WebQuest Day 2

Welcome Back to Day 2!

Today we have three main objectives:

1. Get a clear experience / understanding of the Group Transformation phases from the Day 1 WebQuest.
2. Draft a WebQuest on a topic of your own choosing.
3. Make sure you have the platform & digital resources to develop the draft WebQuest.

Activity 1 – Revisiting the Group Process

To make sure you have a successful experience from the inside of a group transformation process, I’ve revised the task into this handout: School 3.0 WebQuest Group Task.  Let’s do this as a warm-up and then debrief.

Extra Inspiration for current models?

• Chris Jordan’s Starry Night
• The Internet
• Color Names
• The United States of Fiber
• Interactions
• Binary Keyhole
• The Web
• Food Pyramid’s multi-dimensionality

Your Versions

• (Day 1)
• Beehive
• Shopping mall
• Sea of Learning

Sampler of Group Process Tasks Tom’s Used

• Searching for China
• The Tuskegee Tragedy
• The Big Wide World
• Crool Zone
• Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? (doc)

Activity 2 – Drafting Your WebQuest

Use the handout from Day 1: Designing a WebQuest.  Focusing on page 2, brainstorm the big pieces of the WebQuest you could develop. At this stage you want to see the overall construct because once you start developing it, it’s easy to get stuck into a “timesuck” or bogged into details and surfing.  Let’s keep our heads-up and think “Big Picture” or you will realise the truth behind every WebQuest (it can expand to include the universe of thinking and topics).

Topics and Questions – EtherPad Brainstorming?

Activity 3:
Building / Enriching Your Smart Online Space

• Get a WordPress Blog?
• Change the theme
• Make a Post
• Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)
• Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
• Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)
• A practice post with embeds

WordPress Support

• Learn WordPress — Tutorials and Walkthroughs
• Siderbar widgets
• Various How-to Videos from WordPress

Activity 3:
Developing Your WebQuest

Gather Resources & Perspectives

• Quick TagGalaxy search?
• Consider Diigo Groups?
• Create a RSS Feeds page (sample) for the topic (Add Netvibes tutorial)
• Search for RSS Feeds
• YouTube
• Google Country Codes for Searches by Nation
• iTunes Podcasts (embed a Podcast)
• Browse TED A-Z (Themes) and Tags

Thinking Tools

• Thesis Builder – to generate thesis statements and essay outlines
• + similar tools for Analysis, Cause & Effect, Comparison / Contrast
• Intel’s Thinking Tools (sample Ranking Tool)
• Designing an Infographic
• Exploratree
• Mind42, MindMeister

“Homework”

Develop your WebQuest to share a solid draft on October 13.