Week 10 - Webquests for E-learning

Today's lecture came in a nick of time as our group was just about to start executing the design for our webquest assignment. Prior to today's lectures, we met up to discuss about the various components to be included for the webquest. Excited about how this webquest was going to unfold, we failed to take into consideration the importance of including the essential elements for a clearly defined learning design.

After consultation with our lecturer, we had to organize our thoughts to ensure a clear procedural approach that consists of the foloowing elements:

1. An introduction

2. Task/ tasks

3. Process

4. Evaluation

5. Conclusion

6. Teacher's Page

We will be covering on the vanishing trades in Singapore, and this goes in line with MOE's learning objectives of the social studies cirricular - creating awareness of the heritage of Singapore among primary school students.

One of the biggest problems we face is the short attention span of our target audience. In addition, we have to face this problem whilst at the same time, fulfil the requirements of adhering to the various aforementioned components that are relatively structured.

In order to acheive this, we realised the resources used for scaffolding was of utmost importance to acheive our goals and objectives. These resources will then be used to develop interactive mini activities to ensure the involvement of our target audiences at various stages. 

Some of the information resources we will be employing includes newspaper articles, online forum threads, and various self-made videos to arrest the attention of our target audience (Primary 4 students).

We will be starting on our video shoot tomorrow and if all goes smoothly, we will be working on our webquest this weekend. More updates will be posted!