Review Kein Zugriff
  9. Form 8.9: Self-Evaluation Questionnaire Kein Zugriff
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 154
About the Authors Kein Zugriff Seiten 155 - 156
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 157 - 159