Session 3 - In this session, participants will discuss the "essential question" that will guide their work for the remainder of the course. Assessment options to appropriately measure desired outcomes will be planned, and an overall design for the WebQuest will be developed. The groundwork will be prepared to guide research - locating online and other resources students will use in completing the tasks of the WebQuest. During the following weeks, continued support will be available to assist with research and beginning to assemble the building blocks of the WebQuest. Now that you have your topic, what shall the students do to demonstrate they are learning and engaged with the content? A variety of tasks can be found that range from "retelling" what they have learned to creating a new product. Follow the links below for ideas about tasks: Once the task is designed how should we assess it? Most WebQuests use a rubric for assessment purposes. In this session, we'll discuss the rubrics matched to the "facets of understanding" from Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe (1998). Putting the pieces together on the Internet is really the simplest part of the process. Making the web page is a fairly easy, particularly if we use a "template" containing all the basic parts. Below is a link to a refresher about the essential parts of a WebQuest and a link to a template for a WebQuest on a single page. You may download (save) the template page and modify it with the content for your own page. For a quick look at making pages, follow the final link in this section - a connection to workshop materials for "Building a Web Site Cheap and Easy". For the next few weeks, we'll be assembling the resources, typing the parts of the WebQuest, designing the rubrics, and sharing with other participants. Make sure to serve as the critical eyes for at least one other person in the class as work proceeds. Your finished product will be much better if you are checking out the ideas of others and listening to their critiques.
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