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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- I would like to share my recent stay at Best Western Seven Sea in San Diego. I was planning a 2 day trip to San Diego to spend a day at the San Diego Zoo and a day at SeaWorld. I was traveling alone on a mini vacation. I knew I wanted to stay at a well known hotel/motel with a good reputation. I have stayed at Best Western all over the country including many trips overseas. I like that the Best Western Seven was in hotel circle and it was close to all the major attractions, restaurant and provided a shuttle service.
I was going to be traveling alone and need a set plan to go by so I called Best Western Seven Sea to ask them about their shuttle service. I explain my travel plans. I was going to be flying in on 11/7/12 at 9 am and I was going to take a taxi straight to the zoo and that I would need to catch the shuttle back to the hotel. On 11/8/12 I was going to need a ride to SeaWorld and then I was going to need a ride back, so that I could catch a ride to the airport to catch my flight back to Houston.
I was told that the shuttle will pick up at the Zoo at 4:30 pm everyday. The hotel shuttle would be picking up their guest at the hotel at 9:30 am to take them to SeaWorld and the shuttle would be picking up the guest from SeaWorld at 5:30 pm to bring them back to the hotel. I told the person at Best Western that that was perfect and that I would be booking my trip with them. After that I booked my trip. A week before my trip I called Best Western to confirm the shuttle schedule and was told to call the day I arrived.
On 11/7/12 9:00 am my flight landed so on my way to the zoo in the taxi I called Best Western to let them know that I was going to be checking in at 5:00 pm and that I would need to catch the shuttle at 4:30 pm. The girl who I spoke with just said to wait outside the zoo at 4:30 pm, she was quick to hang up on me but I stopped her and ask her what kind of shuttle I should be looking for.
At 4:30 pm I was standing in front of the zoo looking for the shuttle but I didn't see one, so at 4:35 pm (my phone shows that was the time I called Best Western). I called Best Western to ask if the shuttle was running late. I was told to hold and the girl got back on the phone to tell me that the shuttle already left. Left? When did this shuttle pick? Did this shuttle bother to stop or did the shuttle just drove by??? How is it that the shuttle came at 4:30 but was long gone at 4:35???
I ask the girl who they picked up because it wasn't me. I was put back on hold then she came back on the line to tell me that they picked up the one person who was scheduled to be picked up and that person wasn't me. I told her how I called 6 weeks ago and I also called a week ago and I called earlier that morning explaining that I needed the shuttle to pick me up from the zoo. So told me that the shuttle could come back for me in 2 hours. How is it possible that a shuttle that was to arrive at 4:30 was so far away by 4:35 that it would take them 2 hours to come back for me?
I explained to the girl that I was traveling alone and that I didn't know anyone in San Diego. With the time change for daylight saving it got darker faster and it's colder really fast. I explain all this to the girl and she just told me to call a taxi or I could just wait till 6:30 for the shuttle then she hung up on me. I sat on the bench and waiting for almost 2 hours in the cold and dark waiting for the shuttle. It got so cold that a girl selling t-shirt felt sorry for me and offered me a ride to the hotel. Thanks for nothing Best Western!
When I arrived at the hotel to check in I ask her where the shuttle was and sure enough the shuttle and the driver arrived. I guess I was not important enough to come pick up. All the girl said to me was that it wasn't 6:30 yet and that the shuttle would have picked me up at 6:30! Are you serious? Is this how you guys ran business? How do you stay in business? I then asked for the manager and was told that the manager would be out all week and that one of the little girl was in change. If you call ignoring me and turning her back on me whispering to her co-worker being in charge.
Everyone there was rude and blamed me for not being checked in that morning. I told them that I called 3 times in 6 weeks to confirm the shuttle service schedule and everyone all told me the same thing and I was rushed off the phone. I was like, "okay". Best Western does not care about their customers nor do you care that you left a young woman at the zoo in a strange city in the cold and dark sitting on the bench. I told them that I will be up and ready the next morning to catch the 9:30 am shuttle to SeaWorld and for them to please not leave me again. I got no apology or anything so I just went to my room.
The next morning as I was waiting for the shuttle I watch as a new quest checked in and wanted to catch the shuttle but they were told that the shuttle was busy and they could just call a taxi. I'm glad it wasn't just me. You guys are horrible and unreliable! As I waiting for the shuttle I noticed that there was a gentle man that turn out to be the manager. What do you know? You guys do have a manager? I ask him to confirm the time the shuttle was picking up because I did not want to be left again. The manager said 6:00 pm!
What the hell happened to 5:30? Do you guys make up schedule as you go? You are incompetent!!! After explaining to the manager that I was left at the zoo the night before he said he will have the shuttle pick me and another couple up from SeaWorld at 4:30 pm. The shuttle was supposed to pick us up at 4:30 and bring us all back to the hotel. Then the shuttle would take me to the airport at 5:00 to catch my flight.
Best Western went and did it again. At 4:45 when the shuttle picked us up from SeaWorld and deliver us to the hotel I had asked the driver if he would be going to the airport and he said NO!!! I got off the shuttle and went to the front desk while the shuttle drove away. I asked the front desk if a shuttle was going to the airport and the girl said it was supposed to but it's not. Yes, this is really how you run business. I had to take a taxi to the airport since I was lied to again. While I waited for the taxi I watch more people come to the front desk to ask about the shuttle service and they were all told to just call a taxi.
I have never in all my years of travel see a company run this way. There is no rhyme or reason or schedule in anything you do. I have stayed at hotels/motel all around the world and have never been treated like the way I was treated. It wasn't just me. There were at least 6 other people that I personally witnessed who were turned away. I don't think I should have to pay for a taxi when I pay for a hotel that had a shuttle service.
How could you leave a paying customer at the zoo and tell them to wait 2 hours while the driver may or may not pick them up? I have told anyone that would listen what happened to me. I will never stay or let a friend stay at another Best Western. I have booked my trip to Spain with Best Western but I am cancelling it because I will not waste another penny with such an incompetent company that would treat loyal customer so poorly.
WEST COVINA (GARVEY ST), CALIFORNIA -- Myself, sisters, mother, aunt and children all stayed at the Best Western on Garvey ave. in Covina California on Friday 4-12 through 4-16. We came to town to see our grandmother all the way from Oregon and Montana! We were only in the hotel in the evenings because we were visiting family during the days.
