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The WebQuest
  • Ideal for a collaborative learning project !
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"Information"
  • Information


    • Questions


      • To simulate inquiry and exploration


    • Access to facts


      • Knowledge and wisdom


    • Guidance on how


      • Select
      • Evaluate
      • Apply
      • Organize
      • Synthesize
      • Communicate ideas
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Learners Need
  • Time


    • To watch, wonder
    • To explore, question, search
    • To create


  • Opportunities


  •           Choices and Alternatives


    • Explore
    • Do, try
    • Travel
    • Interact



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Learners Need
  • Tools


    • Resources
    • Technologies
    • Material for physical and mental work


  • Experience


    • Practical
    • Meaningful
    • Active participation
    • Varied activities
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Learners Need
  • Motivation


    • Self-directed
    • Relevant and Meaningful
    • Authentic activities
    • Models


      • Positive
      • supportive
      • enthusiastic


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Learners Need
  • Strategies
    • Techniques to cope with
      • Strengths
      • Weaknesses
      • Opportunities
      • Problems


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Why Use a WebQuest?
  • Justify the cost of placing computers in classrooms
  • Administrators and parents are concerned about students' unguided use of the Internet.


    • Is it really worth the costs?
    • Is it really necessary?


  • Effective use of the Internet in the classroom.


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    Building Blocks
  • Introduction
  • Task
  • Process
  • Resources
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion
  • Teacher Page


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WebQuests Support

    •  Teamwork
    •  Collaborative
    •  Cooperative
    •  Critical thinking
    •  Self-discovery
    •  Self-directed
    •  Self-paced
    •  Inquiry-based
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Duration
  •    Short Term


  • One to three lessons
  • Knowledge acquisition and integration
  • Significant amount of information and makes sense of it


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 Duration
  • Long Term


  • A week to one month
  • Instructional goal
    • Extend and expand knowledge
    • Refine knowledge
  • Learner
    •  analyzes a body of knowledge
    •  transforms it
    •  demonstrates understanding

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        Thinking skills
  • comparing
  • classifying
  • inducing
  • deducing
  • analyzing errors
  • constructing support
  • abstraction
  • analyzing perspectives
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My WebQuests
  • http://www.nelliemuller.com/WebQuestsbyNellieDeutsch.htm*_blank



  • Why a WebQuest?


  • A WebQuest for teachers
  •   http://www.scs.k12.tn.us/why_webquests/why_wq.htm*_blank



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Doing is succeeding!