General
Information on WebQuests
Three
specific Web sites offer a great deal of information on
Web quests
and how best to use them.
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Bernie Dodge’s The WebQuest Page (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/) includes a valuable resource section
called “Reading and Training Materials.”
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Tom March’s WebQuests for Learning (http://ozline.com/webquests/
intro.html) offers good reasons to use WebQuests and also includes
a guide to designing them (http://www.ozline.com/webquests/design.html).
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Kathy Schrock’s WebQuests in Our Future: The Teacher’s
Role in Cyberspace (http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.htm)
includes a slideshow with guidelines for WebQuest development.
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Collections
of Teacher and Student Experiences and
WebQuests
The
following are just a few of the many sites that offer rich
collections
of WebQuests and information on them.
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The
College of Education, Louisiana State
University (http://asterix.
ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/) offers a
baker’s
dozen elementary, middle, and secondary school sites
created
by students in LSU’s education program.
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Spartanburg
District 3 Country Schools in South Carolina (www.
spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests.html) offers both
information
for and by teachers and approximately 50 amazing
student-created
WebQuests. Here you can find everything from The
Camp Seagull
WebQuest and Create a Zoo Exhibit to A Mozart
WebQuest and
WebQuest Tornado!
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Pojoaque Boot Camp’s WebQuests (http://wapiti.pvs.k12.nm.us
/~Computer/) likewise offer 33 far-ranging student WebQuests.
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Educational Media and Technology (http://itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/
curriculum/webquest.html) is run by the San Bernardino County Superintendent
of Schools District. It offers more detail on each WebQuest in its list,
which divides into elementary (e.g., The World of Puppets) and secondary
(e.g., BioDesigns, Incorporated) quests. Many of these have won significant
awards for their creativity and detail.
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Integrating the Internet into the Curriculum: Using WebQuests
in Your Classroom (http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/linktuts/inteweb.htm)
offers the history of and reasons to use WebQuests, 10 sites to get you
started, and a variation on a Dodge template that can be used for your
own class quests.
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WebQuests Written by Memphis City Teachers (www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/web_que.htm)
has 19 WebQuests for kindergarten through secondary school produced by
16 different teachers.
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NMSU Student WebQuests (www-education.nmsu.edu:8001/
webquest/examples.html) offers approximately 50 WebQuests created
by New Mexico State University education students for the elementary,
middle, and secondary school, and even adult students. Many of the sites
also offer Spanish-language versions.
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Webquests for the School Year, http://academynet.hughesacad.state.
sc.us./web.html—from Hughes Middle School and the School District
of Greenville County, South Carolina—has plenty of sites for middle-school
students and teachers to examine. They’re classified by grade level
and appropriate placement in each year’s instructional calendar.
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The New Hampshire Educational Media Association’s NHEMA
Summer Institute (www.nhptv.org/kn/nhema/webquest/webquest.htm)
offers roughly a dozen well-chosen links to information on WebQuests,
as well as links to the quests themselves.
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