Inquiry Mapping
My inquiry map ended up not turning out the way I had wanted. I had a grand design in my head that did not come to fruition I think because I did not know what sources to go to in order to find out what I wanted. In my mind, I wanted to create timelines tracing texts back to their original sources, noting every remediation of this story/character throughout its history.
For example, if I were to do a timeline of "Dracula" it would start with citing sources containing folktales that Bram Stoker used as a basis for this novel as well as historical information on Vlad the Impaler. It would then progress to Stoker's novel and then onward mentioning every cinematic version of his novel and how the character changed in each film, each being a reflection of the society in which it was made. To make it even more complex, Dracula rip-offs, parodies, offshoots of Stoker's novel and silly things such as a mention of "Count Chocula" cereal and "The Count" from "Sesame Street" would be cited as well. All of these points on the timeline would have links to articles, texts or other sites that would support and give more information about this iteration of the character. The bottom-line is that these timelines would be used as a source to get students to realize that there is a long history to much of the popular things they are reading or watching. Obviously, much of this would have a basis in pop culture, but I think that in giving background on these phenomena will hopefully generate a sense of curiosity in them to dig up the history of other things they are interested in on their own.
What the inquiry map turned out to be instead was a repository of sources dealing with Fairy Tales, Mythology, Folk Tales and End-of-the-World stories. I ended up finding a great deal of information about each of the subjects and tracked down 18 links for each of them to sources that either gave historical background on these genres, provided tales of these sorts from a wide variety of cultures or looked at modern incarnations of these stories.
I think this could be used as a good jumping-off-point or solid foundation to a more expansive project within any of these disciplines. I think this is OK, just not as great as I had hoped. It's waiting to be remediated...
https://www.thinglink.com/user/667083668694499328/scenes
For example, if I were to do a timeline of "Dracula" it would start with citing sources containing folktales that Bram Stoker used as a basis for this novel as well as historical information on Vlad the Impaler. It would then progress to Stoker's novel and then onward mentioning every cinematic version of his novel and how the character changed in each film, each being a reflection of the society in which it was made. To make it even more complex, Dracula rip-offs, parodies, offshoots of Stoker's novel and silly things such as a mention of "Count Chocula" cereal and "The Count" from "Sesame Street" would be cited as well. All of these points on the timeline would have links to articles, texts or other sites that would support and give more information about this iteration of the character. The bottom-line is that these timelines would be used as a source to get students to realize that there is a long history to much of the popular things they are reading or watching. Obviously, much of this would have a basis in pop culture, but I think that in giving background on these phenomena will hopefully generate a sense of curiosity in them to dig up the history of other things they are interested in on their own.
What the inquiry map turned out to be instead was a repository of sources dealing with Fairy Tales, Mythology, Folk Tales and End-of-the-World stories. I ended up finding a great deal of information about each of the subjects and tracked down 18 links for each of them to sources that either gave historical background on these genres, provided tales of these sorts from a wide variety of cultures or looked at modern incarnations of these stories.
I think this could be used as a good jumping-off-point or solid foundation to a more expansive project within any of these disciplines. I think this is OK, just not as great as I had hoped. It's waiting to be remediated...
https://www.thinglink.com/user/667083668694499328/scenes