Creating A Webquest

“Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

 Hello everyone,

    This will be my last post in which I will be talking about a task. I may continue this blog if I do other things about educational technologies and material design... I dunno we'll see. So, this week I will be talking about our Webquest. As always, Cansu and I worked on this enhanced project. I say enhanced because our task was to pick an existing project from the coursebook given to us and enhance it to be used with technology. I won't lie we may have gone easy with this one, we picked a project in which you already have to use some technology - making a vlog about your family. So we added an extra task, creating a family tree. We also asked the students to upload the video on Youtube.

    We used QuestGarden to show the introduction, instructions, the process and the evaluation table. I don't want to talk about it much but the website is... verbesserungsfähig. We had some problems while trying to save and add pictures, which was really annoying since the website only accepts 500x500 images that are less than 140kb. Despite these technical issues we managed to complete the task; I mean at this point, having dealt with so many technical issues in the previous tasks, I believe we can even bypass a firewall or something. Anyway, we also used videos to explain the processes as a visual task such as this can only be best explained with visual instructions, we also added some tips for the pre-recording, mid-recording and post-recording phases of the vlog.

    And that's it. Wow, another semester, gone, never to be lived again. I gotta say this pandemic sure wasn't great but at least we got to live through and experience something that most people that have lived never experienced. It also showed how disastrously unprepared humans were for a global emergency, but hey I'm getting ahead of myself. I wish nothing but the best for all of you.

Edit: It wouldn't be right if I didn't forget to give the link to the task.

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