Completing Your WebQuest Template

Source: http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/wqdmain.htm

Introduction | The Task | Resources | The Process | Learning Advice | Conclusion

Introduction

You have learned what WebQuests are and may have even completed some WebQuests. You have an idea for a WebQuest and are ready to write a student WebQuest that can be shared with other educators. If you have questions about how to prepare and share a WebQuest, you are at the appropriate place.

The Task

Describe crisply and clearly what the end result of the learners' activities will be. Your task, writing a WebQuest using this template might be sequenced as:

• Write a WebQuest using the WebQuest Template.
• Evaluate appearance and accuracy of WebQuest using Netscape to preview your WebQuest.
• Publish a Trial WebQuest on the Macomb County WWW server.
• Evaluate WebQuest with students and revise as necessary.
• Publish Evaluated WebQuest on Macomb County WWW server
• Repeat procedure.

Resources

Use this space to point out places on the internet (or physical resources in the classroom) that will be available for the learners to use to accomplish the task. Embedding the links within a description of the resource will also assist your learners to know in advance what they're clicking on.

• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?
• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?
• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?
• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?
• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?
• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?
• Link Title Here do you want to describe it?

The Process

1. Click here Web Quest Template to obtain the Word Processing Template, and save as a source document on your hard drive.
2. open the Template from your computer's hard drive with a simple text editor: Windows Notepad and for Macintosh Teachtext or Simple Text or open it in a Web Publishing Program such as MicroSoft FrontPage or Adobe PageMill.
3. Enter your ideas for your WebQuest on the Template.
   • If you need more explanation for the information you are asked to enter or ideas for how to enter information, use the Learning Advice Document
   • Read the Learning Advice Doument in the Netscape window.
   • Return to text processor document and continue.
   • You can print the document if you desire to have a hard copy of the document.
   • If more help is necessary send an Email WebQuest Help with your request.
4. Save WebQuest with appropriate title and three (3) letter HTML extension (htm).
5. View the document in Netscape by using the FILE/Open File Command from Netscape.
6. Evaluate the appearance and accuracy of the WebQuest.
7. Publish a Trial WebQuest on MISD web server by:

   e-mailing the doucment to: WebQuest Publishing.

Learning Advice

It is anticipated you will find an approach to writing WebQuests that will use your own strenghts and probably change over time. Good learning advice is probably JUST DO WEBQUESTS. Probably the best learning advice is teach your students to do WebQuests.

Conclusion

This page written by WebQuest Team.
Last updated:Month, day, 19xx

This page was adapted from Bernie Dodge 's WebQuest_Template1.html by Tom March