Here it is, Eu Khim's and my webquest:

http://geographyoffood.sphosting.com

I hope your web browser has a pop-up blocker. For this free web hosting site actually comes with a price. Lots and lots of annoying advertisements popping up here there everywhere.

I showed my girlfriend the webquest. She commented, 'I wish my geography teachers did something like that for us. Maybe I would have then liked the subject.'

I guess there is something to be learnt here. This is partly what student-centred learning is all about. Understanding what excites students, what motivates students, and creating engaging lessons that would promote self and peer learning. Too many of my friends hate Geography. Many of them raise their eyebrows when I comment to them that I major in Geography, and am looking forward to being a geography teacher. To them, Geography is just about rocks, rivers and industries. And copying down in lectures the 20 factors that affect the above mentioned.

Geography is actually a very unique subject, it covers almost every realm of the world we live in. It may perhaps be the subject that is the most relevant to all, for it deals with current issues of the world. What shapes this world we live in, why is the environment so and so, what should we be concerned about this earth and society, what can we do to contribute as a Singapore, world and earth citizen. As my JC tutor use to say, Geography is the Mother of all subjects.

And because of Geography's nature of being such a dynamic and relevant subject, it lends itself to webquests very very well. There are too many issues we have to face up to in this messy world we live in. To keep up to date, there can be no better resource than the cauldron of information in the World Wide Web. And students love exploring the web! We have the curriculum stating to us what we need to teach, we have textbooks aiding us in this endeavor, but we need to take advantage of the web to make the curriculum constantly relevant and engaging for our students. We teach not only to fulfill syllabus requirements, but as Dr Chang repeatedly emphasize, there is some Big Idea behind every lesson we teach. Teaching Geography is also about moulding attitudes, developing opinions and encouraging moral development. Webquests is one method towards achieving such a goal. Hopefully, as students plough through the webquests each one of us in class has prepared, they would learn not only content knowledge, but also develop a critical eye towards issues and web sites they encounter.

Signing off, Keeevin the eternal idealist. :) Enjoy our webquest.. with wine or not, up to you.