Hello. About 10 years ago I developed a couple of Webquests for the (then)
Canadian Museum of Civilisation (now Canadian Museum of History), one on
the history of mail-order catalogues and one on the history of Medicare in
Canada. I had discovered this format while doing research into innovative
approaches to using the internet in education. What I liked about this
format is that it is based on the use of web-based resources, including
primary historical resources, and that it fosters the development of higher
level thinking as both teachers and students are guided through the
discovery of a particular topic.
You can see one of the webquests I developed here:
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/catalog/cat5100e.shtml
I recently learned that the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
project also used the webquest model for their excellent units that guide
students through the discovery of web content. They don't call them
webquests but in speaking with the project developers that is what they
used for inspiration. http://canadianmysteries.ca/en/index.php
Tamara
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From: Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 26/11/2015 07:12 AM
Subject: Re: [MCG] Webquests
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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
>
> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
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>> On 26 Nov 2015, at 11:06, Mike Ellis<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> 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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