Wonderful Teaching Tools

I have experienced an amazing tool for teaching with technology in a multidimensional level. This semester I was introduced to the WebQuest. A WebQuest is a self contained online lesson. I had the opportunity to create one of my own and it was a truly rewarding experience. I began by using a Google document template. This is basically a blank slate which outlined the necessary components of the WebQuest. It is astonishing to see how much I contributed to the lesson.

You choose a topic and attach links and resources for the students to explore and build an interacting experience. My WebQuest was not only fun to create, but seeing the finished product was such a feeling of accomplishment. I could not help but thinking," I created this, and children will learn from it!" I guess these are also some of my motivations for teaching.

I would highly recommend WebQuests for classroom activities. I would like to forewarn you though; when cutting and pasting from one format to another the results often require a good deal of tweaking. Depending on your desired final format, I would allow plenty of time to reconstruct the appearance of your quest. When published through Google there are many resources available to help in your creative processes. There are several tutorials and help forums.

For more information you can access the WebQuest home page at http://webquest.org/.