Introduction
You set out, with the best of intentions, with your Year 9 class to
go to the computers in the school that have live access to the World Wide Web. You
and your class have done the background work so, everyone knows what they are going to do
- "look for Information on ..". Within 20 minutes, some are so frustrated
with searching they have given up and are into off-task activities. Experienced
searchers have already found some good sites and they also move into off-task
activities. Another group are working diligently. Sometimes they are experience the
rush of success and at other times they experience frustration.
Searching for information requires considerable skill to be
effective and efficient. We provide scaffolded activities for students to work with
when they are using paper-based resources. Why not use the same type of approach to gather
meaningful, relevant information from the Web? Tom March and Professor Bernie Dodge
have called these activities WebQuests.
Task
Your tasks are:
- find out what WebQuests are
- how Web Quests are useful as a teaching and
learning strategy
- how to go about creating a Web Quest
Process
By using the web pages you will gather information about WebQuests and produce a collated
document of your experiences that you can print out and take away with you.
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Evaluation 
I would like your feedback about the
experience that you have had. It is not my intent to evaluate you learning as a
result of this workshop. But, as a result of your learnig expereince you will have
ideas that would be useful to me about the structure of the process that you have been
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