Teacher's Page

This Site & Author

This webquest is a result of the didactics seminar "Collaborative Working on the web" held by Reinhard Donath at the University of Oldenburg. I am a student of history and English at the aforementioned university and studied for nine months at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Thus, the creation of this webquest was self-evident in many ways as I lived in Ireland for nine month and developed an interest in the country and its culture.

Educational Purpose

As a matter of fact this webquest is far from being perfect in terms of providing an evaluated and certified method in teaching students how to collaboratively work on the web and how to solve a webquest by making use of the internet as a knowledge tool. It is, simply put, a rough guide line of how a webquest dealing with Ireland might look like.

Learners

For several reasons this webquest should be solved and worked on by learners of the 12^th or 13^th degree, Sekundarstufe II, Gymnasium. Firstly, the resources page links to various websites that contain rather scientific articles and difficult vocabulary. Nevertheless you might modify the resources page and some of the introductory texts in order to suit this webquest to other types of learners.

Further Notes

This webquest does not include an evaluation or any other method to evaluate or mark the students' works. Thus it is up to the people who actually make use of this webquest to add an evaluation. If you have any questions regarding this webquest please feel free to send me an email.