WEBQUESTS    

 

The WebQuest Window

 

 

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"With the Web, students must take charge of their learning and scrutinize everything. WebQuests can help you facilitate this shift and provide students with the skills they need to navigate, rather than surf, the Web"

WebQuests were designed to ...     bring together the most effective instructional practices into one integrated student activity. Tom March

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Visit the WebQuest Window

  An exhaustive listing of WebQuests for kids by theme.

Try these ESL Webquests: 

I want a pet : /kids

Exploring the World of "Memphré"-
Lake Memphremagog's underwater creature: Intensive/...

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WEBQUESTS AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING 
by Nancy Coquard
http://rkenner.concordia.ca/GSE555_98/N_Coquard/gse555p1.html

Some Thoughts About WebQuests,  Bernie Dodge, 
San Diego State University
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596/about_webquests.html

WebQuests in Middle School by Jim Andris, jandris@siue.edu
http://www.siue.edu/~jandris/north/questn.html

Filamentality blends your learning goals with the 
outrageous resources available on the Web
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

The Student Web Quest  By Maureen Brown Yoder
http://www.chicopee.mec.edu/webquest.htm  

 

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Cybersite Tutorial: Visit the WebQuest Window

WebQuests for Learning *****
http://www.ozline.com/webquests/

The WebQuest Page
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

A WebQuest about WebQuests (elementary)
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestwebquest-es.html

A WebQuest about WebQuests (middle and high school)
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestwebquest-hs.html

The WebQuest Design Process
http://www.ozline.com/webquests/design.html

Integrating the Internet into the Curriculum Using WebQuests in Your Classroom
http://l2lpd.arin.k12.pa.us/linktuts/inteweb.htm
  
A Draft Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests from Bernie Dodge
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestrubric.html

 

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Our Lady of Peace School suggested WebQuests
http://olp.swlauriersb.qc.ca/webquest/cia.htm

WebQuest Taskonomy
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/taskonomy.html

WebQuest Collections
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest_collections.htm

Example WebQuests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

WebQuests
http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/webqindx.htm

EconQuest
http://www.infinet.com/~legoe/econques.htm

LSU WebQuests
http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/

Kathy Schrock's WebQuests in Our Future: The Teacher's Role in Cyberspace
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html

WebQuest Matrix - Texas
http://www.esc2.net/TIELevel2/matrix.htm

Other WebQuest links:

Web Tools for TEACHERS.

WebCheck: from WebTop, this service provides a drag-and-drop search interface for locating Web resources. Simply highlight words, sentences, or paragraphs from any document and receive related Web resources. A great way to check for electronic plagiarism.

eGroups: this service provides a group document vault, group conferencing through their group chat and talk feature, group email, and a group calendar. Free.

ThinkWave: manage assignments, activities, calendars, custom grading systems, attendance and make it available to parents and students through a secure Web interface.

Blackboard: create your own online course or add an online component to an existing course. It's free.

Thinkfree: Thinkfree is a new ASP (application service provider) which enables you to use their word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software on any computer, anytime, without concern for operating system. Windows only, Mac will be released soon.

Driveway: Online storage of your files. 25 megabytes of free storage. You can never have enough storage capability. Free

Backflip: Do you have a huge number of bookmarks? Backflip takes your bookmarks, and creates a Yahoo! style directory web page that lists your bookmarks. Better yet, Backflip allows you to search your bookmarks to find that resource you know you have but can't find. This tool is highly recommended and of course, free.

Quizmaker: Create your own online quizzes free of charge!

Filamentality: Create your own web activity and post it to the Internet. Free.

  • Directions for creating a Hotlist using Filamentality.

Homestead.com Create your own web site using a teacher-friendly drag and drop interface and do it for free!

Get a Visto account. Email, calendar, task lists, bookmarks, contacts, and file storage for free!

Get a free Arttoday account and have access to 40,000 images!

NiceNet: online message board, conferencing, document and Web link sharing for your class. Of course, free.

eCollege.com: create a Web presence for your course, including email, gradebook, and Web searching capabilities using eToolkit. Again, it's free!

eFax.com: obtain your own Web fax number so that your faxes are sent to your email account. Of course, it's free.

     

 

 

 

 

 

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