This is a whole new world to me. I am not familiar at all with anything tech related, and honestly, trying to understand some of what I am reading is difficult for me to completely understand. From what I can gather Web Quest is a faster, more accurate way of search for specific topics. It can help teachers refine their assignments to students by broading the search capabilites. For example, prior students could only search basic search terms, like a specific country, now however, they can search critieria to make the search more interesting. The example given in the reading, from Five Rules for Writing a Great WebQuest, is that students studying Canada could search for vacation destinations within specific parameters for a family of four that all have varied interest with a budget. Students can above and beyond what they could ordiarily research.
Two sites recommended by the article are AltaVista Google and Northern Light.
The second article, The Student WebQuest, informs the reader that teachers are now creating WebQuest data bases, in addition schools also have WebQuest collections. When teachers begin to create a lesson plan they must thnk about their students interest and prior experiences. The well-designed WebQuest has taken all the factors into consideration and added the pertinent resources.
Bernie Dodge and Tom March have sites that direct a person to high quality WebQuest resources, also Kathy Schrocks has a page that has a slideshow that helps teachers design their own WebQuest page
The possibilites it seems are endless. I need to learn more about WebQuest, as I stated initially, I am unfamiliar with all the it entails, but from these two articles I can see it will be a valuable tool to be used in the classroom.
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