Carlynn and I had so much fun learning to use Webquest and also stretching our imaginations to create a fun, interactive, and educational Webquest Project for our students:)
In thinking of ideas for the theme of our project, we came across Carlynn's copy of Kid's World Almanac that had tons of exciting information available for children. After flipping through the pages, one section caught our attention - planets! And one of the greatest news in the planet section was the fact that since last year, Pluto is not an official planet!
We decided to choose Planets as our theme in order to guide our students in researching and gaining more detailed information about the planets, especially with the still not widely known recent updates of Pluto's ellimination from the planet group.
In following the detailed instructions and in researching for the answers to solve this Webquest, students will enhance their learning in aspects of gathering, analyzing, and presenting information using technology as their main source of the project.
I think the most important lesson I learned from this activity was in creating the Webquest to be an informative yet challenging learning tool for the students. Creating a Webquest just to get your students on a computer is what I would consider as a "time waste" for both the teacher and the students, therefore through this experience, I really learned the importance of hard work in creating create a fun, interesting, exciting, informative, yet challenging Webquest for my students.
I liked using the Webquest tool because it was very simply laid out for teachers to use, but on the other hand, I found it to be quite confusing in trying to embellish the layout of the Webpage it self. I sorta wished it had been more like the Blogger we use, where we can choose a template design for the Webpage and not have to stick to the basics.
The next time I create a Webquest, I think I would do a more thorough research on the topic of my Webquest to really challenge the thinking skills of my students; a Webquest something more on the lines of the DaVinci code Webquest, where students are really pushed to use the full extent of their knowledge and imagination.
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