A Virtual Library Of Useful URLs - 371.3 WebQuests Lots of great links, Hotlists, and WebQuests. Teaching with WebQuests. Suggested links to The Best Wequests on the Net, including 1998 WebQuests Body http://www.aresearchguide.com/webquests.html
Extractions: Webquest Sites CyberSmart! Curriculum A free k-8 curriculum empowering students to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively. Contents: Curriculum Overview, Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets, Using the Curriculum, and Technology Standards Alignment Buddy Project: Teacher Resources . Lesson Plans. Site aims to help you integrate technology into the classroom with a 3-D model: Develop, Design, and Deliver. Philosophical Day-Trippers . A WebQuest for Grades 10-12 (Introduction to Philosophy Class) from the classroom of Mr. Colletti. Personality Theories: A Web Quest for Advanced Placement Psychology by Christine Zafonte. Understanding Experimentation in Psychology: A Web Quest for Psychology 101 designed by Bernard Schuster. 292.1 Classical mythology, (Greek mythology), (Roman mythology)
Davidson County Schools Our collection of Webquests has been growing for a few years. They are great webquests but you may find that some of the links are broken. http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/webquest.html
Extractions: Web Quests Connecting Students to the World Our collection of Webquests has been growing for a few years. They are great webquests but you may find that some of the links are broken. If you find that you can not link to somewhere in your webquest, please let us know so we can rectify the problem. Thank you. K-2 African Animals The Ultimate Money WebQuest A Bear Hunt ... Other Resources for finding Webquests K-2 African Animals Lions and monkeys are two animals that live in Africa. You may have seen one of these animals at the Zoo. Today you are going to learn more about these two exciting animals. The Ultimate Money WebQuest! We all have experience with money mostly spending it. There is much more to learn about money than where to shop. In this WebQuest, you will learn how money is minted, how to SAVE it, how to make change, and even how to invest it wisely. You will even have a chance to run a small business and see how much money you can make!
Extractions: It's Easier than You Think! WebQuests are probably the most talked-about and widely used Web-based activities in today's classrooms. What are WebQuests? What accounts for their popularity? And how can you use and create WebQuests in your own classroom? This week, Education World explores those questions and more. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. Confucius "A WebQuest," according to Bernie Dodge, the originator of the WebQuest concept, "is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than on looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation."
Extractions: Journey West With Lewis and Clark R. J. Peters, whose creation, Lewis and Clark; A WebQuest, won third prize in the fall 1999 MasterSearch lesson-plan contest, offers Education World's readers a description of the WebQuest educational model and tips for incorporating Internet resources into classroom teaching. Included: More than two dozen links to online resources about Lewis and Clark. "This was by far the best unit I've ever taught," wrote R. J. Peters about Lewis and Clark: A WebQuest , the WebQuest about Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery expedition that she created. "Teaching the Lewis and Clark unit was the first time I was able to motivate every single student to not only participate but also truly care about the quality of the work and at the same time get kids to be fascinated with the journey itself," Peters told Education World. Peters teaches at William R. Lummis Elementary School
Teaching With WebQuests Course Outline Teaching With WebQuests. A Graduate Course for Educators A significant advantage of teaching with WebQuests is that they can lead to a deep http://www.teachereducation.com/webout.html
Extractions: A Graduate Course for Educators Table of Contents Course Description In this course, you will create a web-based lesson that engages your students in higher order thinking and cooperative learning. The WebQuest model that you will learn will be applicable to a wide range of topics, goals, classroom environments and learners. As you progress, you will learn how to develop attractive Web pages, locate useful information on the Web, work collaboratively with other teachers at remote sites, and evaluate complex achievement by your students. You will also learn about teaching for understanding, and develop a set of teaching and assessment strategies you can use with or without the Internet. Top of Page Specific Course Goals By the end of this course, you will be able to: Choose a topic appropriate for teaching with a Web-based inquiry approach. Locate online resources to support a given topic. Use templates and a Web editor to create a personal home page and a set of Web pages to communicate your lesson to students and other teachers.
