What?
It is a little harder for me to come up with a bunch of new things that I have learned this week, but I have realized some things about webquests as we have been working on them. For example, I came to realize that when you come up with a webquest it is a good idea to really look at every step and exactly what you want the outcome of the webquest to be. It is also important to find out if the information you want your students to find is out there before designing a webquest around it.
So What?
The "so what?" that I draw from this is that it probably works better to design a webquest around what you would like the students to accomplish and not the other way around. This means that you should not plan something just so it fits in well to the webquest format but rather you should adjust the webquest in a way that the benefits for the students are as high as you can get them.
Now What?
Now, or better said, in the very near future I will look at the things I would like my students to know. (and not just core curriculum items but other desirable skills and qualities as well.) And design my webquests so that they make the learning process fun and out of the ordinary. I am coming to believe more and more that it is crucial to teach using a variety of activities and teaching methods, for various reasons. The webquest is just another way I can help students learn in a way that is more hands on and hopefully fun than simple lecturing and for that I am glad to be learning about them.
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