WEBQUEST ASSIGNMENT (Group work)

CONTENTS

Question 1: What is WebQuest?
Question 2: What are the essential components of a WebQuest?
Question 3: What do short-term and long-term WebQuest focus?
Question 4: What are the benefits of the WebQuest?
Question 5: How to create WebQuest?

Question 1: What is WebQuest?

Webquest is a place where learners can update information or improve their knowledge in language learning

Question 2: What are the essential components of a WebQuest?

There are six main criteria for setting a complete webquest.

- The goal
- The task
- Process
- Resources
- Evaluation
- Conclusion

Question 3: What do short-term and long-term WebQuest focus?

• Short-term webquest: This web helps students acquire general knowledge after a short time.
• Long-term webquest: Students can broaden their knowledge of specific skills through a long period.

Question 4: What are the benefits of the WebQuest?

• WebQuests will motivate our students by providing them with

A complex and controversial real-world issue

Up-to-date resources on the Web (from experts, current reporting, and/or fringe groups)

Roles and must develop expertise

Results of student work can be posted or sent to real people for feedback and evaluation.

Cooperative learning groups which mirror real-life situations.

By taking on roles, students become experts on a specific aspect of a large and complex topic.

Encouragement from active learning, critical thinking, and problem solving, simulated personae to interact with via e-mail, and a scenario to work within, giving them an audience to create for a goal and focus for student energies and it makes concrete the curricular intentions of the designer.

Innovative way to integrate World Wide Web because it focuses the learners on a tangible and hi-tech task.

• WebQuests are rooted in learning theory and good teaching practice

Saves teachers time and effort .

Allows teachers to see at a glance the quality of the webquest through the rating system

Allows teachers to see at a glance the content of the webquest through the Educational description of the tasks and the Year/Grade suitability.

Gives teachers new resources each week via email.

Adopted http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/whysubscribebenefits.asp

Question 5: How to create WebQuest?

Webquest designers should start with something simple and easy then step-by-step move on to more complicated and difficult project

1. First have a look at this page Catalog of Catalogs of Web Sites for Teachers. Here comes the collection of a large amount of websites for teachers, classified into categories well arranged.
2. Seconedly, learn how to put things in right order in this website Non-WebQuest 3. Here you will learn what is good or bad for your project
3. Now it’s time for designing. Select a template , Ctrl + A to select the whole page, paste it into a Word processor then edit it. More sophisticated webquest may require basic or advanced html knowledge.
4. Publishing time! Find a server with stable connection to host your Webquest page. You will need to contact your administrator for hosting.