WebQuest

By

Darlene Runyon

WebQuests use World Wide Web resources for inquiry-based instructional activities.  Bernie Dodge, a WebQuest pioneer, describes a  WebQuest as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.  WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation." 

Click on any of the links below to open or highlight the address, copy, and paste it in the URL address window of your internet explorer.

Why WebQuests?

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.html

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month8/

Looking at the format of Webquests: and examples at the site

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm

A webquest about webquests: good for students to do to learm

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestwebquest-hs.html

Weaving the Web into your Curriculum (excellent…don’t skip)

http://www.pitt.edu/~edindex/WebQuests/frames.htm

Webquest templates

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/mywebquest/index.htm

Creating Webquest Envrionment

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm

http://eduscapes.com/sessions/travel/index.htm

Examples of WebQuests

http://bestwebquests.com/default.asp

http://www.union.k12.ia.us/ukhs/WebQuest/WQ_Intro.htm

Google Search

Type in www.google.com . (any search engine will work) and type in the kind of webquests you are looking for with the word “webquest”.

For example, I may type in electricity webquest and will find many choices.

Specialized Search Engines

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html

One of my favorite places…

http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/its/webquests.htm

A Graduate Course WebQuest

http://www.teachereducation.com/webout.html

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/links/index.html

*Making one from scratch…Open word, create hyperlinks (you can save as a document or as a webpage to link to your school website.

Creating Hyperlinks

A hyperlink is a connection between two web pages on the Internet. Hyperlinks can be produced from text or graphics and both methods will be discussed here. Follow these steps to create links to other web sites and pages within your site:

* Type the text you want to appear on the page as a link or add the graphic that will be a link.

* Highlight the text or graphic and click the Insert Hyperlink button on the standard toolbar or press CTRL+K.

* From the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, change the Text to display if necessary.

Save finished WebQuest as a word document or as a webpage. As a webpage, you can post it to your school webpage.

Darlene Runyon

852-7500

drunyon@dcps.org