Agenda
WebQuests (and other inquiry-based
models)
Valenza/Wagman 2000
Session 1:
- Introductions and
perspectives
- Discussion of
participants' goals
- Why
inquiry-based/information problem solving? (PowerPoint)
- Brainstorming
questions and student tasks
- WebQuest Overview:
What is a WebQuest? Why should I create one?
- American
Memory/NARA/Module Maker
- WebQuest About
WebQuests (Experience a WebQuest from the student's
perspective while getting a feel for the variety of
available options)
- Matrix of Examples
- WebQuest
"Taskonomy" (The variety of learning activities
from which to choose)
Session 2: Introduction to Web page
development and beginning to develop the unit
- Downloading templates for
building student activities
- Mike's introduction to Front
Page
- Resources for Web development
- Sketching out the frame of a
lesson
- Sources of rubrics and
scaffolds
Session 3: Searching overview
- Evaluating Websites for
student use
- Review of effective searching
strategies
- How much searching should
students do?
- Gateway sites?
- Links to specific pages?
- When to encourage searching,
when to select resources
Session 4: Guided invention
Participants will spend most of
this session working in teams with help from facilitators
Session 5: Guided invention
- Continued work on lesson
drafts
- Sharing and evaluating our
work
- Where do we go from here?
Finishing and uploading?