Exploring WebQuests

Cindi Tougas

New Bedford Public Schools
March Technology Conference
2000-2001

Part I What Is A WebQuest?


	The Web Quest Page http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

The Building Blocks of WebQuests

Introduction
Task
Process
Resources
Evaluation
Conclusion

Part II WebQuest About WebQuests

Group Roles
Efficiency Expert	The Affiliator	The Altitudinist	The Technophile
"Time spent and content covered very important"	"Loves collaborative lessons"	"Looks for higher level thinking lessons"	"Looks for technology rich lessons"

	The U.S.A. WebQuest
	King Tut WebQuest!
	The Antarctic WebQuest
	Ancient Egypt WebQuest
	Journey Back in Time

Part III Exploring WebQuests

Some WebQuest Pages:

**Bernie Dodge's Matrix of Examples**

WebQuests: (WebQuests developed by Graduate Students from National-Louis University)

Cool Sites For Teachers

Creating Web Based Lessons

WebQuests: Spartanburg County Schools

Spotlight on Locally Created WebQuests:

Macbeth WebQuest by Debbie Borden
On-line Stock Game by Larry Edmundson
Student Press Law and Ethics WebQuest by Lisha Cabral
Ethnic Christmas Cookies by Ruth Mellen
The Portuguese American by Rosemary da Silva
Ernestina: Discovering Her Past and Links to her Future by Ellen Driscoll

WebQuests Subject Collection

Still Need to Learn More?

A Disney Workshop on WebQuests

The Kiko WebQuest Center: (A new Bernie Dodge collaborative)

IWebQuest.Com (A fairly new Massachusetts based site on WebQuests.)

Some Thoughts About WebQuests (Written by Bernie Dodge)

WebQuests and More (Tom March, an original WebQuest co-creator)

The Student WebQuest (An excellent article written by Maureen Brown Yoder published in Learning and Leading with Technology))

Creating A WebQuest Is Easier Than You Think ( A very comprehensive article written by Linda Starr for Education World)