Thanks Owen, that's great, and definitely closer to what we're thinking
about.
Would be really interesting to know if anyone used(s) it...
Mike
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Owen Stephens wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> The concept you describe puts me in mind of the ‘Pathways’ that were (are?) supported by the venerable First World War Poetry Archive - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways
>
> I always really liked this idea but I’m not sure how much real world take up it got
>
> Owen
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>> On 26 Nov 2015, at 11:06, Mike Ellis<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all (apologies for cross-posting)
>>
>> We're developing a tool which will allow educators to build what we have been calling "web quests" - basically journeys through the web with a level of curation to help users make that journey.
>>
>> I know the phrase "webquest" is actually A Thing. See http://webquest.org.
>>
>> Now - if you look at the "recently published" webquests list (http://questgarden.com/author/reports/recentpubs.php - the search doesn't appear to work...) you'll see that a webquest seems to be basically "a simple set of web pages" with some kind of authoring system underneath it.
>>
>> This isn't at all what we're developing - the tool we've got sits alongside existing web pages and guides people through these so that users can refer back to the direction the journey is taking at any time.
>>
>> So my questions:
>>
>> 1) Does anyone on the list recognise or use the webquest.org model - is it still a thing? Is it useful?
>>
>> 2) Do you have any examples you can point me to which are more like the thing we're proposing? Or is my description too fluffy for words...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
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