|
PreK-12 Models
Content Area
Models
Parent Models
*Showcase
Models
Integration Assistant
TIPS
Robotics in the Classroom
Clay
Animation Made Easy
Language Arts Video Case
Studies
Workshops
|
WebQuests: A Training Session
|
Some
Thoughts on WebQuests (Dodge, 1997) |
|
Definition
(Dodge, 1997)
"A
WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the
information that learners interact with comes from resources on the
internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. There are at
least two levels of WebQuests that should be distinguished from one
another."
|
|
Short Term
WebQuests (Dodge, 1997)
"The
instructional goal of a short term WebQuest is knowledge acquisition
and integration, described as Dimension 2 in Marzano's (1992)
Dimensions of Thinking model. At the end of a short term WebQuest, a
learner will have grappled with a significant amount of new
information and made sense of it. A short-term WebQuest is designed to
be completed in one to three class periods.
|
|
Longer Term
WebQuest (Dodge, 1997)
"The
instructional goal of a longer term WebQuest is what Marzano calls
Dimension 3: extending and refining knowledge. After completing a
longer term WebQuest, a learner would have analyzed a body of
knowledge deeply, transformed it in some way, and demonstrated an
understanding of the material by creating something that others can
respond to, on-line or off-. A longer term WebQuest will typically
take between one week and a month in a classroom setting."
|
| View a brief
PowerPoint presentation about WebQuests.
At the end of this presentation, do not go to see a WebQuest
because it will probably be a secondary WebQuest.
Instead, come back to this page and continue. Or
of you want, take a WebQuest about WebQuests for elementary,
grades
3-4, middle
school,or high
school.
|
| One
site allows you to select a WebQuest by keyword, grade level, and
subject. It will also allow you to develop your own WebQuest. Visit the TrackStar
sight to find a WebQuest for your grade level.
When you get brave, you can develop one of your own.
|
|
Bernie
Dodge provides an extensive set of Training
Materials including a step-by-step process for building a WebQuest,
Building
Blocks of a WebQuest.
|
| Visit a WebQuest
for young children: An
Insect’s Perspective Go to the bottom of the page to find
An Insect's Perspective.
Visit a WebQuest for older
children: Land
of the Free and Home of the Braves
|
| Visit some
WebQuest Collections and search for one that might fit your class.
Memphis
City Schools
Science
Centered WebQuests
Bernie
Dodge WebQuests
TrackStar
Bernie
Dodge's Graduate Student's WebQuests
Pacific
Bell Online Learning
|
|
Training
Agenda
Designed by Jeri A. Carroll, February 9, 2001
Date of last update: January 10, 2002
|
|
