WebQuest Project

October 1, 2010
Mr. Gaylord, Mac Lab

Webquest Project

Description- A WebQuest is a tool used by tech savvy teachers, as well as, tech savvy students. Its purpose is to incorporate the computer and the world wide web into a project that helps participants learn something about a particular subject. A WebQuest is not just a lesson in disguise but should take participants on a journey that makes them work at a higher level of learning.

Objective- Our objective at Santa Rosa Academy is to have Mac Lab students make a WebQuest, so that they can distribute information at a higher level of learning, and also, think at a higher level themselves.

Resources

http://webquest.org/
https://sites.google.com/
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Requirements:

Topic- Cleared by the instructor
Task- Students must come up with a task for participants to complete in order to learn the information they are trying to present. Tasks must have participants using the internet to accomplish their goal, and must have participants think at a higher level of learning than just summary. 
Process- Student must have a well thought out process in which participants must complete to finish a task. The process should use five hyperlink’s and have these following components: a site that has participants watch something, read something, and/ or play something.
Evaluation- Students must have a tool or rubric, in which to determine how successful a participant was at actually complete the task.
Conclusion- Students must come up with a conclusion for the WebQuest for participants to achieve closure on their completion of the task.

Benchmarks
Topic and Task- October 5, 2010
Process- October 12, 2010
Evaluation- October 16, 2010
Conclusion- October 21, 2010

What is a WebQuest October 1, 2010

What is a WebQuest?

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.
Since those beginning days, tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland.

provided byhttp://webquest.org/