{"id":327,"date":"2017-12-03T19:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/?p=327"},"modified":"2017-12-03T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:19:39","slug":"a-travel-agency-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/a-travel-agency-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"U1 A1a &#8211; Travel Agency Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are some details of the making of the <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0035\/\">Assignment 1A<\/a> that Fiona and Alfonso worked together as a team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Crash-Image-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"159\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Crash-Image-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Crash-Image-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Crash-Image-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Crash-Image-1200x761.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 85vw, 251px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 251px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 251\/159;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sometimes it takes the feeling that you are going to crash to make yourself aware and take real action. Image retrieved from Creative Commons, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The crash course on design thinking left both of us with more questions than answers.\u00a0 Specially considering that we were asked to build an online training having as an example how to devise a new experience around giving\/receiving a gift&#8230; honestly, the example did not contribute much to the brainstorming session.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-331 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Compass-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"177\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Compass-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Compass-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Compass-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Compass-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/12\/Compass.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 85vw, 248px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 248px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 248\/177;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In life as when travelling knowing where you are going is important&#8230; enjoying the journey is vital. Image retrieved from Creative Commons, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We met twice in-person within one week: once in Vancouver and once in Victoria.\u00a0 Ironic, since we are in an online course, doing an assignment to develop an online training.\u00a0 Alfonso was having technical difficulties, so we planned a real-world work-around.\u00a0 For instance, when we agreed to meet in Vancouver, Fiona was in Victoria and Alfonso was in Monterrey, Mexico, and we connected using Zoom although on his end Alfonso had to type because the computer did not have a working microphone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few days later we had our first meeting in Vancouver, and worked through the d.school Design Thinking process at the Salsa &amp; Agave Mexican Grill on Fiona\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/remarkable.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ReMarkable Paper Tablet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 We met again to co-write the assignment&#8217;s blog post at Fiona\u2019s in Victoria.\u00a0 Please follow the link to <a href=\"\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0035\/assignment-1a-travel-planning-for-the-timid-traveller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assignment 1A in Fiona&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and provide us with your feedback on our work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are some details of the making of the Assignment 1A that Fiona and Alfonso worked together as a team. The crash course on design thinking left both of us with more questions than answers.\u00a0 Specially considering that we were asked to build an online training having as an example how to devise a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/a-travel-agency-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U1 A1a &#8211; Travel Agency Begins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}