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Isla San Lucas, Costa Rica

Description

[San Lucas Island National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Isla San Lucas) is an island located off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica in the Gulf of Nicoya. It is part of the Puntarenas district of Puntarenas Canton of the province of Puntarenas.Formerly housing a brutal prison, now abandoned, the island was designated as a National Park on August 2020 by decree 9892 and managed under the Central Pacific Conservation Area.]

What Works Well

This video takes the viewer on a peaceful tour of the former prison-island, San Lucas, which has since been declared a national park and environmental preserve.

Discipline

  • Recreational Services
  • Social Sciences

Keywords

cultural awareness, environment, incarceration, informal learning, island, prison, national park, tour

Source

Stanley Fernandez

Level of Guidance

Guidance Level 1
What does this mean?

The Level of Guidance indicates how much the creator has imbued the video with a sense of at what the viewer should be looking.

For instance, a Level 1 video would mean that the camera has been left in place while life happens around it, allowing you, as the viewer, to simply observe. A Level 2 video might incorporate subtle visual, textual or audible hints or simple transitions. A Level 3 video would rely on a handful of hints and transition. A Level 4 video would employ multiple hints and dialogue. And a Level 5 video would rely on all of the above as well as a narrative arc that pushes the viewer forward.

Another way of looking at this would be how much production went into the video if you are considering making one of your own like it.

Location

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