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

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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
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>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> 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
>
>
>
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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
> > 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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