Webquests Workshop – The Program

Below you find the program for our workshop:

 

The Webquest Method

A WebQuest is an activity in which students collect, process and present information, and most of the information comes from the World Wide Web. It was invented by Bernie Dodge (San Diego State University) in 1995.

 

Protected: Ernst von Glasersfeld – Interview

Interview with Ernst von Glasersfeld (videos, 4 minutes, in German), recorded in 2001.

 

Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. He found that over 95% of the test questions students get require them to think only at the lowest possible level…

 

Creating a Webquest Is Easier than You Think!

In this article Linda Starr tells us what webquests are, why they are so popular and how we can use – and create – webquests in our own classrooms.

 

Example 1: Should smoking be banned in public places?

Austria is still a country where smoking in public places is widely tolerated. Our government seems to be unwilling to pass a law that forbids smoking in bars and restaurants etc. Therefore even nowadays a topic like this is pretty popular here…

This webquest serves as a very good model that we can use for training purposes. There are many ways of introducing a topic like “smoking”

 

Example 2: Tourism in Tyrol

The tourist industry has long been a major source of income for the province of Tyrol and it affects all inhabitants here – economically, socially, environmentally and culturally. This webquest helps us to look at this issue from various viewpoints.

[ Click on this link to open the Word document:  Tourism in Tirol]

 

Webquest Evaluation

Two forms: one to evualate your students’ work, and one to evaluate a webquest

• Student evaluation form: webquest evaluation (word document, draft)
• Tom March’s webquest evaluation form: http://bestwebquests.com/bwq/matrix.asp