Today's happy news is all about the library selecting and acquiring an online encyclopedia by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and getting a subscription to the Philippine Studies. By providing access to the source to faculty so that they can share the resource to their students, the Visual Arts teacher created a mini-webquest for his students.
A webquest is an activity that teachers and librarians can use to instruct and facilitate the learning of research skills, specifically the use of online sources, unpacking a question to its basic idea/s and identifying keywords to use when searching for sources online. It is also a kind of assessment to gauge the students' understanding of concepts. This activity can be done asynchronously. The teacher can further use students' discoveries from the webquest as an entry pass to the next online session or a point of discussion connecting it to a new concept. The entire exercise becomes an experience of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Teachers and librarians can work together to design a webquest. This way, the learning objectives are deliberately met and the assessment of skills are identified right after. Feedback is essential which can be done asynchronously as well. If you are subscribed to World Book Online, you will find out that there are ready made webquests in the Educators' Page. More on this in future posts!
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