If I'm to be completely honest I'm still not sold on the educational value of the webquest for my discipline. They strike me as more enrichment activities, technological rewards to be offered up when the class work is done. If I can teach my lesson in 3 steps and 2 days why stretch it out to 5 or 6 steps and as many days so that it's got more tech in it?! If technology is just another tool in the teacher's toolbox then it shouldn't be any more important or used more often than any other tool? I've seen several Web 2.0 apps I like and will use in my future classroom (or some better derivation available at that time). I'm not sure that I would use a webquest unless forced or came up with a far better one than I've seen for English yet.
I think that as multi-disciplinary collaborative project between teachers/ subjects it has more value. I think that our webquest shows how such far reaching subjects as writing, gym and art can be combined in a way to highlight the strengths of each & provide a educational and creative experience for the students. In these project situations we can use the webquest to achieve a combined goal that would otherwise be difficult when mixing different disciplines. There is educational value in that.
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