On Sunday was our first problem. I sent my daughter to grab shampoo from the desk and the gentleman was very snotty and rude to her about coming down alone, so he called me in the room and was very rude about it! I am a paying customer and if I want to send my daughter for shampoo then it is my business. Then on Monday night we got back to the hotel around 9 pm and my sister and mother were going to take our kids down to the pool to swim for a bit. The kids ran down the hall to the elevator. They were not loud.
When they got to the 1st floor the employee greeted them with crossed arms telling them that our kids are too loud and people are complaining and sick with diabetes. My family told the guy, "Well our kids have not been here all day and we are just going down to let them get energy out. We haven't had any complaints yet so it must not have been our children."
When the employee was rude back that puts my family on the defense! The employee told my family he was going to send out the sick man to talk to them! Sure enough he came out and started yelling at my sister, and excuse my language but he said, "You are a **, and if you wouldn't have opened your legs you wouldn't have these problems running around!" Then he asked her if she wanted to fight!!!!
My sister feeling threatened gave him a push. Well the cops were called and came up banging on my door at 930 pm. After talking with them and they even said they questioned why the employee would send another guest out after he was clearly angry... So the cops left and we thought everything was OK! Come 430 am my sister's car alarm starts going off and she had a few attempts of someone trying to bust the windshield and when that didn't work they busted the back windows out.
The cops were called back again! We tried talking to the front desk to talk with a manager and all we got was a run around. The manager will be in at 1230. Well we were supposed to be on the road at 5 am and it was now 9am. We can't wait any longer with a 13 hour drive ahead if us.
So I left my name and number and at about 7 pm a man calls me to try to resolve the matter and I'm not 100 percent sure but I think he said his name was **!? Well he apologized and tried saying it was the angry customer who was just out to fight and his employee couldn't handle it himself so the guy took it upon himself to deal with it and was really trying to make it better.
I asked for my mother's, aunt's and my rooms refunded but all he said he could do was give us 2 nights free in that hotel whenever we want! Well after all that has happened and the very rude ** at the desk none if us will ever stay there ever again! We all would like to be refunded our money. Our rooms were 220, 222, 223.
OREGON, CALIFORNIA -- I am from out of town and frustrated by what happened during my visit to Portland. I need help exposing this scam and assuring that businesses do not engage in unscrupulous tactics such as this. My recent stay at Best Western Inn at the Meadows has been one of the worst travel experiences of my life. I was falsely, and unlawfully charged a $500 a smoking fee despite the fact that smoking did not occur in the room. The manager is basing this solely on his discriminatory opinion and bias.
My credit card was initially charged $500 on 3/23/13 for a smoking fee, that charged was reversed soon after, a subsequent charge of $352.68 was made on 3/23/13, the charge for $352.68 was then voided and my card was again unlawfully charged $500. This is a blatant attempt to steal my money. I fully comprehended the non-smoking policy, and I was well aware of the fees associated with violation of this policy.
Also, having worked in Property Management for several years, and being a non-smoker myself, I completely understand and agree with this policy. I checked in on 3/22/13 directly off of a flight from Hawaii. I was only physically in the room for approximately eleven hours total before exiting the property for over 24 hours at around 11:00 am on the 3/23/13. I left Portland for the night to continue my vacation and upon return around 10:30 pm the following night I noticed neither of my door keys worked.
I proceeded to the front desk, showed my identification and returned to my room to rest after a very long day. The front desk then proceeded to call my room near midnight, demanding I come down to discuss something. In all of my years of staying at hotels dispute, issue, or whatever the situation I have never been instructed to get out of bed at midnight, put on my clothing, and engage in dialogue with the front desk clerks, not even management, to settle a matter.
When I arrived at the front desk I was greeted by a very rude and unprofessional employee that was not previously at the desk when I was there earlier, (fixing my keys that coincidentally had been deactivated). This employee proceeded to shove a paper across the desk at me instructing me to sign a "smoking fee." I immediately disputed this! It was past midnight, I had no idea what was going on, this is the first I've ever heard of such a thing, I had not smoked in the room or even been there for 24 hours for that matter. There is no basis for this charge other than assumption and no evidence irrefutable, conclusive, or otherwise that smoking occurred in the room.
Furthermore, I was not provided with proof that services for a room recovery were actually completed by your hotel. It is my understanding that a merchant needs my signature to validate a charge and I need proof that a violation has or had occurred and proof that services were rendered (which was not provided). When I got upset and disputed the charge on check out the manager increased the fee from $362.68 to $500 which posted to my account on 3/25/13 subsequent to check out and following our unpleasant discussion!
This was unauthorized and charged solely because he didn't like what I had to say to him. The manager has been completely uncooperative, unfair, unkind, and unprofessional. He has failed to provide any contact information for anyone besides himself. He stated he was owner and manager and I had to go through him. He gave me nothing written, provided no dispute policy, and said I had no recourse, it was his opinion I had smoked therefore I was paying the fee. I am currently working with my financial institution to fight these unauthorized charges and recoup my losses.
I am in no way paying any $500 smoking fee charged to my account by the Best Western Inn at the Meadows, for the simple fact that no one smoked in the room. Each establishment is independently owned, however, Best Western Inn at the Meadows is a horrible example of what a customer service oriented business should be. I sincerely hope my experience wasn't indicative of how they treat all of their guests. Having worked both in the customer service industry and management, along with traveling frequently, I am still having trouble conveying to you how astounded I am by the unprofessional treatment by those working at Best Western Inn at the Meadows and their theft of $500.
LUSK, WYOMING -- The Problem: We stopped at the Best Western Lusk hotel because of the many bill boards on our journey from Mount Rushmore to Casper. The bill boards advertised a hot breakfast. Since we have always had good experiences with Best Western we decided to book a room.
Once establishing that there was a room available and a rate that was satisfactory, we checked in. After we checked in we were informed that there would be no hot breakfast as there would be some electric outage that would prevent making a hot breakfast. Although we were not happy with this (especially since she told us after we checked in), we did not think that was an overwhelming reason to go elsewhere. We were not informed that there would be no electricity in our hotel room. I am aware that the hotel believes that the clerk did inform us, and perhaps she thought she had, but she did not (both my husband and I were there).
At about 6:30 am I went to take a shower and there was no electricity. As you may be aware it is extremely dark in the bathroom as there are no windows in the bathroom in our unit. I am sure that you will agree that the ability to take a shower in a safe environment (having light) in a fundamental part of renting a room. Although we could enter the ice room with our room key, we were not able to get any ice as the electricity was out.
