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Create Online Activities and WebQuests

Understanding and the structure and potential of WebQuests for student Learning.

What's a WebQuest?

Inquiry oriented, based on engaging tasks, uses quality web resources, can be short term or long term, often uses roles and cooperative learning

Why use one?

Student motivation and authenticity, real thinking skills, working cooperatively, constructivist theory

Parts of a WebQuest

  1. Introduction

  2. Task

  3. Process

  4. Resources

  5. Evaluation

  6. Conclusion

Some examples of different WebQuests

Steve Bass's WebQuest Influencing a Politician

My feeble, but fun, attempts at long term and short term WebQuests and template.

Lewis and Clark WebQuest
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/lewisclark/index.html

But YOU find some.  Peruse: 

Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Site

Search Filamentality Site

 

Ready to build one ?

Here are the steps - The Road to Creating WebQuests

Start with at topic from the standards PUSD standards in Word

Here are Some Great Places to Find Web Resources

SCORE resources and activities arranged by grade level.

Assemble great sites.  Check out these resources, then Backflip.com - to save your favorite sites.

Catalog of Catalogs of Web Sites for Teachers for great ideas and links

Putting it on the Web

Use Bernie Dodge's   WebQuest Template to copy and paste into your FrontPage web page.

OR

Filamentality - fill in the blanks directions for writing a WebQuest, (You could have students do them too!)

Begin with the end in mind.  Online Rubric Resources 

Design your WebQuest, then share!!

 

| WebQuests Site | "Web Clinic" |

 

~ Some Thoughts About WebQuests ~ by Bernie Dodge

12/8/03 info

EdTech Central (pusdedtech.com)

Teacher Template Page

Student Template Page

Webmaster Resource Page

 

Denise Hogan, Instructional Technology Specialist
Poway Unified School District
dhogan@sdcoe.k12.ca.us
ext.2202