Teaching With WebQuests A significant advantage of teaching with WebQuests is that they can lead to a To register to take TEI s Teaching With WebQuests online graduate course, http://www.teachereducation.com/course_outlines/graduate_online/teach_webquests_
Extractions: In this course, you will create a web-based lesson that engages your students in higher order thinking and cooperative learning. The WebQuest model that you will learn will be applicable to a wide range of topics, goals, classroom environments and learners. As you progress, you will learn how to develop attractive Web pages, locate useful information on the Web, work collaboratively with other teachers at remote sites, and evaluate complex achievement by your students. You will also learn about teaching for understanding, and develop a set of teaching and assessment strategies you can use with or without the Internet. This course will be offered over a period of 13 weeks and is a 45 hour 3 credit graduate course. If you are not completely comfortable using your computer, the course may seem intense at times and it's important to avoid falling behind. Each of the ten modules of the course will be posted at the beginning of the week and must be completed by the end of the week. During the last few weeks of the course you will be refining your final project and there will be no additional modules.
WebQuests - Emily Thompson a team of teachers who have helped in its development. The site contains an extensive list of WebQuests and other teaching materials for every subject. http://wps.wiscasset-ps.wiscasset.k12.me.us/3t/webquest/index2.htm
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Innovative Teaching - WebQuests Along the way many practitioners have dabbled in WebQuests, some more successfully The collections I offer you today will add to your cache of teaching http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/webquests.htm
Extractions: Can it actually be seven years since Bernie Dodge first presented his idea for a Web-based problem solving model that promoted collaboration and higher-level thinking? Amazingly it has. Along the way many practitioners have dabbled in WebQuests, some more successfully than others. The best Quests have always stuck closely to Dodge's original formula for WebQuest design, and these are the kinds of Quests I sought to identify for you here. Quests are not scavenger hunts or scrap books or virtual versions of worksheets. They are so much more than these. The collections I offer you today will add to your cache of teaching resources by volumes. I opted not to include the old faithful "how to" sites and definitive collections of the past in the hopes of offering you some new resources you may not have been aware of. As teachers you are busy enough and these sites don't ask you to reinvent the wheel. Just find what approximates your needs and adapt it to your classroom. To find other noteworthy WebQuest resources check out my WebQuest page at
Extractions: Colonel Kim A. Bowling is the commander of the Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning (AFIADL). Bowling directs the Air Forceâs largest educational institution and oversees the development of Air Force Advanced Distributed Learning policy, programs and technology. Following commission through Officer Training School in 1980, Bowling began duties with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where she served in a variety of positions at base and headquarters level, including command of an AFOSI detachment. Within the education and training community, Bowling held positions within Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Air Command and Staff College and Squadron Officer School, which included command of a student squadron and vice commandant. Bowlingâs most recent assignment was deputy commander of the 314th Mission Support Group, Little Rock Air Force Base, AR.Read the Full Story As the internet-based learning (IBL) market becomes increasingly global, understanding differing educational values and cultural expectations could provide an important competitive edge for providers (universities, publishing houses, and corporate training entities). How each of person determines "good" or "quality" instruction is to a large degree founded on what educational values that person holds. These values are primarily shaped by (1) cultural norms, (2) the philosophy(s) of learning to which people adhere, and (3) a person's personal preferences for learning. When people's educational values match those embedded in the course, the match-up contributes to their perception of it being a quality educational experience; conversely, when people's educational values do not match those of a course, then dissatisfaction is likely to occur.Read the Full Story
WebQuests There some great WebQuests on practically any topic if you search hard enough. class when you begin to use WebQuests as part of your regular teaching. http://jets.utep.edu/helen_ball/awauson/wauson/webquests.htm
Extractions: WebQuests What is a WebQuest? A WebQuest according to Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet." Make sure you check out an Interview with Bernie Dodge Why should I use a WebQuests with my students? I have found them to be one of the best tools in teaching! First, my students were just thrilled to even get near the computer so this already had their attention in utilizing a WebQuest. Next, I have been amazed at the learning that goes on! The students are not only learning how to research on the internet (which is in itself quite important in this day) but they working together, problem solving, and most WebQuests are interdisciplinary. There is usually a finished product at the end that they are quite proud of and have worked hard over several hours, days or maybe even weeks depending on the WebQuest and your lab availability. Lastly, the teacher becomes the facilitator and the students take the lead in learning and teaching which is what we desire in Constructivist learning What is Constructivism?
