Webquests as effective study tools
By Gillian Andrea Ramirez Sanchez
What is a Webquests?
01
According to Bernie Dodge, a webquest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet..."
02
Philip Benz describes a webquest as " A "WebQuest" is a Constructivist approach to learning (...). Students not only collate and organize information they've found on the web, they orient their activities towards a specific goal they've been given, often associated with one or more roles modeled on adult professions."
San Diego State University
Bernie Dodge
One of the first people to attempt to define and structure this kind of learning activity.
Essentially, webquests are mini-projects in which a large percentage of the input and material is supplied by the Internet.
Compelling reasons for using webquests in the classroom
Info
Structure of a webquest
There are usually four main sections to a webquest
04
The Introduction
The Evaluation stage
02
The Task section
03
The Process stage
The skill set for producing a webquest
Research skills
Word processing skills
Analytical skills
Tom March, has produced a flow chart for the design process of a WebQuest:
Define the topic area and the 'end product' (Introduction and Task phases)
Find web resources which are suitable content-wise and linguistically (Resources)
Group the resources according to stages of the Task
Structure the Process - tasks, resources, lexical areas, grammatical areas
Design the Evaluation stages and concepts
The webquest can be put together as a simple word-processed document (add images and links to all the resources learners will need) or as a webpage.
Implementing a webquest
finally, it is important that your learners are aware of what they are doing - of why they are doing it, and of the benefits to them, and the suggested questions for learners to consider include:
- How effective was my contribution to the group work?
- What did I learn about the topics we researched?
- How did my English improve doing this project?
- What did I learn about using the Internet?
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Webquests as effective study tools
By Gillian Andrea Ramirez Sanchez
What is a Webquests?
01
According to Bernie Dodge, a webquest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet..."
02
Philip Benz describes a webquest as " A "WebQuest" is a Constructivist approach to learning (...). Students not only collate and organize information they've found on the web, they orient their activities towards a specific goal they've been given, often associated with one or more roles modeled on adult professions."
San Diego State University
Bernie Dodge
One of the first people to attempt to define and structure this kind of learning activity.
Essentially, webquests are mini-projects in which a large percentage of the input and material is supplied by the Internet.
Compelling reasons for using webquests in the classroom
Info
Structure of a webquest
There are usually four main sections to a webquest
04
The Introduction
The Evaluation stage
02
The Task section
03
The Process stage
The skill set for producing a webquest
Research skills
Word processing skills
Analytical skills
Tom March, has produced a flow chart for the design process of a WebQuest:
Define the topic area and the 'end product' (Introduction and Task phases)
Find web resources which are suitable content-wise and linguistically (Resources)
Group the resources according to stages of the Task
Structure the Process - tasks, resources, lexical areas, grammatical areas
Design the Evaluation stages and concepts
The webquest can be put together as a simple word-processed document (add images and links to all the resources learners will need) or as a webpage.
Implementing a webquest
finally, it is important that your learners are aware of what they are doing - of why they are doing it, and of the benefits to them, and the suggested questions for learners to consider include: