Teaching Integrated Language Skills

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A Webquest activity
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1. What is a WEBQUEST?

It is an inquiry-based and internet -mediated activity. This activity is firstly introduced by Bernie Dodge at the San Diego University in 1995. In a webquest activity students are provided with problems to solve and links to web pages where they can read and find answers for the provided problems. At the end of the activities, students are then required to make conclusion addressing the provided problems. The conclusion can be written, in the form of papers, posters, or other form of presentations. 

A Webquest usually has a generic structure. It usually contains:
  • Introduction
    • The introduction is a means of providing the students with background information that is intended to be a springboard for them to begin the process of inquiry.
  • Task 
    • In most cases, a single question is posed that requires students to analyze a vast array of information.
  • Process 
    • In this section, the teacher leads the student through the task. The teacher offers advice on how to manage time, collect data, and provides strategies for working in group situations. 
  • Information/Resources  
    • Students are provided with tools (usually web sites), or leads to tools that can help them complete the task. In order for this to be valuable, a teacher must thoroughly review each source. 
  •  Evaluation
    • The outcome for Web Quests is usually a product, in most cases, in
    • form of a written/oral report or multimedia presentation. 
  • Conclusions
    • Effective Web Quests have a built in mechanism for student reflections. To receive feedback, you can survey your students about their experience, or have the students send you an e-mail sharing their thoughts.
2. So what is it like?

Lets check the following webquests created by people out there. In some free webquest authoring tool providers.
1. Crossing America ( created at ZUNAL.COM)
2. Habitats and their animals (created at ZUNAL.COM)
3. Dinosaurs before dark (created at Questgarden.com)

3. How to create a webquest:

To create a webquest is easy. Just go to the following websites. Choose one which suites you! Once you are there just follow the onscreen instruction to create a new webquest
  1. http://zunal.com/
  2. https://createwebquest.com
  3. http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/swat/
  4. http://webquest.org/

 For webquest, I got a task to make a poster. So, me and my group are choosing a tool namely poster my wall, and this is our poster:


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