THE LAST TASK: WEBQUEST

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well. Because I am! In this post, I am going to talk about the last task of the Material Design class whose name is WebQuest. We created this with Emre Yunus, and Aslı using the preparatory class coursebook that we used in the previous tasks. In a nutshell, WebQuest is a lesson platform that allows professors to provide online assignments and projects to their students. WebQuest differs from previous methods in that it provides thorough and adequate instructions and information while also incorporating technology.

We selected the project shown below as a screenshot from the coursebook for the task, and we added technology into it. Click here to see how we made it a technology-enhanced WebQuest.

Let’s talk about how we integrated it into technology-enhanced. I started blogging when I took the Educational Technologies course. We took advantage of some activities we learnt in Educational Technologies, integrating them into the Material Design course, as well. In WebQuest, we firstly created a “Creating Poster” activity about a movie the students will choose and we used an infographic to show how to create a poster on PosterMyWall on the WebQuest. After that, we wanted them to write a review about the movie on the Wiki Page on PBworks and we recorded a video showing how to use PBworks. Besides, we gave them 2 sample posters and we showed how students should write their review and provided a sample review on the video.

In the end, except for the website we used, QuestGarden, which was a little bit confusing, nothing was challenging as we are already familiar with what we gave as tasks.