The Remedy: I am requesting a 50% refund of our room rate. We paid $99 (with tax $107). The reason I feel strongly about this is that, apparently, the electrical outage was known and not some random event. Charging customers full price for only partial service is an intentional breach of our contract (we pay you money for a room and you give us a room with a bed, bathing facilities, toilet). Further the advertised a hot breakfast was not provided. If we had known that there would be no electricity (which your motel did know) we would have continued on our trip.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- This was the worst hotel I have ever stayed at. It started with all the outlets were broke in the room. We could not turn on any lights nor charge our phone. In order to have any light we used the very loud bathroom/fan light which kept up my kids. The ac unit is on the way out as well and took hours to cool this very small room. It was extremely loud. The TV had terrible reception so watching anything we had to look through lines.
The fridge was 100% broken so all our food and drinks spoiled. WiFi was so bad that we never got a strong enough signal to get access to internet. There was a large gap under the door to the outside big enough to put a sandal all the way outside while door was closed. Hello bugs! We tried to go down to the vending machine to just learn they were both out of order.
We then tried to go to the pool and there were no pool lights. Zero. This place is so run down. Swimming in pitch black no thanks... Kids felt scared. When we went to bed we smelled the sheets... Yuck!!! The next morning I went to make coffee and noticed the coffee straws were all previously used... GROSS! I just had enough.
I went to the front desk and the girl got her Supervisor who was so rude... She couldn't care less that anything was wrong. She offered me ten dollars back and said thanks for coming. I have since tried to reach the hotel Manager and verified he was in fact on property when I called several times but was put to his voice mail. He has never called back. I have left several messages. I believe this hotel is running a scam... I can't understand why they continue to rent this room out knowing all these things were wrong. I will never go back.
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA -- I thought you can assist me in lodging a complaint against Best Western Hotels. I had a confirmed reservation number of **. I applied my AAA discount and requested that my reward points are applied to my reward points account#: **. I made this reservation in May of 2012. Realizing this was peak season for the Minnesota State Fair I booked as soon as I had confirmation from friends also arriving for the festivities.
I also made another reservation for accommodations at the same location for 7 Dec to 9 Dec 2012 for an upcoming examination I am required to take for my employment. Confirmation # **. Now, you can imagine my dismay when I received a phone call around the dinner hour on 20 August 2012 telling me that I was about to be pre-charged for services I had not yet received.
When I protested I was told that I my reservations would be cancelled and my room would be given to a party that can pay now. (Actually a ruse to charge a higher premium rate for last minute travelers.) What stymies me the most is…. That this is an unwarranted. Yet, a new benefit of The Best Western rewards program. I am shocked to see that Best Western would cancel a confirmed room in pursuit of the all mighty dollar.
Best Western has the ability to fix this miscarriage of hospitality. I sincerely hope that there management team will look into this and correct. I am not asking to profit from this. Just return whole. Until Best Western Best western corrects this I will cancel my upcoming stay in December 2012. I will further use any resource and media available to spread the word of the sub-standard service one can expect from Best Western Hotels.
I will alert all my business associates, travel agencies I am acquainted with, colleagues, friends and family to not walk but run away from Best Western Hotels. I am considering using social media, blogs, to spread the word. Business Classes in college taught me it takes years to build a solid reputation…and one stupid act to destroy it. So I beg you Best Western Hotels...Please fix this.
SANTORINI -- Best Western ruined our family vacation we planned for over 2 years. The management at the hotel was rude and the hotel is misrepresented on the internet. The accommodations at the Paradise Hotel Akrotiri 847 00 Santorini, are not what we expect from Best Western - the worlds largest chain.
The free breakfast was awful, almost an insult to the guests. Each morning we received the same thing: 3 slices of stale bread, one boiled egg, a thin slice of cheese, one slice of bologna and a piece of cake. On the breakfast bar there was only one type of cereal served with hot milk. The milk was either made from instant powder or was watered down and was undrinkable. There were also some stale cookies, served from previous days since no one would eat them.
There was no home-made food, and there was no bar. I would not call what we had a shower in the room. We had a bathtub faucet with a hose attached. There was no bathtub and no place to hang the hose. For the time, let's call it a shower. Not having a place to hang the hose made it very uncomfortable to take a "shower". I had to hold the hose for the kids so they could wash. My husband and I had to shower with one hand, the other hand holding the hose. If you dropped the hose, water would spray all over the bathroom. There was no shower curtain and the bathroom floor was continuously wet.
We complained that there was no hot water in the morning. The front desk manager yelled that it was impossible not to have hot water and told us to let the water run for 2 minutes. We did let the water run, and it took far longer than 2 minutes. The next morning we timed it. It took 10 minutes to have warm water and 12 minutes to have hot water. This problem was compounded by the fact that the pipes would bang inside the walls when the shower was running. It sounded like someone firing an automatic rifle. I experienced better conditions camping.
One afternoon when we came back from the beach, there was no hot water. The front desk person laughed, saying that there was a big demand for water, lots of people coming from the beach, not just us. He did not even go to check to see if the water heater was working properly. The towels in the bathroom that we received had seen better days, they looked 10 years old. They were no longer white, but a pale shade of grey. One towel used to have a floral print, was a pale blue faded rag. Maybe the hotel staff had used them and they did not want to throw them away and decided they were fit for the guests.
No towels were provided at the pool and we've been asked not to use the room towels. I did not expect that a full service hotel, that advertises bar at the pool not to provide towels. The bathroom sink pedestal was loose and would shift about if you touched the basin. There was also a large shelf above the sink that made it almost impossible to wash your face.
When we checked in, we were provided with the room key as well as remote controls for the TV and for the AC unit. The AC unit was functional only if the key was in the room, since we had to put the room key inside an apparatus on the wall to enable the use of the electricity in the room. When we stopped by the hotel during the day, the room would be like an oven and it would take 2-3 hours to cool it off.
The beds did not have even light blankets, just sheets. The pillows were old, and disgusting. The family running the hotel - mother, son and the father, continuously harassed us. No manners, no people skills, nothing, just a rude family, who made our vacation miserable. They must have training from Osama Bin Laden how to "properly" run a hotel.
