The following links and resources are used during the 4-day WebQuest Academy class for teachers.
This class is taught by:
Stan Smith
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Warrensburg R-VI Schools
Warrensburg, Missouri
ssmith@warrensburg.k12.mo.us
Introduction
to Web Browsers and the Internet:
Downloading
Common Web Browsers:
Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com
Netscape Communicator: http://www.netscape.com
Searching
the Internet:
Conducting Web
Searches:
http://www.Lycos.com
http://infoseek.go.com
http://www.goto.com
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
Meta Search
Engines:
http://www.metacrawler.com
or http://www.go2net.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.37.com
Bernie Dodge's
"7 Steps to Better Searching":
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/WebQuest/searching/sevensteps.html
What a WebQuest is NOT:
Interactive
Web Adventures:
Coral Reef
Fish Count: http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/coral
Who's Out There:
http://www.seti.org/game/index.html
Interactive Online Adventure Site: http://www.eduweb.com
Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection: http://www.learner.org/exhibits
Web Treasure
Hunts:
Black History
Treasure Hunt: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/hunt.html
The Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
PEP Cool School Sites: http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Schools/treasure.html
Internet Treasure Hunts for Students: http://www.ctnba.org/ctn/k8/treasure.html
Developing a Treasure Hunt: http://members.tripod.com/elpage/treasure.htm
What
a WebQuest IS:
Introduction
to WebQuests:
Using WebQuests
in your Classroom:
http://l2lpd.arin.k12.pa.us/linktuts/inteweb.htm
The Student
WebQuest:
http://www.iste.org/L&L/archive/vol26/no7/features/yoder/index.html
Stan
Smith's Introduction to WebQuests Slide Show:
An HTML version of
a 16-slide presentation about the parts of a WebQuest
(this
presentation is modified from ideas from The
WebQuest Page
and Kathy
Schrock's
work)
Online
Tutorials on WebQuests:
Disney Learning
Partnership Workshop Month 8 - WebQuests (This one is REALLY great!)
http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/concept2class/month8
WebQuest 101
- Putting Discovery into the Curriculum
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml
Bernie
Dodge and Tom March WebQuest Pages:
Bernie Dodge's
WebQuest Page:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
Tom March's
Ozline WebQuest Page
http://www.ozline.com/webquests
WebQuest
Examples:
Dolphin Safe
Tuna:
http://www.richmond.edu/%7Eed344/webquests/dolphins
Does the Tiger
Eat its Cubs?:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/childquest.html
Searching for
China:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.html
A WebQuest
About WebQuests:
Elementary
Version:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestwebquest-es.html
Middle/High
School Version:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestwebquest-hs.html
WebQuest
Taskonomy:
Describes 12
categories for describing what you ask learners
to do, which can lead to higher level thinking.
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/taskonomy.html
Download
a WebQuest Template
This template
will need to be unzipped with a decompressing utility such as
Stuffit Expander or WinZip. This is a WebQuest template based
upon ideas from some of the templates from The WebQuest Page. I have added links to different
pages for each role that students take on, plus several other
important modifications.
Locating
Web Resources for your WebQuest
Three different
strategies, with lots of helpful links
"Working
with Images" Reference Guide
An introduction
to digital image types, characteristics, etc.
Getting
Images from the Web
A brief description
of "copying" and "downloading" images from
web sites
Great
Web Sites for Free Digital Images
Sites for
copyright-free digital images you can use on your own web pages
Editing
Images with Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0
A detailed
tutorial for preparing images for web pages
Web
Page Authoring with Adobe PageMill 3.0
A detailed
tutorial for making basic web pages
Locating
Experts to Collaborate with Your WebQuest Students
Four methods
for locating experts, with links to Ask an Expert web
sites
Checklist for WebQuest Process
Section
A list for
self- or peer-review of the Process portion of your WebQuest
Fine Points
Describes 14 little things
you can do to improve the aesthetics
and professionalism of your WebQuest
Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests
Is your WebQuest
as good as it could be?
