Webquest Background

• Bernie Dodge is a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. His Webquest Page provides excellent resources to learn about webquests. Look especially at the many EXAMPLES he gives and at the TRAINING MATERIALS.
• Tom March is also a developer of webquests. His Webquests for Learning page provides answers to the questions Why WebQuests? and What do WebQuests Look Like? and guidance for Designing Your Own WebQuests and Putting Your WebQuest Online
• Tom March and others are also responsible for the development of the site Filamentality, which, among other things, allows teachers to develop and publish their own web pages, including webquests.
• Bernie Dodge's thinking about webquests has evolved over the last four years.  In the early article, WebQuest, Prof. Dodge distinguished between short term and long term WebQuests. He then provides six critical attributes for WebQuests, introduction that sets the stage, a task that is doable and interesting, a set of information sources needed to complete the task, a description of the process the learners should go through in accomplishing the task, some guidance on how to organize the information acquired, and a conclusion. 
• Later Prof. Dodge substituted the idea of Evaluation for Guidance and began thinking about rubric-based evaluation. Two of his more recent articles are given below.
  • The article on Building Blocks of a WebQuest is excellent, especially since it provides paradigm examples of webquests for each of the six components of a web quest.
  • A Draft Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests will also give you specific guidance for evaluating webquests by others or ones you have created.
     
• The following websites with webquests have been created by university students

The WebQuest Page by Bernie Dodge. This site offers background information, reading and training materials and a collection of examples of WebQuests http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html WebQuests for Learning by Tom March. This site offers a good introduction to some of the key ideas behind WebQuests and how they are able to support student learning. http://ozline.com/learning/   Arizona State University    Bridgewater State College   New Mexico State University   University of Nevada, LV.