EDU221WebQuestExpectations

We will work on WebQuests all semester. You will learn what they are, how and why they are effective, and how to make your own. In the end, you will create your own WebQuest based on your Unit that you are designing in Dr. Grace's class.

=Module 1= Introduction to the concept of WebQuest Good examples of the components of a WebQuest Turning your Stage 2 into a WebQuest task Thinking about the role, the performance task, and the audience / presentation setting Improving your rubrics--both content and layout (and why time limits are good for presentations) Website design using html Using Nvu Gathering graphics and resources [|Publishing to the Web using your public.www folder on your H: drive] Backing up your WebQuest (and all your other data, too) Figuring out the URL of your UMF website and your WebQuest [|Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about your H: drive, the public.www folder and other UMF server related issues] Making changes to the Internet version of your WebQuest

=Module 2= Troubleshooting your UMF website and URL Making the most of your resources Creating the student sample Turning the teaching and learning sequence into your WebQuest process Compressing your WebQuest folder into a zip file

Near the end of module 2 (but before your final portfolio is due to Dr. Grace), you will be asked to upload a self-evaluation and your WebQuest zip file to TK20 for a final grade. Below is the self-evaluation that you need to complete. Be sure to rename the file by adding your first name before uploading it to TK20. (e.g., MahildabobWebQuestSelfEvaluation.doc)

Remember that when you put something on the web, anyone in the world can see it. Check out this email from a teacher in Cincinnati to Dean Yardley at UMF about Audra's WebQuest from spring 2007:

Subject: FW: excellent student project Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:46:06 -0500 From: "Katherine Yardley" To: Audra W.

Hi Audra, I wanted to share this complimentary e-mail with you. Congratulations on a job well-done!

Best wishes,

Kathy Katherine W. Yardley, Dean College of Education, Health and Rehabilitation University of Maine at Farmington 186 High Street Farmington, Maine 04938

-Original Message- From: Sheryl Melvin Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:37 PM To: kyardley Subject: excellent student project

Dear Dean Yardley:

I teach 6th graders in the suburbs of Cincinnati. Not wishing to re-invent the wheel, I did a web search for a quality project for my students to use in conjunction with Wilson Rawls' novel, Where the Red Fern Grows. I came across a webquest designed by Audra W., apparently a student at your school.

I was hoping you could pass along my gratitude to her. Her work is professional and usable. I particularly appreciate the "credits" section, often absent in online projects.

[|http://students.umf.maine.edu/~whitneal/greatdepressionwebquest/index.html]

Sincerely, Sheryl Melvin Mariemont Elementary School 6750 Wooster Pike Cincinnati, Ohio 45227