Tilly HarrisonUniversity of Warwick

4th February 2011

• Basics of Designing a WebQuest (12.05 - 12.30)

• Brainstorming in groups (12.30 – 12.45)• Choosing a Template and Links (12.45 –

12.55)• Break (10 mins)• Working on your WebQuest (1.05 – 1.45) • Feedback / Discussion (1.45 – 1.55)

• Start with your students – what do they need?• Choose a topic• Think about the end product - what will be the

transformation(s)?• Chunk the topic• Find the relevant resources• Choose the tasks, scaffold the learning• Include real world interaction?• Choose a template for the WebQuest pages• Make sure you write a fun and motivating

introduction!• Think about evaluation – how will you assess or wrap

up the WebQuest?

1. Models real life behaviour

2. Requires higher level thinking skills

3. Uses the Internet well

4. Is not a report or a simple procedure

5. Is not simply ‘web experiences’

6. Is motivating and useful!

•Alternative History•Analysing for Bias•Behind the Book•Beyond the Book•Commemorative•Comparative Judgement•Compilation• Concept Clarification•Persuasion•Concrete Design•Exhibit•Generic•Genre Analysis•Historical Story

•In the Style of….•Meeting of Minds•On Trial•Parallel Diaries•Persuasive Message•Policy Briefing•Recommendation•Simulated Diary•Teaching to Learn •Time Capsule•Travel Account•Travel Plan

• Reception Scaffoldingto help the students get started

• Transformation Scaffolding to help the students transform the

information• Production Scaffolding

to help the students show what they have gained

Go back to your school groups from Tuesday.

Together think of the kinds of topics and tasks that are motivating at that level.

Share out the ideas so that two pairs work on something different.

Go to the WebQuest Garden page One of the pair should log in and make

sure you add the code UK112W Work through the suggested stages. Give feedback to your school’s other pair.

How easy did you find it to adapt the WebQuest model for ELT?

Would they work in your context? Why? Why not?

Advantages? Limitations?