Webquest

= Solving 50 Years of Conflict = []

= Description = I found the webquest to be the most challenging assignment in this class. I had never participated in on in the classroom, had never used them in the classroom, and certainly had never created one. I really didn't know where to start. I looked at various webquests to get ideas and then started to formulate my plan. The online discussion really helped me focus my project and from there it was a matter of gathering resources for the project. The actual production of the webquest was easy thanks to Zunal, the hard part was finding appropriate resources. I was lucky enough to find newspaper accounts from Pakistan and India to show differing views of the Mumbai attacks.

= Reflection = Having created a webquest once I'm not sure that I would do it again. I find them too narrow in focus and not of my liking. That might be because I've never done one and are not familiar with the benefits of webquests. I enjoyed making the webquest because I like finding the resources and have done things similar in the past where I have students search a number of links and reach a conclusion. This, however, seems more limiting because the focus of the assignment. I guess I could have made the webquest more broad and given the students more leeway in deciding the task however. I may look into using webquest's again but I doubt that I will use them more than once and awhile. I prefer to use my Moodle site for interactive assignments.