The quest was planned for a particular hf fællesfag class (an unusually good one, admittedly).  It was to be an introduction to a selection of WWI literature - mainly poems and songs.  We were going to work with the German teacher, naturally enough.  (The publishing firm Mackay and Hertz has a sister firm - Hertz and Mackay - in Germany.)  I don't know at present whether it can be fitted into the curriculum.  The time is set for 3 (or 4) blocks of 2 x 50 minutes.

The obvious medium, it seemed, for publishing the students' work was the web - the web is hot, it trains the students in finding and emphasizing the important information - and web pages are not technically difficult.  I have changed my mind as regards technical difficulties.  Web editoring is not technically difficult, true; nevertheless it took a considerable time to convert the text of this site (from Word) into what I felt was a useful and user-friendly web-site.  The use of Front Page - even in practised hands - would presumably lengthen the process by a couple of lessons without further benefits other than practice in Front Page.  I still subscribe to the idea of screen bites, however, but this is achieved more quickly in Power Point or Word. 

Making the Quest was triggered by a short course in Web Quests.  Perceptive or sceptical readers (and surely all teachers are at least one of these things) will have seen that the project does not really break new ground.  Its main attraction is the roles the students assume - but this has been seen before.  The literature has been selected by me as usual, but made available on the web instead of on paper; as is the product.  My point is that the project can readily be converted to a "paper" project; and paper products could be as easily transformed into web products.  Why?  If for no other reason, the projects can be more easily accessed (and assessed) by other teachers.

Feel free to use the project.  Comments are welcome - the address: aawb@aarhusakademi.dk .  

Note that some of the images are copyright.

Dick Webb  January 2004