| "Don E." |
| Don E. Descy | |||
| Minnesota State University | |||
| Today |
| Introduction | |
| Definition of terms | |
| Finding the Œright¹ WebQuest | |
| Anatomy of a WebQuest | |
| Evaluating a WebQuest | |
| Examples |
| Why WebQuests? |
| Infuse technology into the classroom and curriculum | |
| Match YOUR curriculum and your needs | |
| Match YOUR students and their needs | |
| Safe surfing for students | |
| Why WebQuests? |
| Use strategies to increase student motivation | |
| Ideal for cooperative learning | |
| Develop thinking skills | |
| Uses many resources | |
| Encourage students to explore new ideas, ways to present these ideas |
| Definition of a WebQuest |
| An inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that students interact with comes from resources on the Internet. |
| A Typical WebQuest |
| Finding the Œright¹ WebQuest: |
| Use one that someone else has developed | |
| Modify someone else's to your needs | |
| Make your own WebQuest | |
| Have students make them! |
| Use someone else¹s WebQuest |
| Check for examples at http://webquest.sdsu.edu or other sites | |
| Search the Web for ³WebQuests² | |
| Does it fit curriculum goals? | |
| Does it contain all of the required elements or information? | |
| Don¹t forget to evaluate: As a WebQuest and fitting your needs (pilot it!) |
| Modify someone else¹s WebQuest |
| Modify for your class: Grade level, interest, ability... |
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| Modify for your needs: Goals, resources, alternative outcomes, scenarios... |
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| Modify for your location: Region, history, geography, weather, famous people/locations |
| Modify someone else¹s WebQuest |
| Ask permission to modify | |
| Let original author use modifications | |
| Give original author credit for idea |
| Make your own WebQuest |
| Yourself or with students | |
| Do you have equipment/expertise? | |
| Brainstorm ideas | |
| Doable tasks | |
| Decide on resources Web/others | |
| Diagram site (Use Inspiration!) | |
| Get to work! | |
| Have your students make them |
| Groups work best | |
| Give examples | |
| Use templates | |
| Give detailed directions | |
| Use a filtered directory or give them
the sites |
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| Resources can be print or nonprint |
| Helpful hints for future reference |
| Become familiar with resources online in your content area | |
| Organize the resources into categories like data bases, reference materials, etc. | |
| Identify topics that fit with the curriculum and that have materials online | |
| Two types of WebQuests |
| Shorter Term | |
| Designed to be completed in one to three class periods | |
| Longer Term | |
| Designed to take between one week and one month |
| Shorter Term WebQuest |
| Instructional goal is ... | |
| knowledge acquisition and integration | |
| Learner deals with a significant amount of new information and makes sense of it |
| Longer Term WebQuest |
| Instructional goal isŠ | |
| Extending and refining knowledge | |
| Learner deeply analyzes a body of knowledge, transforms it, and demonstrates understanding by presenting it in some way |
| Anatomy of a WebQuest |
| Developed in 1995 by Bernie Dodge and Tom March | |
| Excellent site located at San Diego
State University. http://webquest.sdsu.edu |
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| 6 Elements of a WebQuest |
| 1. Introduction | |
| 2. Task | |
| 3. Process | |
| 4. Information Resources | |
| 5. Evaluation | |
| 6. Conclusion |
| #1: Introduction |
| Should orient the learner to what is going to happen | |
| Should grab learners and make them want to continue | |
| Express a need to continue |
| ³BatQuest² (ele) |
| Stellaluna became lost from her mother when she was a baby. She did not get a chance to learn about who she was. Stellaluna feels very sad because she is not like her bird friends. Let's help Stellaluna learn more about being a bat. Stellaluna is a very unique mammal with special gifts. It will be your quest to learn the facts about bats. You can help teach Stellaluna and others about the special qualities of being a bat. |
| ³Basque Country Journey² (mid) |
| The French and Spanish level one students are planning a Spring break trip to the Basque Country. Discover good surf, great beaches, and delicious cuisine that contribute to the well known reputation of the Basque country on either side of the Pyrenees. Behind the touristy scene exists a profound and economically orientated lifestyle and a culture striving to be stronger. You and a partner will research a Spanish or French city in the Basque Region. You will gather information on its geographic location, history, tourism, and the three languages that are part of everyday life. |
| ³Prison: Punishment or Party?² (HS) |
| Prison reform is a hot issue today and there is a great deal of conflict over what prisoners' rights should be. In this project, you will be exploring the opposing viewpoints on this topic, evaluating statistics, and reading about life in American prisons. As a team, you will be working to create a handbook of "Prisoners' Rights" in a fabled prison. Team members will take the following roles: victim, prison warden, politician, tax payer, or prisoner. Though you may have strong feelings based upon the research you do, your team must reach consensus on the handbook. |
