Thanks all - really interesting examples and links - and also lots of
enthusiasm, which is always nice :-)
I'll try and get some kind of prototype visible on the web soon at which
point hopefully things will make a bit more sense..
ttfn
Mike
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jon pratty wrote:
> Mike
>
> I always thought Webquests were interesting because they had the potential
> to get authors, curatorial staff or 'content creators' thinking about how
> their collections connected to other collections in the context of the
> national curriculum. For me, that's one of the most important opportunities
> digital curation brings to museums (and archives) and audiences, and yet
> many online collections still don't appear to gear outwards to other
> objects and themes, they're still all about looking inwards.
>
> The ambitions of the National Museums Online Learning Project were on the
> right lines; it'd be cool to see what your toolset or platform can deliver
> using today's tech.
>
> JP
>
> Jon Pratty, FRSA
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Paul Trafford<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Mike and Owen,
>>
>> The path creation scheme at Oxford has a long history.
>>
>> The idea of a pathway arose from an earlier project to study World War One
>> poetry conducted by the former Humanities Computing Services in the former
>> Oxford University Computing Services, which shows how old it is! (OUCS
>> merged with two other departments to form IT Services.)
>>
>> It was conceived, I think, by Dr Stuart Lee and the technical development
>> was led by Paul Groves, with programming carried out mainly by Chris
>> Stephens. There is an early reference to this:
>>
>> http://www.ahds.ac.uk/__text__/history/creating/case-studies/wilfred/index.htm
>>
>> There followed the Pacific Pathways project at Pitt Rivers Museum,
>> Oxford. Brief overview at:
>> http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/museumresearchprevious.html
>>
>> It's no longer available, but project details and some pathways have been
>> partially archived at:
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20060206094819/http://projects.prm.ox.ac.uk/forster/pathways.html
>>
>> Pathways were later included in the First World War Poetry Digital
>> Archive, a project managed by Kate Lindsay of the RunCoCo team
>> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways
>>
>> Evaluation may be found in reports from 2008 and 2010. See
>> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/about/documentation
>>
>> I suggest getting in touch with Kate or other members of the RunCoCo team,
>> who should be able to tell you about the evaluation.
>> http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/about/team.html
>>
>> I too like this kind of approach, particularly how different levels of
>> involvement may be supported.
>>
>> Hope this gives some helpful background.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> Paul Trafford
>> Web Officer
>> Museum of the History of Science
>> Broad Street
>> Oxford OX1 3AZ
>> [log in to unmask]
>> http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Mike Ellis
>> [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 26 November 2015 12:08
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Webquests
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> _____________________________
>>
>>
>> *Mike Ellis *
>>
>> Thirty8 Digital: a small but perfectly formed digital
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>>
>> * My book: http://heritageweb.co.uk<http://heritageweb.co.uk/> *
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>
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