My brother and I had a lot of fun working in Student Congress with Bron.

I am part of a Distance Education School but I do have many Quester friends who go to school.

When we made our mission in Student Congress I learned a lot about eating healthy. We also had to learn how to work together on a project.

The advice I would give to teachers thinking about Quest Atlantis is that they should try it because it is a great learning tool. Also, if the teachers get stuck then ask other students(questers) for help…we are always willing to help each other out. 🙂

Thanks for watching the video.

tmcrae71

Working in Student Congress on the Healthy Communities project was very fun but also taught me a lot about eating healthy and exercising. We also learned how to work as a team.

Yes, we are homeschooled but we know quite a few Questers who go to school who enjoy Quest Atlantis just as much. It is great!

smcrae71

If there was a moment when I realized this was different from other projects, could I say right from the start? Creating the world/unit for others to come through and learn with is vastly different from a project where you are told information instead of “creating” the information. Of course we did find most of our sources online, so we didn’t really “create” the information, but we did re-create it in a total different way of looking at it.

If there was any advice I would give to teachers, it would be to allow access to a area in Quest Atlantis called “Q-Ville”. Q-Ville is basically a training ground for building, so when an opportunity comes up to do a real project with or without school credit (hopefully with), building the actual world is easy for them.

Thanks for asking,
David (dabram71 in world)

The kids who were part of this first congress worked remotely with me on this an extra project. It was a proof of concept as it were. Some were part of a distance education school and some were in regular school districts but they and there teachers met with me over skype to get things going and they worked further within their school and home time.

QA is suited to kids aged 9-15 and we offer curriculum content for that range. That is the core of QA, then as extension places to build and design are offered as part of missions or as kids level up in the game. QA is used in mainstream classes, reading programs, extension, special ed, clubs after school programs – LOADS of places. So not suited to just any one perspective – it depends how the teacher integrates it.

I know some of you talk about this in the presentation, but could you explain more about what you learned by being part of the project?

If you had to pinpoint a moment when you realized this project is different from anything else you had done, what would that moment be?

What advice would you give teachers thinking about Quest Atlantis so that the experience would be enriching for students? (other than, do it.)

Thanks!
Mr. Hodgson

I wondered a bit about how this works in the classroom — are there periods of Quest or is it embedded into the entire curriculum?
I wonder if your students have found times when the site has been limiting, and how did they push through those limitations?
I also wonder about the ways the site and missions can reach students of all learning levels? (in other words, are most of the students on there for extension activities? Or are there a fair number of students with learning difficulties, as well? I realize this is a sensitive issue so address it as you see fit.)
I have a sense, but I may be wrong, that many of the students are home-schooled students and this site is a great way to integrate community and technology and agency for those who are not in a traditional school setting. But do you have links to classrooms that use the site on a regular basis? That would be helpful.
Finally, in the site description, I noticed this element of “a narrative programming toolkit for remixing user-created stories” and that has me intrigued. Can you or your students tell me more about how that works and what that looks like? (or how it is experienced)
Kevin