The learning objectives of this tool are: Discover "interesting and useful information about different nationalities.' and 2. Develop "respect and understanding of cultural difference. In this activity, you have  blank map of Europe with a collection of audio and video clips. Some countries have only audio and some have only video. Then there is a library of videos and audios. The goal is to match and add audio/video to the country that is missing the video/audio, respectively. Before the activity, you can only hear or view the audio or video for each country.  After doing the activity or matching, you can see the video with audio together.  I did find it interesting in linking the audio with video of a particular place and also learn something about the culture of each place. It was interesting to see that while all these economies are developed and we consider them to be "homogeneous" as European, it was interesting to see how some of them have art/dance and some have architecture as their cultural identity. I had to do some trial and error to match the audio/video for some countries, but this helped me to remember it longer. Overall, this is a useful activity, but it could be more effective if the participants are shown a map of Europe with names of different countries and were provided some introduction/reach for some of these countries. The web version of the tool does not work because I think all browsers these days (2022 onwards) have stopped supporting Adobe flash so you have to download the executable and run it to do the activity. The download was little slow and the interface looks old. Again, spending some time before the activity with some reading may generate more interest and make this activity more fun.

I did "Trip around Europe 2" recently with my students in a migration class entitled "Diaspora." I thought there was a lot of use to work through with my students, and they enjoyed the game a lot, but also there were some that pitfalls too that I believe could be addressed. First, this was a group of 15 students all from different majors, all taking this diaspora class for the first time. I think students enjoyed that it was multi-faceted in terms of visual and audio introductions to different cultures. Students enjoyed the competitive element of the game when remembering parts of cultures. Perhaps this is where I have the most substantive grievance in that cultures are presented in some ways as static, monolithic entities, without accounting for different meanings of what "Italian" or "Austrian" mean. There is a little bit of essentializing at play here. Moreover, while the competitive element is fun and exciting at the time, I wonder what is gained and lost with rote memorization of cultures. Will students remember these songs or visuals beyond this class, or will they fade. I enjoyed it a lot, but perhaps the game could be tightened to account for culture nuance and difference, or indeed, to move beyond national boundaries when explaining cultures.