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Well.. Let me throw the first stone.

Personally, I like tabbed interfaces.. They are intuitive, easy to follow and well organized.

Forget the colors.. They are there only to show well the nested tabbed table.

Perhaps this design could be extrapolated to the user view also.

Regards,
Will

hi All,

I appreciate your enthusiasm. Seems like you've got a great community here.

One thing I would caution you on is that I think a page like this:

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/

Is not so helpful. I would direct your attention to an earlier link Martin posted about the WebQuest design process. Like most processes (e.g., the writing process), the WQ design process is not linear and presenting it to to teachers in this way usually gets them off on the wrong foot. I like the tabs and that will help, but at least review this page and those linked to it:

http://ozline.com/webquests/design.html

WQs are a scaffolded process that help teachers move further into constructivist, student-centred learning. When we simply leave blank text areas like the linked example above, then teachers tend to carry their old, teacher-centred practices with them.

I'm not sure you all want to hear this, but the major trend right now is to support development of "real" WebQuests. Less than 25% of those listed on the WebQuest portal are true WebQuests (Bernie openly admits to me in private). So just going with 8 year old headings (Intro, Task, Process, Conclusion - evaluation) isn't a new contribution to the field. A lot of people will like it and use it, but it won't advance what students do in the classroom.

I don't know. See what you think.

All the best,

Tom --

Let's push this thread a bit...

I've been reviewing several WQs and I've found that many of them have the resources categorized by roles... This should be a rule or there should be no distinction at all?

 

I like the WebQuest concept and here is my idea of what it could look like!  Hope this gets this discussion going again.

http://www.remote-learner.net/images/webquest.htm

Would like to see something more graphical, such as a concept map, in which each of the points could serve as a graphical link. As I recollect my HTML, all this can be done in HTML.

Familiar points on such a graphical interface, such as a concept map, tend to become familiar and as such, easier to learn, if main points are common to all webquests, much as pull down menu elements tend to become familiar from web page to web page.

What do you think about using a concept map as an interface?

First of all, I saw an indroduction of Webquest about two years ago and I really liked the idea behind it. When I started my laptop-class at school I thought of Webquests, too. I think a one to one realisation of the normal Webquests won't show all possibilities moodle can offer.
At the moment I use different parts of moodle and other cms-modules to do my kind of Webquest, although I do not know, wether this still can be called a Webquest in the usual way.

I think especially in the parts process, evaluation and resources moodle could offer perfect tools besides the normal textareas.
I expand process to the students. The groups have a blog where they write in their workprocess, can show parts of their group plans or meantime results. The Advantage: everyone else from the class can comment. Since I do this, the quality of work increased and students can help each other. My wish for a rather free webquest wuld be a kind of blog and for a more guided Webquest would be a kind of process table. Each time showing the step to do at first, then a kind of blog area, where the students can show their process, then the next step in process and another blog field.
What I cannot do at the moment because of the lack of knowledge in writing such things: A special evaluation tool when the students load up their work. I would like to see a kind of table with my guidelines I expected in the first column, in the next column at first the members of the group itself evaluate their work, then in the next column the rest of the class and at last I put in my comments/results.
In the part resources and introduction it should be possible to show all things moodle can do at the moment, eg streaming videos, mathematic notation and so on.

Sorry for my really bad English. At the moment I'm speaking Italian (ok, at least I try ). It is hard enough for me to write English when I'm home in Bavaria, but when speaking another foreign language during the day, it is really bad. Nevertheless I hope you can understand what I'm thinking of.

Greetings
Susanne

Hello. I write you from Peru. I am student of education Primary. This Year i will finish.

Sorry, but i don´t speak English very well yet.

I was looking for new modules so found this forum.

I am making a denominated investigation "Effectiveness of moodle in the construction of learnings in the area Science and atmosphere" (ciencia y ambiente) so it will work under strategy WEBQUEST.

I was thinking about using the forum, resources, and tasks for it, is to say one combinacion of the previous ones.

But as already I said it previously, found this forum, and would like to contribute to with ideas. The Link connection is an idea of possible interfas to use. Although i wrote it in Spanish.

Another day will explain the reasons for which I did it, is to say details. now I must go to house, my parents traveled and leaves the house single. Ciao.

http://espanol.geocities.com/hyapurasi/webquest/index.htm

If there was a way one could create an embeded tool within moodle which could allow students to present visualizaly and dynamically how complex systems and ideas really work... it could take the concept of telecolaborate "webquests" to a whole new level... if one could create a "webquest" which asked students to create things like dynamic behavior over time graphs, or to find pattern plot developments or history... and then have them evaluate choices today based on the models... letting them try different outcomes... or test out science experiment results... with moodle providing the forum for students to discuss and experiment... as well as an embeded systems thinking tool which enabled dynamic modeling... a concept mapping simulation of sorts... well, I don't know... it would be great.  As I write this, I realize that it may already be possible and I am just unaware... I am very new to moodle.  Several years ago in graduate education class I was introduced to Stella... I was amazed.  But, I haven't been able to incorporate a tool like that into my practice.  (One step at time.)

i'v an idea. imagine the webquest almost like a course(using tabbed design). format topics are Introduction(in course summary), Tasks, we may insert in this topic activities like: worshops, assignments, lessons and others simples evaluatives activities, Resources topic, well here we may insert web pages, text pages, links to file or web page and labels. in the Process topic well, labels.. and finally the final topic: if the user is a teacher, admin or course creator here the module displays a report with the students's conclusions and will evaluate then just like the workshop do but only wiht one element, and the final student's grade is the sum of the activitie's_grades+conclusion'sgrade. WQ'll displays an edit on/off button.
Now if the user is an student, in the conclusion topic will appear a html edit and a section to upload a file and a send button to post the student's conclusion.
In the left section will appear th configuration options, scales, activities grades, and others...

Sorry for me english.
Regards Dariem Garces Urquiza (Holguin, Cuba).
darien.garces@facinf.uho.edu.cu