| #2: Task |
| Tells what the learner will have completed at the end of the quest | |
| May be a product or a
presentation
(PowerPoint, speech, play, artwork, game, movie, anything assessable..) |
| BatQuest |
| After reading the book, work alone or
with a partner to find out more information about bats. You will investigate:
*the different types of bats *how bat mothers care for their babies *echolocation *unique bat characteristics *why bats are important to the world |
| Basque Country Journey |
| 1. Decide on which city (according to the language you are studying) you would like to visit and describe the geographic location, history, and language. | |
| 2. Depending on your city, find out the unit of currency and its current exchange rate against the US dollar. | |
| 3. Find out typical spring weather conditions. | |
| 4. Search for two hotels in the city you would like to stay at. Include information such as address, phone number, price range, and services they offer. | |
| 5. Find three restaurants for Spanish, French and Basque cuisine. Include information such as price range, address, and several menu items. | |
| 6. Find three activities to do while at the city. Include a brief description of each place and the cost if any. |
| Prison: Punishment or Party? |
| Students will research prisoner rights today from a specific perspective as they assume one of the following roles: victim, prison warden, politician, tax payer, or prisoner. Students will write individual proposals for the handbook and then debate the issues until consensus is reached. |
| ³Task-onomy² (1) |
| Re-telling Tasks: Most common, least challenging | |
| Compilation Tasks: Familiarizes student with content, then enables them to transform the information acquired | |
| ³Task-onomy² (2) |
| Mystery Tasks: Find information from multiple sources, infer, and predict | |
| Journalistic Tasks: Broaden understanding by using multiple accounts/inputs and outputs |
| ³Task-onomy² (3) |
| Design Tasks: Anything goes: Encourages creativity | |
| Creative Product Tasks: Open- ended creativity with guidelines: a product needed by an individual |
| ³Task-onomy² (4) |
| Persuasion Tasks: Combined with consensus building: Trying to convince others of a particular viewpoint |
| ³Task-onomy² (5) |
| Self-knowledge Tasks: Compels learner to answer questions about themselves | |
| Analytical Tasks: Analysis of the implications of task |
| ³Task-onomy² (6) |
| Judgement Tasks: Learners must create own criteria for evaluation | |
| Scientific Tasks: Learners make & test hypotheses |
| #3: Process |
| Clearly described steps | |
| Lets the learner know the process to go through to accomplish task | |
| Can also provide help, comments, advice |
| BatQuest (1) |
| 1. Stellaluna is one type of bat, a megabat. Bats can be first classified into two groups, megabats and microbats. Then there are several different types of bats within these two groups. Choose who will investigate the megabats and who will investigate the mircrobats. Click on the paper for your task sheets and click on the megabat and mircrobat buttons for more information. | |
| 2. Stellaluna had a loving mother. You will work with your partner and complete the assignment together. Your job is to find out how bat mothers care for their babies until they are able to be on their own. Click on the mother bat for information and the baby bat for the task sheet. |
| BatQuest (2) |
| 3. Bats can fly at night and not get hurt. Investigate their special gift called echolocation. Your job is to discover how echolocation works. Could you use echolocation to see in the dark like bats do? Click on the bat to find out. Click on the paper for your task sheet. | |
| 4. Bats are unique mammals. Discover
all about their special traits and how they help our world. *After you become a "Bat Master", investigate why people are afraid of bats. How could you change the minds of people who are afraid of bats so they might like bats? |
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| 5. Write a letter to Stellaluna and explain to her why she is so special. This is your opportunity to show that you are a bat expert! |
| Basque Country WebQuest |
| 1. Go to the sites above to find the required information. | |
| 2. Design a travel brochure using the target language that represents the city and the places you chose to visit. Include pictures and brief information that would entice the reader to visit the location. The brochures will be shared with the rest of the class. | |
| 3. Create a detailed plan including all your information, prices, and web page addresses that you used to gather your information. |
| Prison: Punishment or Party? (1) |
| 1. Within your group, either choose a role, or draw for your role. | |
| 2. Examine the web-based and print resources to discover what the issues are from your unique point of view. Use the set of Questions for exploration to help you get started (but don't limit yourselves!) | |
