1. What Is a WebQuest? And How Do We Co-Create One?
For LS5233: Multimedia Resources and Services by Judi Moreillon, Ph.D. with Support from former G.A. Joni Hill Texas Woman’s University School of Library and Information Studies

2. What is a WebQuest? Online learning activity
Presents a task, a dilemma, or a problem to solve
Capitalizes on online resources

3. WebQuest Strategies Often includes cooperative learning strategies
Intended to be an independent learning experience for students
Designed to be shared with other educators

4. WebQuests
Provide a five-step structure for organizing an inquiry or research process:
Inquiry – more open-ended, student-centered (required for this course)
Research (in K-12) – more often teacher-directed (as in teacher determining the questions in advance)
Require students to read and use many skills
Offer students easy access to online resources and documents

5. Why Zunal.com + 5233 Requirements?
Zunal.com provides a structure and a way for educators to share their work.
Plus For 5233: Online Pathfinder
Plus For 5233: More Effective Teacher Page Components
Objectives
Summary
Additional Resources
Standards

6. Title Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Teacher Page
WebQuest – Components
Title
Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
Teacher Page

7. WebQuest – Where do we begin?
Teacher Page – UbD (Wiggins and McTighe)
Learning Objectives
At the end of this WebQuest, students will be able to…
1./2./3….
Teacher-centered information about the WebQuest
Additional Resources, Materials
Standards – AASL, ISTE NETS*S, TEKS (content area plus technology)

8. Standards

9. Title - Develop a short, meaningful title
WebQuest
Title - Develop a short, meaningful title
Description: One sentence
Grade Level: Can be a single grade level or a range of levels (as long as the standards apply)
Curriculum: Primary content area – language arts, social studies, science, and more (Technology is assumed unless it is the topic.)
Keywords: three or four keywords that describe the content

10. WebQuest – Five Steps for Learners
Introduction
Present a task, a dilemma, or describe or pose the problem to solve.
Motivate the learners – make it compelling!
Provide just a few resources to establish relevance or build background knowledge.

11. WebQuest – Five Steps for Learners
Introduction
Task
Describe what you want students to do – both the process and the product.
Show them how they will be evaluated; provide the rubric or other assessment tool (s). (This is not part of the Zunal WebQuest model; it is critical to Ubd and best practices in instruction.)

12. WebQuest – Five Steps for Learners
Introduction
Task
Process
Describe how students should proceed.
Provide them with resources, graphic organizers, and any other tools they will need.

13. WebQuest – Five Steps for Learners
Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Describe the assessment.
Attach one or more assessment documents.

14. WebQuest – Five Steps for Learners
Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
In the conclusion, students create a final product and/or present or share their learning.
Attach the assessment document(s) again.

15. Challenges with WebQuests for Youngest Students
Youngest students may not be able to read on their own or comprehend the online resources that are essential ingredients in “Web” quests.
Strong Recommendation: Create WebQuests for grades 3 and up.

16. Challenges with Zunal.com
No expectation for the ethical use of information or easy way to cite image sources used on the WebQuest
Required for 5233:
Include the citation in the textbox itself (preferred), or
Make a COMPLETE citation the first resource on the page.

17. Challenges with Zunal.com
No organized and scaffolded way to share online resources
Required for 5233: Separate pbworks.com wiki-based, LiveBinder, or other collaboratively created Pathfinder
Organized according to subtopic or other scheme in order to scaffold students’ use of the resources
Can include print as well as online resources
Can include information about searching, creating citations, or other skill set information

18. What are Online Pathfinders?
Pathfinders offer pre-selected Web-based and print resources. They may include
additional information about searching,
notemaking,
citing,
or other skills and resources students will need to make the best use of the pathfinder as a resource for learning.

19. What are Online Pathfinders?
Pathfinders are
linked to school library Web sites.
LiveBinders.com is a free pathfinder tool.
LibGuides is a subscription (fee-based) pathfinder tool.
In 5233, pathfinders MUST be publicly accessible.

20. Sample Pathfinders These are linked from Module 2.4:
Elementary Pathfinders: These pathfinders are resources for my book Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact (ALA Editions, 2007).
Secondary Pathfinders: These pathfinders are resources for my book Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact (ALA Editions, 2012).

21. Sample Pathfinders These are linked from Module 2.4:
EGJHTVHS Pathfinders: These are pathfinders I co-created with classroom teachers in
Genocides in the 20th and 21st Centuries Pathfinder: This is a sample pathfinder for the A.3.1 WebQuest assignment.

22. Integrating Web 2.0 into WebQuests
As brainstorming, prewriting, storyboarding tools
As resources created by educators for student use
As notemaking and citation tools
As final product presentation tool choices
As ???

23. Planning with teachers; Coteaching;
Predictors of Student Achievement, particularly in reading and language arts
Planning with teachers;
Coteaching;
Teaching ICT (information and communication technologies);
and providing in-services to teachers (Achterman ).

24. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Identify information needs then
Access
Evaluate
Manage
Integrate
Create
Communicate information using 21st-century technology tools.

25. Review LS5233 Requirements:
Collaboration between classroom teacher and school librarian
Evaluation shared on the Task page – UbD – backwards planning

26. Review LS5233 Requirements:
Resources organized on a collaboratively created pathfinder (in your school, this might be a wiki or other Web page, a LibGuide, or a Livebinder)
Connection to A3.3 ASSURE Lesson Plan – as you plan your WebQuest, think about mini- lessons you could co-teach in order to increase students’ success in the WebQuest.

27. Review the A.3.1 WebQuest Rubric
Collaboration (Timely Beginning)
Communication Wiki Page (Negotiation and Collaboration)
WebQuest: Introduction
WebQuest: Task
Process: Resources – Use of the Web

28. Review the A.3.1 WebQuest Rubric
WebQuest: Process
WebQuest: Evaluation
WebQuest: Conclusion
WebQuest: Teacher Page
Conventions: Spelling, Grammar, Copyright-free and Cited Images

29. Which of the roles of the school librarian can be addressed through online learning activities such as a WebQuest?
Leader
Instructional Partner
Information Specialist
Teacher
Program Administrator

30. Copyright-free image from Morguefile.com

31. Works Cited “A+. ” Microsoft Clipart. 29 Feb. 2012. From File
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