A WebQuest Workshop

with Leanne Twidwell and Josephine Zarro

WebQuests are project-based lessons which require students to use online resources to gather information not available from other sources. A well-designed webquest requires students to use higher order thinking skills to synthesize the information they gather and in some way make it their own or change it as they complete the project. Teachers can design a WebQuest for almost any subject at any grade level and students love them!

The WebQuest page: All you ever wanted to know about WebQuests, and more http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

Matrix of example webquests: examples of excellent WebQuests http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

WebQuest design patterns: a place to get some good ideas http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/designpatterns/index.htm

The design process: a roadmap for building a WebQuest http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/Process/WebQuestDesignProcess.html

A template for building WebQuests: This is a skeleton. You provide everything else. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/LessonTemplate.html

Rubrics: ready-made or design your own. http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/utt/rubricsgeneral.htm

Process guides: stepladders for students http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/processguides/index.htm

Backflip: A handy place to store your URLs so you can find them from any online computer. http://www.backflip.com

Efficient searching: http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Create quizzes for studying and reinforcement http://www.quia.com/

Puzzlemaker: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

For quick one topic group discussion http://www.quicktopic.com/

Response-o-matic: http://www.response-o-matic.com/

Drawing people into your webquest: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/tttc-adv/humanizing.html

Free graphics: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/sdcuegraphics/hotlist.htm

Graphics for a fee: http://www.arttoday.com/

Adobe Bannermaker: http://webservices.adobe.com/banner/main.html

WebQuest Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webquest

Join Bernie Dodge's once-a-month online chat: http://www.tappedin.org/

CTAP online: http://www.ctaponline.org/

This web page: http://www.csudh.edu/soe/Faculty/eLit/wqworkshop.html

Netscape Composer Tutorials: use this when you don't have another web editor. It's free

• From Montana State University. http://www.msubillings.edu/tool/tutorial/
• The University of Alabama: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~ray011/composer.htm
• Auburn Unmiversity College of Veterinary Medicine: http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithg4/tutorial/composer.html

Store files online: When you create a file and have no way to get it home, and for some reason you don't want to e-mail it to yourself as an attachment, save it at one of these locations and retrieve later from some other computer:

• Yahoo briefcase: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/. NOTE: If you're working on a Mac, be sure to add file extension names to your documents (.doc, .xls, etc. It won't upload files that do not have file extensions.)

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