Ferl - Teaching And Learning Resource Bank Teaching and Learning Good practice and inspiration on teaching, supporting learners, These pages have been written to accompany the book WebQuests in http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=628&catID=610
WebQuests For Learning shares resources for using, evaluating, creating, and teaching WebQuests. Locating and Evaluating WebQuests A comprehensive overview of WebQuest http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/curriculum/webquests/
Extractions: WebQuests for Learning Kent School District Teacher-Created WebQuests Grades K-4 Puget Sound Cities Puget Sound WebQuest Communities Past and Present Whaling for Information Washington State Road Trip Winter Olympic WebQuest Native American WebQuest Flight Native American WebQuest Grades 5-6 Paddle-to-the-Sea Mission Impossible 3 in Central America Keira Panther (6th grade)
Webquests 2002 WebQuests issue of the Innovative Teaching Newsletter! WebQuests are designed to use learners time well, to focus on using information rather http://www.yorkville.k12.il.us/webquests/webquests.htm
Extractions: We won an award!! Our Page, "...has been selected as a featured site in Lightspan's StudyWeb® as one of the best educational resources on the Web." We have also won the distinction of being featured in the September 29, 2002 WebQuests issue of the Innovative Teaching Newsletter! Innovative Teaching is a nonprofit educational website that seeks to catalogue the best online teaching resources for educators, parents and students. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and identify evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March, and was outlined then in Some Thoughts About WebQuests.
WebQuests In Middle School You will be exploring other middle school webquests in this 45 minute session. How could you specifically use this approach in your teaching, http://www.siue.edu/~jandris/north/questn.html
Extractions: A web-based tool that has excited a lot of teachers in the last two yearsis the webquest. Developed by Prof. BernieDodge (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/People/BDodge/BDodge.html) at San DiegoState University, it is a way to focus the internet-based activities oflearners so that they get both structure and direction, but still havevarying degrees of freedom to explore web resources. In the article WebQuest (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596/about_webquests.html), Prof. Dodgedistinguishes between short term and long term webquests. He then providescritical attributes for webquests, which he says should contain: an introduction that sets the stage, a task that is doable and interesting, a setof information sources needed to complete the task, a description of the process the learners should go through in accomplishing the task,some guidance on how to organize the information acquired, and a conclusion You will be exploring other middle school webquests in this 45 minute session.Once you understand this model, you may decide to develop a webquest foryour own use or to work as a team to consolidate web resources for usein a thematic unit. Several educators developed webquests at this site of an ROE3 Bond-Fayette-EffinghamTechnology/Curriculum Development Workshop: Technologyin the Curriculum Career Quest by Mary Fulton Resumesand Interviews by Mary Fulton Martin LutherKing, Jr
Especially For Teachers - Teaching Ideas And Units Teaching Writing through Talk Using WebQuests Fairytales Alphaladder Hardworking titles Oral response to Remembering Babylon http://www.education.tas.gov.au/english/ideas.htm
Extractions: Beaut Ideas This section of the site enables teachers to share their beaut ideas with their colleagues. Beaut ideas can work well as "one-offs", but are most effective when incorporated into work in progress. If you would like to contribute a beaut idea to the web site, please do so through Enquiries on Line . For other beaut ideas, have a look at Teaching Units Analysing and Responding to Short Stories
BBC | British Council Teaching English - Resources - Webquests Advice on creating webquests for elt. A different kind of class Teaching with dimensions of learning. Alexandria VA Association for Supervision and http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/webquest.shtml
Extractions: Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University was one of the first people to attempt to define and structure this kind of learning activity. According to him, a webquest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet..." This definition has been refined over the years, and adapted for various different disciplines. Philip Benz (See further reading) describes a webquest as follows: " A "WebQuest" is a Constructivist approach to learning (...). Students not only collate and organize information they've found on the web, they orient their activities towards a specific goal they've been given, often associated with one or more roles modeled on adult professions."
