Week 10 - Webquest

Mr Low made use of this lecture to go through doubts on our webquests, as well as to give us more information and examples of webquest designs. It was brought to my attention during this lecture that a simple looking webquest can be so full of information.

As much as how the overall outlook of the webquest is rather important to keep a person captivated, the most important aspect of the webquest has still got to be how well the information is structured and organised into tasks, process, etc.

A WebQuest is a learning activity used by educators. The first part of a WebQuest is the introduction. This describes the WebQuest and gives the purpose of the activity. Next describes what students will do. Then is a list of what to do and how to do it. There are usually a list of links to follow to complete the activity.

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On to describe my feelings about webquests (that i also highlighted during tutorial classes)..

Webquests, as wonderful as it may sound, and as widely used in US as it possibly is, still has several shortcomings in my opinion.

From the most fundamental point of view, what i would like to say and what i have observed is that webquests are not widely used in Singapore. The planning and designing of lessons is common in the teaching profession, but insufficient educators in Singapore are trained to actually properly design an e-learning design/webquest.

As such, i just have to bring in some marketing knowledge into the prospects of the webquest.
Using a BCG portfolio analysis,
i actually believ that if this continues, webquests will end up becoming from a 'question mark' to a 'dog'. Unless more money and effort is made into educating educators about the wonders of e-learning and the webquest projects, the fall of webquests, in my opinoin, is very possible.

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Back to serious business,
OUR WEBQUEST PROJECT!

i'm proud to say that my group's almost done. Eric has put in a lot of effort collating all the information together and putting it into the webquests, while i've contributed by providing whatever knowledge i have on singing for them.

I'm actually quite excited about it.
Cause if this 'how to sing' webquest works out, i may be able to test them on my current choir students and see if they manage to derive anything from our webquest.

An end note.
Yes, anyone can create a webquest because its simple. But to create a good and informative webquest that meets its objectives, require careful, and strategic planning...