Webquests

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Webquests
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What is a Webquest?

• Inquiry-based lesson format in which most or all
  the information that learners work with comes
  from the web.

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Why Use Webquests?

• Introduce topics
• Provide depth for current topics
• Differentiated Instruction
• Skills Practice
• Structured/Unstructured Research Tool

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Basic Webquesting

• Use an existing webquest as is
• Modify an existing webquest
• Design your own

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Where to Begin

• www.webquest.org
• What should a webquest be?
• What are canned examples
• Quest Garden (make your own scaffold)

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Preparing Students

• Mechanics
• Setup Time
• File unretrievable
• Cant deliver
• Lacking software skills

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Mechanics Developing Skills

• Login
• Getting to and navigating a website
• www.cellsalive.com
• Saving a file on school computers
• Flash drives
• Personal Folders
• Accessing Files from Home
• Printed or Emailed deliverable
• Verbal Presentation

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Mechanics Goal

• GOAL
• All students learn mechanics of an electronic
  assignment (home and school
• Students learn (and present) new materials
• Weaknesses IDd

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Preparing Students Site Navigation

• Site navigation
• Wandering students
• I couldnt get to the site
• Information Overload

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Site Navigation/Wandering

• Learned Skill
• Projected website student computers
• In-class assignment
• Deliverable includes key checkpoints
• Classroom setup to view student screens

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Information Overload

• Utilize grade appropriate Sites
• Many sites ID grade specificity
• Require summary tools
• Tables
• Flowcharts
• Key Ideas

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Site Navigation Getting There

• Home computers may need animation software
• Flash
• Quicktime
• Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding
• Hot Links decrease URL errors

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Other Skills to Develop

• Key Points
• Flow Charts
• Tables
• Website Goodness
• What is a credible source
• Teamwork Effectiveness

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Mistakeproofing

• Electronic Assignments
• Clickable Links
• Documents on Website
• Examples (previous years)
• Peer-review

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A good place to start

• www.teachersdomain.org
• www.webquest.org
• www.Myteacherpages.com