WebQuests are Internet-based individual or small-group activities that encourage students to pursue a topic independently.  However, they provide structure and scaffolding to help students through the learning experience.  This assignment requires you to act as a teacher in constructing a learning experience for your students.  It also requires you to search the Web for suitable information resources, and to construct a viable instructional design.
 

Task

An excellent guide for creating WebQuests can be found here.  Other templates and examples can be found by searching for "WebQuests" or "Web Quests" through Google or any other good search engine.

Choose an instructional objective that will be useful to you in your professional life.  Design a simple WebQuest using Microsoft Word or another word processor that allows you to include live links.

Components

• Instructional objective and target audience
• Introduction
• Task
• Resources: 3 or more sites that students will visit with an explicit purpose
• Learning advice
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Evidence of attention to at least one pedagogical theme

Format

• Word document (preferred) or other word processor document submitted via email or in your dropbox; make sure that links are clickable
• 1 hard copy
• Be prepared to share your WebQuest in class.