Geography Book Design

If you haven’t read my “Changing Cambodia 2017-2018” post, I highly suggest that you do so to avoid any confusion that you might have and fully understand what is happening in this very post of my learning. The first exploration of this year was a continuation of a project that was created last year, the Cambodian Geography Book. It was the last exploration that would finish the entire project. In this last part of the project, we had two new students join us on finishing the book; we had 10 students. We spent the first few weeks putting all the provinces in Cambodia together and going over the content. Before our last school year ended, we met and came up with an idea that not only would make the book more interesting and exciting for the readers, but also input our students’ voice inside the book. The idea was to turn boring sentences into visuals that would give them as much information as reading it. These plug-ins were called graphics and there were four types of them which were student/explorer’s observation, did you know, watch out, and traditional beliefs. You can already tell what they are by their names. Throughout the 7 weeks, we met with our facilitator every single week, set goals, and talked about how we were doing on the book. We also came up with new ideas to improve and change the graphics due to some small problems. For the last few weeks, we went through all the designs as well as the content one last time, checked for consistency and changed a few things. That was the longest process of making the book and it was really frustrating, but we made through it and I’m proud of everyone in the exploration. The book will be printed somewhere around the end of October or early November before 2018 ends, but despite that, I cannot wait for everyone to pick up and read this book. It was created by 12 year old students from the Liger Leadership Academy for the world to read and know about Cambodia. Honestly, this was a great start to the rest of the year and I really enjoyed it.