Time for More Webbing?

     I wanted to expand my variety of resources and formats. I have watched a movie set in Italy to get a feel for the landscape (The American). I learned from the Internet Movie Database that it was filmed in multiple locations in Italy including Rome and Castel de Monte. If I had more time, I would like to watch more films set in Italy to learn visually.

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     I also made an informal questionaire on Survey Monkey and posted the survey to a social networking site in hopes of getting information from individuals who have traveled to Italy.
    I found out what I didn't know by taking a quiz at National Geographic Traveler. Ten questions designed to help teach the user about facts of Italian culture. This was fun and educational at the same time!
     I also visited my local library looking for print resources and nonfiction DVDs on Italy. I found more guidebooks such as National Geographic Traveler's ITALY and I also looked in the youth/juvenile department where I was pleased to find books with lots of pictures and basic information about Italy, such as Ted Park's Taking Your Camera to Italy. I also picked up a guide book of a different nature, a nonfiction memoir Under the Tuscan Sun: at home in Italy which I would love to read for pleasure as well as for information. No DVDs were available at my local library on Italy.
     I also remembered an article in my local paper about a group of women from my hometown visiting Italy within the last year. I search my local paper's archives to locate the article. I realized that I was acquainted with a few of the women in the group. I have called one to schedule an interview about her experiences in Italy.
     I feel like I could find more and more, but it is time to begin weaving things together! I think HS students and younger would definitely need specific time frames so for each stage of an inquiry project to keep them on track. However, this may be hard to put into practice since the process appears to be nonlinear in many ways. Have I exhausted my resources? No. Do I have a wide variety that answer my initial and subsequent questions? Yes, I think so! Cominciamo bene! We are off to a fine start!