One day we were spending time at the pool. The kids were diving from the diving board. The older person in charge came charging out yelling and scaring my kids in my presence! He was telling them to stop jumping of the diving board, by yelling "What is this? What is this?" I asked him respectfully not to yell and the diving board is there for people to use. He turned his back to me, and began cursing in Greek.
A day later when we were at the pool again, my husband was asked not to sit with his wet swimming trunks on the pool furniture. Another time we attempted to enjoy a beautiful day at the pool, the woman in charge came out and started to move the pool furniture away, turning the chairs so they faced the wall of a flower bed. This pool furniture was made out of plastic, no pillows. All of these actions were intended to harass us and to spoil our time.
One morning at 7:45 the kids wanted to go to the pool. There was a family of Germans already using the pool, and I told them it would be OK to go for a swim before breakfast. The second they went in the water, the woman from front desk came out advising us that we cannot use the pool before 8 am. My husband had the kids come out of the pool and the woman seemed satisfied. The other family was still in the pool! This rule must have only applied to us since the other family had been in the pool since 7:30. They sure did not want to miss an opportunity to spoil our day.
Once we came up for the "a la cart" breakfast, 5 minutes before 8 am, the older guy in charge came to our table and in a very rude tone of voice advises us that breakfast is served at 8 o'clock. This was towards the end of our stay, so we knew very well what time the breakfast was served. They made it a very hostile environment to be in.
On the website the hotel is presented as pet friendly. There was a large white dog with red collar that would come on property everyday. For a while we thought that the dog belonged to a hotel guest or the property owners. The kids liked the dog and played with him. During one hot day, the dog started digging and lied down in a geranium flower bed. The woman manager came storming down to our room and yelling at us to see what the dog did.
I tried to explain to her nicely that is not our fault that we did not bring the dog there, but all we got was another dose of Greek cursing. My kids were also upset when they saw the woman manager throwing rocks at a cat that was sleeping in the shade. We saw the cat on another occasion noticing it had been blinded in one eye. We do not know if this injury resulted from the actions of the woman at the hotel, but try to convince our kids of that. They were very upset by the chain of events.
Because we had been harassed and inconvenienced daily by the family running this hotel, we did not trust them to provide us with a wake up call. If we missed the flight we would have to pay extra expenses. So, the day before our departure, I asked my family in US to call me in the morning for the wake up call. The front desk would pick up the call and hang up the phone. They never transferred a call to our room.
At 6 AM when we opened the door to put the luggage in the car and head for the airport, before checking out, the woman from front desk walked into our room uninvited for a site inspection. No hello, good morning or anything, she just burst in, without a greeting of any kind. She likely wanted to make sure we are not running away with the little TV, the rags that were supposed to pass for towels, or maybe some chairs. She took the remote controls for the TV and air conditioner.
I want also to mention that we are not the only unhappy guest at this property. There were numerous families that were very unsatisfied. When a guest from Germany came to us to talk about services received, she was rudely interrupted by the woman at front desk not to talk to other guest. I was very intrigued by the rudeness of this family running the hotel, not just with us, but with all guest from different countries.
I've also been double charged for our stay, probably to block funds on our credit card. Customer service offered me 100.00 for future stay at the Best Western. I will never stay at this chain again. I traveled all over the world and I never meet such rude people to run a hotel, and such a dumpy hotel to charge 145 euros per night for 4 people in the room.
, AUSTRIA -- My complaint is against the Best Western Hotel Erzherzog Rainer. 1040 Vienna, Wiedner HauptstraÃe 27-29, Austria. T (+43-1-) 501 11 0; F (+43-1-) 501 11 350. On July 27th 2007 I booked one single room for six nights, for September 23rd, 2007. I did it online, through the site BOOKING.COM. At the time of my booking the web-site clearly stated that cancellations prior to two days before the booking date would be free of charge. It was also stated that my credit card would not be charged, and the full amount would only be paid in my arrival at the hotel.
However, as I booked it, for some unknown reason, the date came for August 23rd 2007 and not for September 2007. I then contacted the hotel to change the date (to September) or to cancel my reservation. They said that the hotel was fully booked for September and they charged my credit card for the FULL AMOUNT of six nights, which was 391â¬. That was when I saw that, at the booking confirmation, a very different cancellation policy was stated:
Cancellation policy: Please note, if cancelled or modified, the total price of the reservation will be charged. My comment: The hotel placed this crazy "cancellation with full payment" policy only AFTER the booking confirmation. Think with me, what is the point of having this cancellation policy if the full amount is charged anyway? If the hotel wanted to be fair, they should NOT cancel my reservation, so I would be charged BUT the room would be booked and available.
The way they did, I was charged AND the room was canceled. Of course, the hotel booked this room to somebody else and made a cool double profit on my expenses. Is it fair? Is it honest? Then the Hotel offered to me a one-night voucher (written "depending on availability") after charging me for six nights. This is an insult ridiculous and an insult for my intelligence. I wrote emails to BOOKING.COM, the Hotel Erzherzog Rainer and to the Tourism Service Government Agency in Vienna, Austria.
We rented a room at the Best Western on Water St., in Port Huron Twp., MI. from Sept. 26 through Oct. 5th while we were having home renovations done. We were charged $55.00 night and $110.00 on the week-end. Our room was non-smoking. My initial observation was: the lobby area, elevator and hallways were extremely uncomfortable and hot. No air was in use. We were on 2nd floor- 2nd to last at the end. The carpeting was extremely stained and dirty. It was evident that it hadn't been cleaned in a long time.
The first time I put my entrance card in the door, it would not work. I had to turn around, walk back to the elevator with all my baggage, go to the desk and have card re-activated. (Never even used!) I then had to wait for the elevator and walk back down the hallway to my room. The very 1st thing I noticed was that the room although clean, smelled horribly of cigarettes. It upset my stomach. I am used to being around cigarette smoke, as my husband smokes, but never inside our home. This odor was overwhelming.
We had no intention of sleeping at the hotel, only using the shower or tub. There was no way I could have stayed in that room overnight. There was a card on the dresser that said the room was non-smoking, and that there would be an automatic fee assessed to an account if there was any smoking. This did not make sense to me-someone was smoking, heavily in that room and it wasn't me! I took a bath, and climbed into bed to relax.
Around 10 am, there was a loud knocking on my door. As I responded "just a minute" (not fully dressed), my door opened and a female yelled in that she needed dirty towels. The top lock was on the door, so she could only open it a few inches, but wide enough for me to see her and her to see me. I was infuriated. I paid for privacy, and at NO time should an employee walk in an occupied room! I dressed and went directly to the manager, and advised him of the smoking smell and the episode of the "towel lady" walking in my room. He simply apologized.
