Comments on: Webquests Are Alive And Well In Web 2.0 http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2008/09/24/webquests-are-alive-and-well-in-web-20/ thinking about education Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: John Hendron http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2008/09/24/webquests-are-alive-and-well-in-web-20/#comment-753 John Hendron Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:43:22 +0000 http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2008/09/24/webquests-are-alive-and-well-in-web-20/#comment-753 I feel webquests were can answer to a number of concerns in the earlier days of the Internet in schools. So many web 2.0 tools are still blocked in schools, so I don't see a call to update the webquest format just because the tools available online have become richer. But--I do think the basic idea behind a webquest is to build searching strategies and how to apply what you find in a problem-solving strategy. We should continue to capitalize on these strengths in the webquest model. Webquests can improve by taking advantage of the new Web landscape--not so much by the tools themselves -- but by the changing face of the communities online. No longer are authoritative websites the only options for where we drink from. Students should be given the opportunities to post questions in online forums, search blogs, not to mention collaborative spaces as part of their search strategy. I don't look at these so much as web 2.0 as "read/write." And to echo what you found, I think read/write does compliment the model. I feel webquests were can answer to a number of concerns in the earlier days of the Internet in schools. So many web 2.0 tools are still blocked in schools, so I don’t see a call to update the webquest format just because the tools available online have become richer.

But–I do think the basic idea behind a webquest is to build searching strategies and how to apply what you find in a problem-solving strategy. We should continue to capitalize on these strengths in the webquest model.

Webquests can improve by taking advantage of the new Web landscape–not so much by the tools themselves — but by the changing face of the communities online. No longer are authoritative websites the only options for where we drink from. Students should be given the opportunities to post questions in online forums, search blogs, not to mention collaborative spaces as part of their search strategy.

I don’t look at these so much as web 2.0 as “read/write.” And to echo what you found, I think read/write does compliment the model.

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