| 3. Create an outline of rights prisoners should have in the newly created prison. Write a statement summarizing your point of view. Use HyperStudio. Be sure to include a bibliography of the resources used, these should be in a variety of formats: web sites, magazines, newspaper articles, books, etc. | |
| Prison: Punishment or Party? (1) |
| 4. Present your "demands" to your group using HyperStudio. Take notes while the other members of your group present their outlines. | |
| 5. Debate the issues within your group. | |
| 6. After reaching consensus, create a presentation of the group's Prisoners Rights Handbook to the class at-large using PowerPoint, HyperStudio, Posters, or another format approved by the teacher. | |
| 7. Use the rubric to grade your individual work and the group's performance. |
| #4: Information Resources |
| List of teacher selected web sites for learner |
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| May use external or internal links | |
| May include non-Web resources: books, worksheet, video, etc. |
| Basque Country WebQuest |
| Go to the Pays Basque page (in French) to find out more information on the Region. | |
| Click here for language information. | |
| Links to different activities in Basque Country. | |
| Go to TourAdour.com to find information on history, hotels, and leisure activities. | |
| Go to City.net to find information in Spanish about the Pais Vasco. | |
| Go to Buber's Basque page for lots of information in French and Spanish. |
| Prison: Punishment or Party? |
| 1. Use Inspire to find newspaper or magazine articles on prisons in the United States. | |
| 2. On-line articles | |
| ( 6 sites listed) | |
| 3. Print Resources-Please consult
at least one print resource. (3 books listed) |
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| #5: Evaluation |
| Needed to measure results | |
| Must fit goals and objectives | |
| Evaluation rubrics often best for authentic assessment | |
| Is it the Quest, the question or the student? | |
| All Sites |
| All had detailed Rubrics for Group and Individual Assessment |
| #6: Conclusion |
| Brings closure to the Quest | |
| Reviews learning | |
| Reflection, review, rethinking | |
| Ideas for future study |
| BatQuest |
| Now that you have become a bat expert,
visit these fun and exciting sites. You can learn even more about bats or
play bat games and make bat art. Maybe you would like to build a bat house in
your backyard! *Crossword *Stellaluna Online *Bat Quiz *Build a Bat House *Bat Games |
| Basque Country WebQuest |
| By researching the city of your choice you will become in contact with the Basque culture before our Spring break trip. This project will sharpen your Internet research skills and will help you learn different cultures. |
| Prison: Punishment or Party? |
| As the number of prisoners increases yearly and the number of new prisons does not increase to meet the overflow of prisoners in the United States criminal justice system, more and more individuals are placed into potentially explosive places. Prisoners' rights are sometimes abused in this fragile system. At the same time, prisoners are known to abuse the system themselves by filing ludicrous lawsuits and demanding unreasonable accommodations for someone who has committed a crime. Some people believe that prison life is too easy and thus not a deterrent to crime. Others point to the resent case in Jasper, Texas, where a man who did not grow up to hold racist beliefs learned racial hatred in prison and ended up brutally murdering a black man, causing an outraged nation to wonder, "How bad is prison life that prisoners leave more violent and prone to crime that when the entered the system?" These are all valid, powerful viewpoints which deserve to be explored and evaluated. Ultimately, some consensus must be reached in for change to be made. |
| Non-critical Attributes |
| May be group or individual activities | |
| May include role-playing | |
| Single subject or interdisciplinary |
| Evaluating WebQuests |
| Is the information accurate? | |
| Does the page look inviting and appealing? | |
| Is it easy to use? | |
| Is it a good use of class/student/your time? | |
| Is it a good use of Web/technology? |
| Examples |
| San Diego State WebQuest Page: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html | |
| WebQuest World: http://www.ci.swt.edu/faculty/ peterson/webquestworld2/WebQuestWorldHome.html |
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| WebQuest Workshop Resources: http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/webquests.html |
| Sites: |
| BatQuest: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/ chavez/batquest/navigator.html |
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| Basque Country WebQuest: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/ Olympus/6360/basque.html |
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| Prison: Punishment or Party?: http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/ webq/webq63/ |
| Questions ?? PowerPoint Available at: descy.net |
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