Later that day, my son went to the hotel, and his room card did not work. He too had to walk back to the elevator with baggage in hand, go to the front desk and have it re-activated. This issue happened on at least 10 different occasions. This was frustrating, as the hotel was informed of our extended stay.
The following day, a female employee came up to me as I entered the hotel and advised me that she sprayed freshener in our room. I asked her if it smelled like smoke to her, and she said that she was a smoker, and yes-it did smell like smoke. The only logical explanation is that the hotel employees did smoke consistently in this non-smoking room. My husband was only there 1 time and he did NOT ever smoke in that room. The room continued to smell heavily of cigarette smoke during our entire stay.
The room was kept clean with plenty of towels available. But, we were very dissatisfied with the inconvenience of the deactivated room card, and the smoke smell. I am also upset that an employee would barge into an occupied room without permission.
I paid almost $800.00 for our 9 night stay, and I definitely feel this was excessive. We would not consider using Best Western Hotel again because of these complaints. There was never any suggestion or offer for a discount or adjustment. Thank you.
32124 25TH AVENUE SOUTH, FEDERAL WAY -, WASHINGTON -- We showed up at 3:30 to check into our room that was to be ready at 3:00 and it was not. We waited in the lobby with two expensive race bicycles and all of our belongings until after 4:00 when our room finally became available. We ended up in a handicap room with a heater that didn't work.
The next morning we woke up to pounding on the door. For a moment I forgot where we stayed that night and was quite startled by the ruckus. I asked "who's there" and was told to open up immediately and that it was "an emergency". I went to the door and looked through the peep hole. I observed a dark skinned man wearing black jeans, and a business suit with no name tag before he covered the peep hole with his finger.
I grabbed boxer shorts and a ball point pen off the table and slowly cracked the door. The person who was later identified as the manager ** pushed the door the rest of the way open and quickly barged into the room. My girlfriend covered herself up the rest of the way and fled to the corner of the room. ** stated that the police were on the way and that we were being evicted from the room immediately for smoking and that there was a $500.00 smoking charge.
I later realized that we were being accused of smoking marijuana and not just or only cigarettes. We packed our things to leave as requested. ** frantically looked around the room for evidence to his claim. ** even exceeded his legal rights and began moving our things around looking for evidence. ** told my girlfriend she needed to sign a paper accepting a $500 charge that stated we smoked marijuana/cigarettes in the room.
Of course she refused to do so. We asked what evidence they had we were responsible for this action. ** stated to my girlfriend "that the whole hallway smelled like marijuana". I asked again how they knew that we were responsible for this. ** stated that "I'm not talking to you, I'm only talking to the card holder". Kind of ironic since I was the one asking the questions yet he was responding to her.
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There was no investigation, no arrest for illegal activity of any kind or police report filed. The responding officers were observant of the situation but remained respectable to both sides the entire process. Witnessing that no evidence was provided by management upon request they suggested that we "take the matter to a corporate level". I ended up chatting with the officers about their squad cars for a bit as part of my profession includes outfitting emergency/patrol vehicles with communication and tech equipment.
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(In which I take on the football-industrial complex again.)
Big-time college football is no longer a sport. It's a very expensive entertainment industry with commercial sponsors, big-money television contracts, and highly paid executives. Its proponents have corrupted the mission of almost every university with a large football program, especially those in the NCAA's top division. It's time to acknowledge that this large, expensive entertainment business should be expelled from campus.
No, I'm not talking about Penn State. (Not this week, that is. I wrote about Penn State's scandal in a New York Times forum last week.) This week we have another scandal, which illustrates all too well how football will crush any forces that might try to rein it in, including university presidents. Here's the scenario:
- Pay $2 million to buy out the old coach and hire a more exciting one, even though the team is having its best season in years.
- Hire that new coach for another $2 million, who has now produced a losing season (2 wins,
910 losses), leaving games with even lower attendance than last year.
- Because football is still losing money, get rid of 8 other varsity sports.
This is a bad joke, right? No! This is exactly what the University of Maryland just did. Last week, U. Maryland (where I was a professor until this past summer) announced it was eliminating 8 varsity sports teams to make up for the fact that football was losing too much money. I kid you not. Here's what they are cutting: men's cross-country, indoor track, outdoor track, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's acrobatics and tumbling, women's swimming and diving, and women's water polo.
The president of U. Maryland, Wallace Loh, issued a report that he sent to all students and faculty, describing the tortured reasoning that led to this sorry state of affairs. In it, he illustrates how he and his administration have completely lost sight of their real mission. Poor Dr. Loh: he came into the job only a year ago, with good qualifications to run a major educational institution, but no qualifications to run a football program. After all, why should he?
It's not because football is good for the university, despite the claims of some fans. Just to check, I compared the rankings of the top 25 football teams to the academic rankings of their universities. This graph shows the result.
As you can see, there is no correlation at all – the football team's ranking gives you no indication of the overall academic quality of a school.
So why cut eight other teams when football is failing? Dr. Loh explains:
"In a time of constrained resources, we have to choose: should we have fewer programs so that they can be better supported and, hence, more likely to be successful at the highest level? Or, should we keep the large number of programs that are undersupported compared to their conference peers?"
There you have it. We can't keep all these programs around if they're not winning! "Successful at the highest level" – such broken logic, such nonsense from the president of a major university, is almost enough to make me cry. Obviously, Dr. Loh thinks that "successful" means we beat the other schools' teams. But his own report says that a university's core mission is "education, research, and the arts." Did he evaluate these sports teams based on how well the students are educated? No: what matters is whether a team wins.
And of course there's money: if the football team wins, then the university can make money from oh-so-lucrative television contracts! Dr. Loh acknowledges this:
"If we believe—as I do—that intercollegiate athletics is an integral part of the college educational experience and not only commercialized mass entertainment, then we must come together to reform this financial model …. We have to reset the balance between academics and big-time athletics."
I'll say. But despite these nice-sounding phrases, Dr. Loh's "reform" consists of eliminating eight other varsity teams. Nothing about reigning in football's costs, and certainly nothing about making sure the players themselves get a good education and have a future after college. This is the essence of how big-time football has corrupted America's universities. We pay the players nothing, we give them a lousy education (many of them don't even graduate), and then the university spits them out and moves on.
