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quests on the web; Or, WebQuests:
Quests on the web or what are more commonly called "WebQuests" are a digital and exciting way for twenty-first century teachers to present a lesson or a unit to their twenty-first century students. I was introduced to WebQuests in EDUC331 - Technology and Assessment, a course taught by Dr. James Folkestad, Associate Professor in the School of Education, at Colorado State University. Teacher candidates were assigned the task of creating a WebQuest for their content area. The model Folkestad used in his technology course was based on a model designed by Bernie Dodge in the mid-1990s:
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March,the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.
Since those beginning days, tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland (http://webquest.org).
Folkestad provides explicit instructions to design a WebQuest using Google Sites (Click here to see the EDUC311 WebQuest wiki page). The below WebQuest, titled A Quest for American Identity, takes students back in time to nineteenth century America to explore literature of influential authors. Simply click on the image of the Webquest's title page below to examine the "Student Pages" and the "Teacher Pages" of the WebQuest designed for eleventh through twelfth grade English. However, the WebQuest could be modified for any grade level from kindergarten through post-secondary:
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