WebQuests... 1.0 or 2.0

Are WebQuests Web1.0 or Web 2.0? This is my question...
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by Hans Feldmeier on July 6, 2007 at 2:55pm

Hi James, I think WebQuests are mostly Web 2.0! I did a lot of WQ with my students in the last three years. Web 2.0 is interactive work: Think about mindmapping as the first step to go on next possibilities to create presentations. We are using Mindmeister within a group and the mind has to be shared... After this students could create an article within an e-journal together - sharing and interactive as well... et cetera.
But I must say, if students create websites or ppt and they do it alone - there is no interactive work.

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Permalink Reply by Julia Osteen on July 6, 2007 at 4:36pm

I think it would depend upon how the WebQuest was put together. If, within the structure of the WebQuest, tools like bubbl.us or del.icio.us were utilized, then I could see an argument for web 2.0. However, most WebQuests I have seen seem to be web 1.0 to this point. This may be yet another area that will be revolutionized as a result of social networking. :)

Just my 2 cents.

Julia

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Permalink Reply by James Folkestad on July 6, 2007 at 7:46pm

Yes, I agree with you both. Great ideas. I like the Mindmeister and del.icio.us idea. I could see working to integrate those to make it interactive and not so linear.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Hricko on July 7, 2007 at 3:33pm

I would say I agree with Julia. It all depends how you develop the webquest assignment.

I have my students create WebQuests using Web 2.0 tools to increase the level of interaction and to find better ways to integrate emerging technologies into an assignment. So for example, the students can integrate a wiki into the webquest for assessment/brainstorming etc.. Students can create hyperlinks to a wide range of files and media clips that they have developed.

Check out the San Diego Webquest project for more ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Britt Watwood on July 20, 2007 at 6:34am

Some good comments here. I teach about WebQuests in my Instructional Strategies course here at VA Commonwealth University. Many teachers seem to want to keep control and provide all the links themselves, which to me makes it 1.0. I think there is real power in empowering students and therefore I use del.icio.us as a modeling approach in my class. Some are gettng the idea and opening up the WebQuest to more student generated approaches...a 2.0 approach.
Britt

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Permalink Reply by Alice Mercer on July 20, 2007 at 9:43am

There will be a session of It's Elementary on Webquests next week (Monday at 4 pm PDT/6 CDT/7 EDT). Call in and discuss this with us! http://itselementary.edublogs.org

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Permalink Reply by Linnell Gribble on April 30, 2009 at 4:22pm

I have created a WebQuest using a htm file and can not link it with PBwiki and get all the links to open. How do you do this?

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Permalink Reply by Geoff St. Pierre on April 30, 2009 at 4:55pm

use full file paths in your a tags: like

<a href="/index.php"> would work on my site, but not on pbwiki.

<a href="http://jasperstreet.homeip.net/index.php"> will work on pbwiki and my site or anywhere html is permissable.

If you post a link to your pbwiki site we can look at the code and perhaps give more insight.

Geoff

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on April 30, 2009 at 4:57pm

The beauty, IMHO, with the Webquest when it was first designed was looking at big/essential questions from different perspectives. Student roles led them to different resources and after researching the topic from their perspective the big group reconvened to do some big project. Tom March is one of the original designers of Webquests (with Bernie Dodge) and an exceptional Webquest author/designer, you can see his Webquests and others here. If you use his Webquests as your model your curriculum wouldn't need Web 1.0 or 2.0!! Here is Tom March's Webquest called Little Rock 9 Integration 0?. Most Webquests aren't worth the bytes they take up---but a good one is a joy to behold!!

Good wequests don't even need a computer!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on April 30, 2009 at 6:19pm

This might be an easier way to see the Webquests Tom March authored.

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Permalink Reply by Geoff St. Pierre on April 30, 2009 at 5:11pm

It is probably a moot point since web 2.0 is not really a technology just a perception:

"Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

http://wikipedia.org

but,
The rule of thumb is that if you are reading AND writing to the web then it is web 2.0 otherwise percieved as web 1.0 if you are not using a computer then I guess that is web 0.0.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has questioned whether one can use the term in any meaningful way, since many of the technological components of Web 2.0 have existed since the early days of the Web.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0