I've heard the cries of protest from football supporters: football makes money! It subsidizes all the other sports! Oddly, even Dr. Loh makes this claim in his report, despite admitting that football at Maryland is losing millions of dollars per year. To this I have two responses:
- Fine, let's suppose that football makes money. Then it will do just fine as an independent business. Get it out of the universities, and let each team pay fees for use of the university's name, the stadium, practice fields, and parking on game days. Then the football club can pay its coaches whatever it wants, and it can pay the athletes, who are disgracefully paid nothing right now. And the university will still have its team, but without the corrupting influence of money.
- So what if football does make money? Since when did universities run an entertainment business? Should they open casinos next?
So get football off our campuses. If athletes want to train for the NFL, let the NFL pay for a minor league, the way baseball does. Universities can have a team if they must, but make it independent, and let's stop the farce of having university presidents try to manage large, commercial sports programs. Let them get back to focusing on research and education, topics on which they actually have some expertise.
As for the athletes: let them play. They can play football if their studies leave them enough time. If they just want the exercise, they can go out for other sports that provide great physical training and far lower risks of injuries. They can try the track team, or maybe the swim team. Oh, wait….
[Note: for those who will criticize me as a football-hating weenie, I'll have to disappoint you. I grew up watching and loving college ball, before it become so commercialized. My father played varsity football all through college, and he taught me the game in our backyard.]


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Not surprising on the MS Surface front. I considered one but after looking at everything it does I was left wanting a Windows 8 laptop. The Surface is just an underpowered netbook imo. Hopefully MS will nail it with rumored 7 inch X tablet next year as I like the smaller form factor across the board. The Surface in portrait mode is a joke and the stand is great but useless except on a table and it should also be adjustable.
Christmas Day customer activity showing Apple is crushing it, Android strong, Microsoft toast.
Christmas Day is a huge day for mobile device activations, obviously. Once we finish unwrapping our gifts and scarfing down a big breakfast, we all become children and want to immediately play with our gifts. For smartphones and tablets, that means activating your device on a network, and downloading a slew of apps. Once we install these apps (like Twitter), we start telling followers about our new device. Two pieces of research hit my radar today. They're both quite fascinating and paint a picture of Apple dominating the scene.
The first is from analytics firm Flurry, who posted a little something on their blog revealing just how big these activations were this year.
Flurry estimates that iOS and Android sales were more than 2.5x larger on Christmas Day in 2012 compared to last year's equivalent. A whopping 17.4 million devices were activated this year versus only 6.8 million last year.
Tablets are also growing in popularity big time. Perhaps because many of them don't come with cellular connectivity (and therefore don't have data plans), they are easier gifts. But 51% of device activations on the 25th (among iOS and Android devices tracked) were tablets. Compare this with 20% tablets for the days leading up to Christmas. I think these data points tell us the tablet market is on fire, and not slowing down anytime soon.
Interestingly, the Flurry study makes no mention of Windows Surface or the heavily discounted BlackBerry Playbook.I'm not surprised on the Playbook side of things - it's now an old tablet, and will be obviously updated in 2013 when BlackBerry 10 comes out. But the Surface is brand new. If it was going to make a move, you'd think Christmas would show some results for team Microsoft, eh?
Another data point, if I can call it that, aggregated tweets from people writing "first tweet from (device name)". The image showing the results (below) comes from Andy Biao and @axian, and it looks like a completely unscientific (but very interesting) graphic detailing the search results.
For whatever these results are worth, iPad crushed everybody else. And to check if these results could be trusted I did an informal search of my own, looking at similar tweets over the last few hours. I got comparable results (just looking at the rough split). Maybe iPad users like Twitter more than everyone else, or people who like Twitter gravitate to iPads, and the fact that almost nobody tweeted from a Microsoft Surface could be driven by the lack of an official Twitter app. But it's not like the web version sucks. It uses HTML5 and works pretty well. I have to think it's just not selling very well.
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I love the Samsung flagship phones. I've had both the S3 and the Galaxy Note(s)...as well as all versions of iPhone. But, when I asked my daughter which phone she liked the best (her not knowing it was going to be a Xmas gift), she said "iPhone". So I traded my G-Note for an iPhone 5 to take advantage of FaceTime. These are the kinds of x-factors that keep giving an otherwise stale iOS the edge.
The Surface was never going to take off with so many selling windows devices along with MS having to play nice with its partners. That's if you get past its limitations of RT. Initially sold at MS stores, that means little. Now it sits in the corner of Best Buy & Staples not pushed by anyone. I tried to use an RT device (next to the nameless android tablets) while at Sams Club recently, it's password locked. The other one didn't even power on. You look over at the ipad display and they're all sitting there powered on, ready to use.
I asked my wife if she wants windows 8 and she said "load it on my laptop and you die" How about the Surface? She didn't even know what that was.
As much as I don't personally care about Metro apps or its UI, you have to look at windows differently. It's about sales for all OEM's combined. It's about windows 8 adoption. It was never going to be a short term killer of anything. Focusing on the Surface is looking at things with Apple goggles on.
Twitter as a measurement of sales? You've got to be joking. Perhaps the demographic using the Surface is a bit different. Also, Surface Pro not yet available, and RT only made it into physical stores in some markets this week.
There is also, of course the theory that the Surface is simply a concept, more intended to inspire Microsoft's standard hardware partners, than be something that sells huge itself.
Microsoft blew it on PRICE on the surface. They made the same mistake every Android vendor made with Android tablets- Priced too high. Not many people are going to pay more ($599) for a Microsoft Surface RT that doesn't even come with the keyboard attachment (an extra $100??). Balmer is nuts. And of course, Microsoft building it's own tablet pissed off their OEM partners enough that they aren't rushing to market with Surface RT tablets of their own. It's only going to get worse when Microsoft releases the Windows 8 Pro Tablets and we see consumers aren't willing to pay $899 for a Tablet. You'd think Microsoft would've learned this lesson the first time they released Tablet's back in 2002. Few bought them then. Meanwhile, the iPad mini is flying off shelves. Who's going to over pay for a Microsoft Surface at $599 when they can get a Kindle Fire HD or better yet, an iPad Mini? Way to go Balmer. Dunno why the board won't can him.
