As you will notice, searching the web is one of the major tasks of putting together a WebQuest. If you don't have good resources, the rest doesn't work well. There are a couple of links that will show you how to focus your searches so you can find what you are looking for faster. This is a practical time saving exercise.

There are several great tutorials you can take on line made just for teachers... see one:

http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html  

Tips on Searching

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/stepzero.html

And How To Cite What You Find:

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm 

Resources

Homework assignment: Go to the following links and search for a WebQuest on a topic you may be teaching either now or in the near future. If you're lucky enough to find one, the challenge for the New Year is to try it out with your students, so you get the feel for how to use a WebQuest in the classroom. Let us know how it went. We'll save time in the next workshop for you.

Also, feel free to send your impressions to cmattos@colband.com.br  . Your experience is what allows us to grow together and build a better workshop and website for you.

Places to look for WebQuests: (taken from Dr. Susan Lowe's WebQuest agenda that we looked at in the link above)

Here is a matrix of WebQuest example that Bernie Dodge has collected, organized by grade level:

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

Here is a set created by a group of teachers last summer:

http://www.tttc.org/
[Click on Summer 2000 Webquests]

Here is a set created by participants in a project in San Diego:

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/
[Click on Featured Webquests]

And here is a set collected by a professor at ASU:

http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/wqmatrix.html