The+Affiliator+(February+21,+2010)

=To you, the best learning activities are those in which students learn to work together. WebQuests that force collaboration and create a need for discussion and consensus are the best in your view. If a WebQuest could be done by a student working alone, it leaves you cold. =

The John Wilkes Booth Page requires students to divide work and share with one another, the product of their individual research. Furthermore, the varied fields of knowledge are quite different in nature, ranging from geography to psychological sketches. As such it is a great colloborative tool as students interaction provides not just vaired information but also varies perspecitves.

The Landfill project's casting of the class as a commissioner's court is a great similuation of real life interacion and cooperative discussion in order to arrive at a plan of action. Furthermore, the site's usage of a decision grid is a helpful way for students to organize and compare what they considred to be salient information.

Ancient Egypt Webquest- Another webquest using a real life task and group work. The specific instruction for students to become experts in a given area of Ancient Egyptian culture is an important dimension of creating the sensibility of the interaction of perspectives. The additional element of creating a power-point presentation is another great aspect of allowing students to interact and work cooperatively on the creative level as well as the content level.

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