Your directions to complete this task are below. Follow them to complete your task. It's also in your interests to take a peek at the Evaluation page before you get started and see how you will be assessed/scored. Oh yeah, did I mention that you only have 20 minutes to complete everything here? There's NO WAY you can do everything here in that time unless you work smarter, not harder. Good luck!
Decide on a team name
Assign Roles to your team members.
The Efficiency Expert: You value time a great deal. You believe that too much time is wasted in today's classrooms on unfocused activity and learners not knowing what they should be doing at a given moment. To you, a good WebQuest is one that delivers the most learning bang for the buck.
The Altitudinist: Higher level thinking is everything to you. There's too much emphasis on factual recall in schools today. The only justification for bringing technology into schools is if it opens up the possibility that students will have to analyze information, synthesize multiple perspectives, and take a stance on the merits of something.
The Affiliator: To you, the best learning activities are those in which students learn to work together. WebQuests that force collaboration and create a need for discussion and consensus are the best in your view.
The Record-Keeper: The person in this role will be responsible for keeping up with the group's decisions on the division of labor, any issues that arise, and to record the team's answers to questions as you develop them so that they can be entered into the Final Assessment form at the bottom of this page. It will be beneficial for this person to have a laptop.
Click here to take the Webquest comfort level pre-assessment
Use the links on the Resources page to learn all that you can about project/problem-based learning, WebQuests (design, theory, pedagogy), and how these two ideas/constructs can work together in a mutually beneficial way.
The resources are arranged IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. In fact, some of them may be worthless! (It is a contest, after all)
It is your job to determine how to examine them as a team and distill the relevant information.
(Hint: Your rubric in the Evaluation section and the questions in the Final Assessment below will help you decide what is "important")
Create a draft of a WebQuest. It can be on any topic you want. As it is a draft, do not attempt to actually create it online. Rather, discuss with your team and decide on its critical components, what they would look like, and how they would promote problem/project-based learning and high levels of higher order thinking.
Take the final assessment below. If there is an issue viewing it on your screen, click HERE for a direct link to the form.