Go back to the past

WebQuest

Trough Second Life

Go back to the past

Paris 1900

Stage 1: Introduction

The Eiffel Tower is the most emblematic monument in Paris. If one day you have the possibility to go to the past and visit Paris 1900 you will return to one age very different from today. So we propose you to take some of your free time and go to Second Life platform and discover this charming epoch. What did you can do if one day you went do Paris 1900? Imagine you are a reporter team from an international news agency, you will make a text and image report from all places you will visit and all things you can do in 3 days you stay at Paris 1900.

Stage 2. Task

Your task is to:

Work as a team to identify what you can do during 3 days in Paris 1900 place. For begin do a guide plan.
Write some questions to interview some residents who find in Paris 1900. You have all freedom to imagine the questions.
Take screen shots of all places you visit in Paris 1900 and make a SlideShow with some paraphrases.
Do a scrapbook with all pictures you catch, but before send to your agency the best postcards of Paris 1900.

Stage 3. Process and resources

Each team should do the best report of this adventure.

To help you to do your plan guide and report visit these places in Paris 1900 land.

Firstly connect to Second Life platform and search in the map by:

SL Paris1900 [SL Location: Paris1900 128, 128, 0] – Search term: SL Paris1900 in the Map.

SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Paris%201900/128/128/0/

When you’ve arrive to the train station click in this link to go to the surface. Here you begin you report.

You can do the report alone but if you are lost follow these steps and links:

Read here Paris History and write some information

Here take a look to the Calendar and write about the today notice

See the Carrousel and have fun inside

Eat a glace ask for money to your teacher please

Drink a coffee in Café des Artistes

Visit the Museum: see the Claude Monet exhibition

Go to the Eiffel Tower and parachuted off

Visit Les Colonnes Buren and write about Buren Biography

Visit the Paris Gallery and write about the trends

Come to the Moulin Rouge and see couples dancing

Stage 4 - Evaluation

Here is the rubric I'll use to grade your paper:

1. Overall aesthetic typed, neat, met length requirements, organized	1	2	3	4
2. Work organasition
3. Grammar 2 all other grammar	1	2	3	4
4. Vocabulary French IV level, good use of online dictionary	1	2	3	4
5. Time spent	1	2	3	4
6. Use of resources	1	2	3	4
7. Original/creativity	1	2	3	4
8. Participation	1	2	3	4

Stage 5 - Conclusion

Well done. Good work. Now you go to visit Paris Island and you write a description from this place and read it to your classmates.

End!

Adelina Moura