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How to make a webquest!

evaluationProcessIntro/Task Your product conclusion

Introduction/task

• This is a simple web-quest outlining how to design your own web-quests for your class.

• At the completion of you web-quests you will have designed your own and tested it out on your class.

• The children in you class will evaluate how easy it was to use and you will use your learning experience and their evaluation to rate your success.

Process

1. Explore web-quests available online using the following sites:

1. Best Webquests

2. Webquests.com

3. TKI

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Process

2. Evaluate, using 5 criteria what you believe makes an awesome web-quest from what you have seen. Design a rubric containing your criteria using Rubistar.

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Process

3. Design your own web-quest and include the following:

1. Introduction/Task

2. Process

3. Conclusion

4. Evaluation

5. Resources – web-based, books, media

Things to remember

• Have links to each step included on the front page of your quest.

• Add links back to the homepage from each separate page.

• If you want the kids to use the internet but not go online, save the web pages into a folder along with the webquest powerpoint/file and any other resources you have used and link these offline web pages to your quest.

• Pretty it up a bit – kids like visual!

Your Product

• Test your webquest out on your class and see how effective it is.

• Ask children for feedback, some suggestions include:– Was is easy to follow?– Did they enjoy it – what was it they enjoyed?– Did they complete the tasks in the allocated time?– Did all the links work?

• Evaluation sheet

evaluation

• Using the rubric you made to assess other web-quests, assess your own. However, first you must add two more criteria based on the feedback given by your students.

• Rubistar

Conclusion

• Web quests are great for making up independent units of work where your students follow a structured process. The first time you use one you may have to scaffold the process so they know how to do it next time round on their own.

• Web quests initially may be a lot of work to set up. Perhaps choose subject areas where you will re-teach, thus reuse year after year. Just check the links are still valid!

• Enjoy your web quest journey!