| What is a WebQuest?
The World Wide Web holds great promise as an educational resource. However, without the thoughtful intervention of educators, it remains an overwhelming heap where garbage is mixed in with treasures indiscriminately. WebQuests are one way to harness the information on the Internet to serve your students' needs and to support your curriculum. Developed by Bernie
Dodge of San Diego State University, WebQuests are, in his words: |
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| Many resources about WebQuests have
proliferated on the Internet including several templates and even a
site, filamentality, which attempts to automate the process of creating
WebQuests.
In today's workshop, we will begin by looking at few webquests and determining what the outstanding characteristics of webquests are. We will complete a WebQuest to get to know the process better and get a feel for what students go through. Then we will plan and create a short WebQuest or begin to create a longer one. Objectives:
Six Paths to China: Webquests as short or longer activities Readings and Training Materials about WebQuests
In order to start thinking about your own
curriculum ideas, try the Some resources for your WebQuests Primary Documents Learning sites Blue N Web internet learning sites database Search Sites
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