A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet." Five steps are used to make a great WebQuest site: Focus, Orchestrate, Challenge, Use the medium, Scaffold high expectations.
Critical attributes of a successful cooperative learning environment for positive independence are promotion of interaction, individual and group accountability, interpersonal and small group skills, and group processing. Samples of great WebQuest pages include titles of "Task, Background, Process, Resources, and Conclusion. This is defined in terms very close to a project managed with project management techniques: "Introduction, Background, Objective, Statement of Work, Organization, Risk Management, Conflict Resolution, Schedule, Budget, Project Termination, and Conclusion (a reflection of how to do the project better next time." Perhaps Bernie Dodge and others teaching about WebQuest will eventually add some of the other sections of effective project management. Project management skills will be used for the rest of these students lives in their home, workplace, and sports and hobby aspirations.
As far as the Filamentality lesson this week, I thought it very useful for the classroom. When reading about WebQuest, I noticed quite a similarity between the two tools used for students to do their classroom projects.
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I feel like filamentality would be a great tool for the classroom as well. Since it is so specific and can be easily explained and created it almost would be an excelent tool to have for substitutes to watch over. I also found webquest and filamentality to be identical.
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