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WebQuest as a Teaching StrategyWebQuests are nothing more than a good lesson strategy that not only makes best use of what computer technology has to offer us, but also emphasizes cooperative learning and research skills. Look at this presentation, use the worksheets to practice making your own WebQuest. This activity is a guaranteed success with your students. It also is a great way of organizing and making best use of all the resources you learn about here in our program. 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. Their are several great tutorials you can take on line made just for teachers... see one of them: http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html Tips on Searching http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/stepzero.html About Search Engines http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/liberty/workshop/searching.html And How To Cite What You Find: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm Searching the Web Activity:In order to build a lesson that uses well the resources of the web, and also save a lot of your planning time, there are some good search strategies you can use to give you better results. This will be immensely helpful in building the Resources section of your WebQuest as well. These strategies will allow you to either narrow or broaden your search, depending on what you're looking for. To practice these, you will use Bernie Dodge's Tips for Better Searching and compare what kinds of results you get using Altavista. You will have 20 minutes for this activity. After you've finished this online worksheet, try other search engines and compare their results. You will work in 3 groups:
The challenge: find the best web-based investigations on Climate and Weather. You will have 20 minutes to do the search using your assigned engine. We will compare the results and discuss them at the end of the session! Good hunting!
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