WebQuest Workshop

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2003 Content/Teaching Academy
WebQuest Workshop
Karen Campbell June 24, 2003
James Madison University
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2003 Content/Teaching Academy
WebQuest Workshop
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in
which most or all of the information used by
learners is drawn from the Web.
What is a WebQuest?
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A good WebQuest should -

• Use the learners time well
• focused searches
• Focus on using information rather than looking
  for it
• application of knowledge
• Support learners higher order thinking
• analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

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2003 Content/Teaching Academy
WebQuest Workshop
Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion
What is a WebQuest? Critical Attributes
Building Blocks of a WebQuest
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Introduction

• Orients learner to what is coming
• Grabs the learners attention

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Task

• Describes what the learner should have done at
  the end of the exercise
• Product
• Verbal act

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Process

• Suggests the steps that the learners should go
  through in completing the task
• Strategies for dividing the tasks
• Descriptions of roles or perspectives to be taken
  by each learner

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Evaluation

• Describes to the learner how their progress will
  be evaluated
• Rubrics

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Conclusion

• Summarizes the experience
• Encourages reflection

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Do a WebQuest on WebQuests

• Go to http//webquest.sdsu.edu
• One correction
• Keeping Their Stories Alive is now located at
  http//bugges.wcpss.net/webquests/main.htm

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Create your own!!! Templates are available at
The WebQuest Page
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Participate in an online discussion at Tapped In
tonight from 700 800 p.m.