Ever since I began this course – Digital Media in the Classroom – offered by Wilkes University and Discovery Education – I have been surfing the Internet, following links provided by my professor and going off on a link that is linked to a link that is linked to a link… Wow, sometimes it can make you dizzy. What I have discovered is that there are an uncountable number of sites and applications that can be used to foster the creative minds of our students.
One application that I found particularly attractive is “Quandary” by Half-Baked Software Inc. The site is: http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php It is explained as follows: Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze". Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires. There are several clickable examples offered on the site and from these examples you can see the wide variety of mazes that have already been created. Students could really have fun creating their own mazes for their peers.
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Interesting. I never heard of that one before. As for keeping all these sites connected, have you tried http://delicious.com?
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