WebQuest

=﻿So what is a WebQuest?= source:http://webs.schule.at/website/Europa/Europa_webquest_en.htm

=="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 evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March." (source: [])==

===If you are anything like me... I thought a WebQuest was an online scavenger hunt. Boy was I wrong! So you don't know what a WebQuest is? Really? Well a WebQuest is an online lesson the teacher creates to let the students go online and explore a specific topic. You can set it up like a mission. Use more open ended questions so they have to do their own research and come up with their own conclusions. At the end of the WebQuest you can have them complete some sort of final product, like a brochure, or a powerpoint, or even just a worksheet where they answer each of their mission questions. The thing is, instead of just setting them free out on Google or Ask Jeeves, you set up a list of Web sites you want them to get their information from. That way they aren't wasting their time all class period on sites that are just worthless. You can even create a rubric to grade the final product.===