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The WebQuest
Ideal for a collaborative learning project !
Computers and the Internet are valuable teaching and learning tools.
The Joy of Learning
Nellie Deutsch July 4, 2005 ETAI Annual Conference
Inspired by Annette Lamb’s I-Totems

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 Information
 Questions
 To simulate inquiry and exploration
 Access to facts
 Knowledge and wisdom
 Guidance on how
 Select
 Evaluate
 Apply
 Organize
 Synthesize
 Communicate ideas
Learners Need

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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/WebQuestsbyNellie
Deutsch.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!
So go for it …