Really? You buy one? You know anyone who's bought one? You seen anyone with one? I've seen many regular iPads and even more iPad mini's. What does that tell you? The Surface isn't selling. Nexus 7. Kindle Fire HD. iPad Mini. IPad. That's what people are buying. Balmer is nuts. It's not working.
+1... RT is DOA and WART is FART... and W8 ???...well..."since Windows Vista there hasn't been an OS so widely derided as 8... it seems first like a fun experience, but that halo wears off quickly. For use on an older computer, it is miserable, you need touch. Unfortunately touch does not work on a vertical surface, there have been decades of studies to show this. Unless you are using a tablet, Windows 8 quickly becomes an exercise in frustration and arm pain. Worse yet, it is simply not workable for doing what most business users need to do, write a letter, make a spreadsheet, and reply to an email. How fun do you think pulling your hand off the keyboard to touch the screen every time you want to click a menu in Word is? Fun edgy UI or carpal tunnel nightmare? Luckily for those realizing this problem, Microsoft got in front of that potential deal breaker and, well, made it so there is no other way. You can't avoid the new UI, and it is unsuitable for corporate work. Somehow people are not just staying away in droves, customers who previously bought Windows desktop and were purportedly waiting to upgrade either decided not to or were actually gone long ago. The whole death spiral of low market share has doomed Windows Phone 7 and 8, made WART and Surface non-starters, and the entire OEM space is hell bent on making viable alternatives to Windows itself. Microsoft is said to have internally written of any chance of corporate adoption for Windows 8 too" - DP- NYTIMES
You actually dont need touch at all to use Windows 8. MS biggest fail on that front is, with releasing such a different UI, not putting more information out there on how to use it. I have actually found some features easier to use on Windows 8 with the mouse/keyboard than touch. Bringing up the running apps list on the left side of the screen for instance. Easy to do by moving the mouse to the top right, and when the 'next app' image appears sliding the mouse down to open the whole list. Real hard to do with touch, though. I have as yet not managed to do it with touch. Search in the store using the Windows key+Q is another place where its easire to not use the touchscreen.
I think most derision for Windows 8 is not a response to actually trying it, but to all the bad press its gotten. I recall a lot of bad press when 95 changed the interface too. People were so used to 3.x windows. Actually using it, it works real well (their store however needs a lot of work to make it easier to use if they expect people to use it).
That brings us back to the $599 w/keyboard, just to gain full functionality. Having a keyboard with iPad is nice but it's also less expensive to do. The surface isn't selling well at all, regardless of what specs you fire off, what it has, or what it doesn't. That is a fact that is unchanged after the holidays.
No I havn't. My friend has bought one, however he is in the IT industry. Its all about your needs and wants. I have an iMac, iPad2, and about to go from WP7 to iPhone. I prefer all my devices in the same ecosystem. However, I appreciate choices and differences in all systems and the Windows system still works very well in the commercial/professional world. Skydrive rules!
I'll grant you that having the surface around will definitely keep everyone on their toes as far as innovation, but I guaranty you that neither Google nor Apple are scared of the RT or the Windows 8 Pro. I'd be surprised if IT Departments sprung for with Windows 8 Pro. Some might. Most won't purely based on cost. Microsoft blew it on price. If they'd made the RT $299 and the Windows Pro Tablet, $499 WITH KEYBOARD, they'd be selling like hotcakes. They're overpriced. Microsoft already learned this lesson once. Balmer blew it, yet again.
I don't see how "tweets" is even a metric. This is slanted, it could just as easily say "More iOS users tweet than Android or Surface users".
It's the same as saying 50 people asked for spoons in that restaurant, they must be balancing them on their noses.
The only metric that's valid for this is activation numbers.
I know 10 people with a Surface, my sister being one of them. I must say its really awesome!! And I agree, she doesn't use twitter so I don't understand why even use that. Not everyone on iOS uses twitter either, so why use it?? I have seen a few strangers with Surface RT as well. I'll admit, price is the reason why I stuck to iPad mini. But other than that, there is nothing stopping me from wanting to get a Surface Pro.
I call bull$hit. No way your "sister" AND ten people you know have a Surface.
Troll elsewhere dude.
Not trolling, I hate them myself. And this is coming from an Apple user. But I can see why I am being called one, being the Internet and all. I told her to get a Surface RT simply because of Microsoft Office (Job requires it) and owning a laptop seemed useless just for MS office. As I mentioned, I picked the iPad mini because price was a major factor and it'll simply be a waste of time and money to invested on an entirely new OS when I am already too used to iOS (had iPads 1-3 before). Anywho, anyone still feels like calling me a troll?? Fine, don't care, it's the Internet for crying out loud. Like some stupid e-label is supposed to make me commit suicide or stop giving my opinion.


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HUNTINGTON -- With two canes and what his wife calls a dose of German stubbornness, Leo Fleckenstein is beating a virus that he refers to as "the little sucker."
The prospect of not being able to walk spurred a drive within Fleckenstein for the exact opposite. The 80-year-old has pushed through years of rehabilitation and therapy with a dual focus set upon enjoying life and helping others.
Faced with idly sitting at home in the early 2000s, the longtime dentist accepted a friend's invitation to visit Ebenezer Medical Outreach, where organizers considered adding a dental clinic.
Fleckenstein instantly spotted numerous obstacles and challenges, but he also caught the broader vision and became the driving force behind Ebenezer's dental clinic. His many hours spent equipping, funding and staffing the facility were the driving force behind The Herald-Dispatch selecting him as its recipient of the 2012 Zack Binkley Award for Community Service.
It represents another honor for Fleckenstein, whose bedroom desk is surrounded with awards recognizing his distinguished career of success and accomplishment.
"If you do anything like this and you want the recognition of it, you're not doing it in good faith," he said recently while unaware of this week's award. "I did it because I like dentistry."
The dental clinic also stands as a symbol of Fleckenstein's compassion, according to Dallas L. Nibert, a Huntington dentist who nominated Fleckenstein for the Binkley award.
"Without him, the Dental Clinic at Ebenezer would be nonexistent, as he is the heart behind it all," Nibert wrote in his nomination letter.
Ebenezer treats the working uninsured from eight Tri-State counties. Now located at the Douglass Centre along 10th Avenue, the medical clinic first opened at another spot in 1986. The dental clinic followed in January 2005 as organizers searched for ways to meet their patients' unfilled needs.
