Wow! What a cool thing! WebQuests have tremendous potential for blending various forms of media into a single lesson or project. Prior to learning about these, I have been thinking about how I could create "information scavenger hunts" using websites, but WebQuests (I particularly like www.zunal.com) allows to do so much more! You can attach video, audio, documents, links, etc. These will find themselves on my lesson plans frequently in the upcoming year.
On another note, I read an article on Edutopia that emphasized the humanities in the age of STEM. It was not knocking STEM, but rather calling educators to remember what it is we learn in the humanities, namely lessons for life. There are certain components to the human experience that are universal, e.g. joy, sorrow, communication, etc., and the humanities are where humans learn to navigate through these experiences. As a Bible and history teacher in a Christian school, this is very important. STEM and the humanities are equally crucial in education.
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