Week of January 22

The article about webquests was very informative. I like the idea of getting students more involved in their education. Some positive benefits to students from completing webquests are:

• knowledge acquisition & integration
• ability to transform knowledge and create a product using that information
• development of higher level thinking skills such as analysis and synthesis
  
• information retention

A webquest usually contains the following elements:

• Introduction
• Task
• Sources of Information
• Process
• Guidance
• Conclusion

As I began the web resources project, I was concerned that I would have trouble locating webquests for the objectives I had chosen. I was pleasantly surprised to find so many sites from which to choose. What started out as a daunting task, actually turned out to be enjoyable and very informative.