WebQuest

Webquest is a new innovative way to engage the students with online learning. It is an online journey you are taking the students on and a new way for the students to view learning. Using a tool they are most comfortable with is like tricking the students into learning. A term I would hear a lot growing up was to trick the students into learning is the only way to get them to learn. This can be the new form of “tricking” the students into learning. Using the Internet and incorporating engaging activities into your lesson plan can get the student to want to learn. The internet has many different avenues the students can be shown to use to improve their school work and can be shown educational areas that have more to offer then just YouTube.  I learned today that you need a lot of links and areas for the students to go to. You should be speaking to a general audience not just a specific class.  Each area should have the appropriate steps to follow for the students, so they are not lost in your webquest. Viewing the different types of webquest that are on the web provides me with a lot of ideas for how I would like to construct my webquest.  I find the most important part of the webquest, or component of the webquest, is the more links you provide the longer the students will be engaged.  My fear is that the school is work in will not have enough computers in the classroom, if they have any, to utilize webquest.