Introduction to Webquests on QuestGarden
This blog highlights the best Webquests created using the QuestGarden webquest building environment. If you haven't heard of QuestGarden yet, it's the brainchild of Webquest Guru Bernie Dodge. I could explain QuestGarden, but I'll bet that Bernie can do a better job on his own: QuestGarden is an online authoring tool, community and hosting service that is designed to make it easier and quicker to create a high quality WebQuest. No knowledge of web editing or uploading is required. Prompts, guides and examples are provided for each step of the process. Images, worksheets and other documents can easily be attached or embedded in the WebQuest, and users have complete control over the appearance of the final lesson. QuestGarden is modeled after a community garden with all the resources needed to bring great WebQuests to life. Users are encouraged to comment on each others' work, to share links and images, and to build new WebQuests on existing ones. Rather than starting from scratch, users can bring a WebQuest written by another member of the community into their workspace, modify the content or appearance to suit their needs, and use it with their own students. Attribution to the first author is maintained, and authors are notified when another member of the community makes an improved or modified version of their work. Thanks, Bernie! Here's a link to the QuestGarden site: QuestGarden Each week, I'll select a few "state of the art" Webquests from QuestGarden, discuss them, and post links to them here. I hope that this will help you to discover how to use Webquests in your classroom, and hopefully it will inspire you to create a Webquest of your own! |
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