"Think, Construct & Communicate" Comenius 2.1 project

Project Outcomes

1. WebQuest online courses
2. Best practices guide
3. WebQuest activities Matrix
4. Assesment tools
5. Analysis of Project Results
6. CD-ROM Edition

1. WEBQUEST ON-LINE COURSES

Initial Edition: "About WebQuests" This is a course version designed to be run into the frame of a BSCW platform. Two on-line course runs (1st and 2nd editions) have been done in each institution, during 2003 and 2004, using these materials.		Final Edition: "Teaching and Learning with WebQuest" This is a platform-independent version, designed to be run into the frame of any e-learning platform based on the Web, in order to increase the course versatility. A new on-line course run (3rd edition) has been done during 2005 using these materials.
Student Guidelines Agenda Activities:    - Activity 01    - Activity 02    - Activity 03    - Activity 04    - Activity 05    - Activity 06    - Activity 07    - Activity 08    - Activity 09    - Activity 10    - Activity 11 Annexes:    - What BSCW looks like    - WebQuest Template    - Taskonomy - Shorter Version Tutor Guidelines		Access to these materiales

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2. Guidelines of best practices in WebQuest projects creation

You can access a guide here with the following contents:
 

1. Why is worth creating a WebQuest project?

1.1   WebQuest as means to apply ICT and effectively use Internet in education
1.2  The added value provided through WebQuest teaching and learning

2. What does it mean a good WebQuest?

2.1  Fine points and useful links for the main parts of a WebQuest

2.2  Issues in the creation of a WebQuest

3. Then what?

3.1  Lessons learned form the classroom implementation of WebQuest projects

4. Ten rules for a Quality WebQuest

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3. WEBQUEST ACTIVITIES DESIGNED DURING THE ON-LINE COURSES

(Partial WebQuest matrices: after the 1st & 2nd online course editions)

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4. ASSESMENT TOOLS

The following documents have been used to evaluate the different aspects of the project:

1. Online course - initial evaluation (doc, 66KB)

2. Online course - final edition (doc, 77 KB)

3. Comenius 2.2C course evaluation:

   • Participants (doc, 53 KB)

   • Tutors (doc, 33 KB)

4. Coordinating meetings evaluation (doc, 48 KB)

5. Global Project Evaluation (doc, 107 KB)

The followign .zip file contains the software and databases developed to process and extract relevant statistic information about BSCW usage from the BSCW log files (see readme.txt):

• bscw_log_processing.zip (374 KB)

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5. ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT RESULTS

The following documents gather the main conclusions about the project outcomes:

     Papers presented at m-ICTE2005
(3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Information & Communication Technologies in Education, Cáceres, Spain, Jun 2005)

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6. CD-ROM EDITION

As a final result of the project, a CD-ROM (ISBN: 84-689-6706-8), that has not any commercial aim and is distributed free among Schools, Educational Authorities, Teacher Training Centres, University Departments and Socrates National Agencies, has been edited with the following

Contents

* In English language:
 

1. Introduction to the Project aims and activities

2. Course WebQuest: on-line course materials produced by the Project

   • Initial Edition: "About WebQuests" (first edition corrected and extended)
     Designed by Santiago Blanco, J. Ignacio Rodríguez and Víctor R. González
     This is a course version designed to be run into the frame of a BSCW platform. Two on-line course runs (1st and 2nd editions) have been done in each institution, during 2003 and 2004, using these materials.

   • Final Edition: "Teaching and Learning with WebQuest"
     Designed by Víctor R. González, Ignacio Martín, L. Javier Sánchez and Martín del Cerro
     This is a platform-independent version, designed to be run into the frame of any e-learning platform based on the Web, in order to increase the course versatility. A new on-line course run (3rd edition) has been done during 2005 using these materials.

3. Guidelines for best practices in development of WebQuest projects
             Designed by Adina Glava

4. Getting Further: actions carried out to spread the Project ideas and outcomes

5. Bibliography

6. Evaluation of the project results.
   Two main points have been assessed: BSCW use and WebQuest impact. The conclusions have been presented by means of two papers into the frame of the Third International Conference on Multimedia & ICTs in Education, Caceres, Spain (June 2005).

   • "BSCW as a support system for distance teacher training"
     by Víctor R. González, Alicia García de la Santa, Gabriel Gorghiu and Laura M. Gorghiu

   • "WebQuest in the Classroom - Analysis of its Impact"
     by Gabriel Gorghiu, Laura Gorghiu, Víctor R. González and Alicia García de la Santa

* In different languages:
 

1. Introduction

2. Course WebQuest

3. Evaluation

4. Matrix with WebQuests created by teachers and student teachers in the different national on-line courses
    

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