The dental unit has treated hundreds of patients. Many have arrived with poor dental histories, which require extensive, restorative work to their mouths at no cost. Service peaked early on, but has slowed since to an average of 20 patients per month, said Yvonne Jones, executive director of Ebenezer Medical Outreach.
In a recent letter highlighting his contributions, Jones credited Fleckenstein with impacting the lives of hundreds in the region.
"He was worked tirelessly," she wrote. "Without Dr. Fleckenstein, the low-income, uninsured patients of Ebenezer Medical Outreach would not have access to any dental care at all."
Opening such a clinic wasn't Fleckenstein's initial vision for retirement.
The Huntington native, who studied at Xavier and St. Louis universities before serving as a dentist in the U.S. Navy, purchased a local dental practice in the early 1960s. He bought it for $22,000 and had such success that it sold in 2001 for nearly $200,000, less than it might have been worth.
Fleckenstein, then 67, first contemplated selling his practice believing he had reached the age to do so. He and his wife, Betty Lou, had put their five boys through school and then eyed the luxuries of free time and travel.
But within six months, everything came to a halt.
Fleckenstein had fallen ill.
Physicians at The John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore would diagnose him with transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that doctors told Fleckenstein affects three in a million people.
The National Institutes of Health said the disorder often develops following a viral infection. Inflammation develops across both sides of the patient's spinal cord. It can destroy the fatty, insulating substance that covers nerve cell fibers and damages the nervous system, which then interrupts communication between nerves in the spinal cord and the rest of the body.
The disorder attacked the middle part of Fleckenstein's spine and left him partially paralyzed from the waist down. He had hoped to briefly work alongside his successor at his practice, but that opportunity was gone. He closed the deal while lying in a bed at the hospital.
"All I wanted to do was go to exercise and try to get better," he said.
Fleckenstein eventually returned to Huntington, continued rehabilitation and in 2002 accompanied a friend to visit Ebenezer. She had heard of the organization's desire for a dental clinic and invited Fleckenstein to tag along.
Having just relocated to the Douglass Centre, organizers pointed to a room that he immediately knew was too small. That led them to an empty room on the building's third floor. It was just the right size -- but it was an empty room.
With no money and no equipment, Fleckenstein went to work. He secured the donation of some equipment locally, but passed on other hand-me-downs believing that a quality dental clinic deserved quality equipment. That prompted a cross-country effort to bring the necessary equipment to Huntington.
All of that work paid off with the clinic's opening in 2005.
"Because of Dr. Fleckenstein, we got a dental clinic valued at over $100,000 for less than $10,000," Jones wrote. "Literally, hundreds of people have benefited from his tenacity. Dr. Fleckenstein does not take no for an answer. When he sets his mind to something, he does not give up until it is accomplished."
Getting the equipment was only half of the battle.
He also needed dentists.
Nibert's nomination letter credits Fleckenstein with leading a continued recruitment drive to attract other dentists and hygienists. The clinic also became the home mission of the Huntington Dental Society, an organization for which he once served as president.
"He not only donated an abundance of his own time, but also leads and inspires others to give their time as well," Nibert wrote. "Dr. Fleckenstein possesses a special ability to not only lead, but to lead others to greatness."
Fleckenstein's never-ending drive for perfection is another side of his character, noted both his wife and Nibert. It fueled his initial push for quality equipment and today causes him to yearn for better participation among dentists. He particularly focuses upon retired dentists, as well as pushing for Ebenezer's approval as the site for a loan forgiveness program for dental students.
"That's very difficult and discouraging, too," he said of low participation. "The demand is so much bigger than what we're able to take on."
Fleckenstein's wife, Betty Lou, said the dental clinic became his passion in the face of disability. She credited his faith in leading him to recognize God's will in placing him at the clinic. He grew more inspired as more things fell into place, such as a larger room and the necessary equipment.
She said the push for more volunteers symbolizes his passion hasn't died.
"Whether it's dentistry, working in the yard or whatever he did -- he did it top notch," she said. "He does the same thing with these patients as he would have done in his general practice. He wants everything up to par."
It's that determination that continues to drive Fleckenstein to enjoy life to its fullest. He mentioned his balding head, recognizing it keeps him honest about his increasing age. He also acknowledged the days of walking on two canes might eventually come to an end, but he refuses to give up, saying others are fascinated to see him walk and hear that he still drives -- albeit with hand controls.
"I fight like hell to stay out of a wheelchair," he said. "Everybody says, 'Well you'd really be more stable on a walker.' Well you would be, but you're limited in what you can do ... If I get to the point that I can't (walk), there's so many things I won't be able to, and I'm not ready to give them all up right now."
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Through the use of computer based online e-learning study materials, scenario based activities and practical seminars, unit content is organised around key creative arts education theoretical frameworks that include:
- ways of knowing;
- exploring, imagining, and experimenting;
- developing divergent thinking processes to enable children to express ideas about themselves and their worlds;
- engaging children's sensory and aesthetic perception through arts related auditory, visual, tactile and kinaesthetic experiences;
- exploring the concept of multiple intelligences through visual-spatial imagery and kinaesthetic / body activities.
Students will critically appraise current trends in arts education research and practice as well as teacher reference and curriculum documents relevant to creative arts teaching with young children. Participation in practical seminars activities will enable students to engage with their own art practice and aesthetic responding to enhance their understanding of creative and cognitive processes and to apply this knowledge in planning teaching and learning programs that support young children's developing artistry. Students will also explore two and three dimensional media and techniques appropriate for young children as they develop their own artistic knowledge and skills.
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- Through practical experiences in visual art and media art, students devise ways to foster imaginative and creative play through which young children, by exploring, imagining, experimenting and thinking, express ideas about themselves and their worlds. For example, students will develop activities that promote arts concept and language development (e.g. form, texture, balance, colour, shape, light, reflection and symmetry), and encourage the expression of ideas through a variety of media and techniques including, puppet making, digital story telling and narratives, and two dimensional and three dimensional constructions. They will respond to artworks including their own and those of others.
- Students will identify teaching approaches and strategies for supporting learning in relevant educational settings and will observe during professional placements how children develop their creative and aesthetic understandings. They will build on the concept that children's exploration and development of interwoven narratives and visual symbols enable them to express their ideas and feelings and give artistic form to thought, and imagination through play based activities and where relevant more structured arts learning environments.
- They will design and develop a Creative Arts art program that supports the intellectual, social and cultural development of the whole child.
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Task 2: Creative Arts Program, 50%, 2000 words or equivalent
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