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WebQuest Connections

Today’s educators are being asked to incorporate critical thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and technology in teaching. WebQuests were designed to bring the most effective instructional practices together in a student-led, teacher-driven activity. The WebQuest model addresses a wide range of topics, goals, environments and learners; as well as technology applications.

Friday, June 30, 2006

QuestGarden by Bernie Dodge

Dr. Bernie Dodge
WebQuest creator, Bernie Dodge, has built QuestGarden for simple publishing. Here's his description from his blog:

QuestGarden is an online authoring tool, community and hosting service that is designed to make it easier and quicker to create a high quality WebQuest. No knowledge of web editing or uploading is required. Prompts, guides and examples are provided for each step of the process. Images, worksheets and other documents can easily be attached or embedded in the WebQuest, and users have complete control over the appearance of the final lesson.

QuestGarden is modeled after a community garden with all the resources needed to bring great WebQuests to life. Users are encouraged to comment on each others' work, to share links and images, and to build new WebQuests on existing ones. Rather than starting from scratch, users can bring a WebQuest written by another member of the community into their workspace, modify the content or appearance to suit their needs, and use it with their own students. Attribution to the first author is maintained, and authors are notified when another member of the community makes an improved or modified version of their work.

Powerpoint slides and a webcast about QuestGarden can be seen from the blog post.

I noticed that users can try QuestGarden for free until September 2006, and after that it will cost about $20/year for a subscription.

posted by Sandy Schaufelberger @ 12:13 PM 

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is a shame that Questgarden will not be free after Sept. I used it to create my WebQuest, and thought it was an excellent tool. It made creating the WebQuest fun and easy.
It may be worth the $20 though.

-Michael Klein

11:31 PM  

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