1. Writing a WebQuest
eMINTS
Module 27

2. Housekeeping
sign in and get handouts, bring up all links in your task bar
Nancy’s
End of the year snack night sign up
you next years schedule in summer… days that are better than others.

3. Team building with a group of 3
Team Survival

4. Essential Question
How can educators compose WebQuests that facilitate inquiry and enable students to use higher-level thinking?

5. Steps to Writing a WebQuest
Choose a Topic and Goal
Select a Task
Create the Website
Develop the Evaluation
Design the Process
Write the Teacher Page
Try It and Revise It

6. Steps to Writing a WebQuest…. TONIGHT
Choose a Topic and Goal
Select a Task
Create the Website

7. Choose a Topic and Goal Expected Outcome
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learners needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking?

8. *Rubric copies??? In links *Go round…
Topic and goal…
*Rubric copies??? In links
*Go round…
Use these sites… 1st 3 links on
Dodge, B. (1999). Selecting a WebQuest Project.
Dodge, B. (1999). Step Zero: What to Do Before Searching.
Dodge, B. (2005). Four NETS for Better Searching.

9. To consider as you plan..
Can students assume different roles or perspectives of this topic?
Is the ide open ended that could be appraoached from different perspectives or is it skill based with steps?
How would this be used in the workplace as a precursor to adult work skills?
Could this topic build to a larger task?
Will there be enough resources?

10. Reflection & Putting into Practice
What did you see or notice to share with us all?

11. Step 2: Select a Task Expected Outcome
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learner needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving , decision-making, and critical-thinking?

12. Resources Participant Guide Section: Step 2: Select a Task
Links: 2 links under “select a task”
Bernie Dodge’s WebQuest Design Patterns webpage
Dodge, B. WebQuest Design Patterns.
eMINTS National Center.
The WebQuest Task: Pushing for the Upper Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

13. Reflection & Putting into Practice
What did you see or notice to share with us all?

14. Step 3: Create the Website
Expected Outcomes
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learner needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking?

15. Work on your website.

16. Reflection & Putting Into Practice
WebQuest Reflective Journal

17. Step 4: Develop the Evaluation
Expected Outcomes
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learner needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving, decision-making and critical-thinking?

18. Resources Participant Guide Section: Step 4: Develop the Evaluation
Might try:

19. Reflection & Putting Into Practice
WebQuest Reflective Journal

20. Step 5: Design the Process
Expected Outcomes
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learner needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking?

21. Resources Participant Guide Section:
Step 5: Designing the WebQuest Process
Designing the WebQuest Process Handout
eMINTS WebQuest Rubric/Scoring Guide

22. Reflection & Putting Into Practice
Thoughts on evaluation pages… share

23. Step 6: Write the Teacher Page
Expected Outcomes
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learner needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking?

24. Resources Participant Guide Section: Step 6: Write the Teacher Page
What should you have on this page? Brainstorm ideas and share in 5 minutes
NET-S standards for studetns and teachers

25. Reflection & Putting Into Practice
WebQuest Reflective Journal

26. Step 7: Try It and Revise It
Expected Outcomes
How are standards-based WebQuests created to meet diverse learner needs and engage students in learning through authentic problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking?

27. Resources
Participant Guide Section:
Step 7: Try It and Revise It

28. Reflection & Putting Into Practice
WebQuest Reflective Journal

29. Closing
Go Around: Share your WebQuest work from today.