| 1)
Visit the links above to learn about WebQuests.
2) To view other WebQuest
resources and databanks of WebQuests, visit this site:
http://www.pampetty.com/webquests/home.htm
- Closely investigating several
completed WebQuests will help provide you with good ideas and help you
to formulate the design for the WebQuest you will make. Pay
particular attention to the use of graphics, how the format of the
webpage aids the reader, the types of higher-order thinking strategies
employed, etc. Bookmark those sites you find most useful to you
in your planning.
3) Develop a
WebQuest that you
can use with your students (science, social studies, etc.). The WebQuest should
focus on
aspects of literacy as they relate to diversity. In other words, you
MUST provide appropriate instruction for students with diverse backgrounds WITHIN this
unit of study. Since ALL content area instruction involves print, your WebQuest
will demonstrate your understanding of how to ENSURE that EVERY student
receives the strategy and skill instruction they need to comprehend the
print materials. This will involve ACTIVE learning strategies for
PRE-reading, DURING reading, and POST-reading along with proper reflection
of the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing,
publishing).
NOTE: You are NOT asked to develop
a "multicultural" webquest. You are asked to provide instruction
through a WebQuest that SUPPORTS diverse learners. See the difference?
Your WebQuest MAY investigate culture or other aspects of diversity, but
that is NOT the focus of this assignment - what you MUST do is support the
literacy learning (reading, writing, listening, speaking, technology,
viewing) of diverse learners.
4) The WebQuest should
be an on-line unit of study that is useful to you, something
you can use in your present or anticipated teaching situation. Our
textbooks (Grant/Sleeter and Gambrell, Morrow, Neuman, and Pressley) will guide you in
your application of theory and ensure that best practice in literacy
instruction is adhered to strictly throughout your WebQuest. Since
literacy development is a life-long endeavor, the audience for your WebQuest
is at your discretion. The only requirement is that the WebQuest is
useful to you in your current or anticipated teaching situation.
5) The WebQuest serves the following purposes:
- Provides a forum in which educators can
demonstrate their understanding of the underlying principles of best
practice in literacy instruction
- Allows educators to have a "real world"
experience in developing materials that are of value for their students
(or future students)
- Provides a databank of electronic
resources for other educators (contribution to the field of study)
6) If you are not
familiar/comfortable with web design, please visit
this page for resources (you will need
either Netscape Composer - free download - or Internet Explorer
FrontPage Express - free download). You may also use any
commercial program for web design purposes (FrontPage, Dreamwater,
PageMaker, etc.).
7) You also have available to
you several templates that are basically "fill-in-the-blank" formats for
you to use to design your WebQuest: (If you are not experienced in web
design, this is for you!)
8) Article:
"Reading,
Technology, and Inquiry-based Learning Through Literature-Rich WebQuests"
that you will WANT to read before attempting to develop a WebQuest.
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/teclehaimanot
http://www.e4b.de/WebQuests/WebQuests.html - another resource you
might find helpful in investigating the format of your WebQuest
http://www.nelliemuller.com/Nellies_English_Projects.htm - mega
resource for content area instruction ideas |
