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Webquests - how to upload/share them.
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cindyfreksen
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Webquests - how to upload/share them.
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Hey all!
As a relatively new user I have a question as to how you can share webquests. Looking under the category on this site I cannot see any �real � webquests using the definition from Burnie Dodge (see http://webquest.org/).
I have written a few quests that I would like to share with the community here - I have been an avid user of the contributions on this sight and thank all for saving me a lot of time - there always seems to be a worksheet when you need one :-) and therefore would like to share more of my work and at the same time get more resources available for me to borrow.
Here is a link to one of my quests - you can find links to the others on the about page.
http://workinengland.wordpress.com/
I haven �t checked all of the links in the quests, but a comment on the about page will spur me into action and correct the error :-)
Hope that there are other questers out there who want to share and that my contribution will inspire others to use webquests.
Good weekend
Cindy
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2 Dec 2011
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ueslteacher
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I shared one webquest as a worksheet, and I �ve seen other users do that as well. You could also upload instructions as teacher �s notes ws and include the link to the actual webquest. Sophia
Edit: I�ve just checked some of the webquests available here and I�m just curious why would you discard them as "real" webquests? I�ve been researching the topic and can�t see what you mean.
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2 Dec 2011
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cindyfreksen
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I wouldn �t say that I was an expert! I did however write my bachelor paper about them so I have read a lot!
I have to confess that I haven �t looked at them all, and I think that yours has potential - I liked the idea a lot, but to be a �proper � webquest IT should be a must not just a handy part! If students had to produce a blog about the visit or an online newspaper or some thing like that.
I have also made a webquest about making a webquest...
http://webquestingquest.wordpress.com/
happy questing
Cindy
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2 Dec 2011
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ueslteacher
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Thanks for your tips, Cindy. You see, where I come from, students aren �t that knowledgeable about producing web pages, but they are very much into social networks. I �ve been exploring IT as a tool for my English lessons but the problem is we don �t have fully equipped language labs at school and it �s next to impossible to book the only computer room available. The multimedia clssroom has only one computer and a smartboard. Another thing: my students are not as autonomous, so if I give them the webquest as homework, most of them will skip it and avoid doing the task (they �d rather get a negative mark, than spend hours doing something meaningful) I �ve been thinking about starting a blog for quite a while, but it seems to be quite time consuming and I haven �t decided on the platform yet. What would you recommend? (I have to mention though, it has to be a free service) Sophia |
3 Dec 2011
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