Free Online Professional Development Course for Educators

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Find out how you can engage your students in experiential (hands on) learning activities that promote social learning skills via teamwork, higher order critical thinking via inquiry and problem-based learning, and technology through the use of the Internet. Motivate your students to become lifelong learners by using or creating WebQuests.

Learn how to use and create WebQuests in a few easy steps at Integrating Technology, a non-profit international organization that provides free professional development workshops for teachers on how to integrate technology into the curriculum. The organization uses Moodle course management system for all its free online workshops.

Click to enroll now: https://integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=283

Professor Bernie Dodge, the father of Webquests, defines them as "inquiry-oriented activities in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet".

The WebQuest is divided into 7 sections. I provided examples from The Perfect Society.
* Introduction
* Task
* Process
* Resources
* Evaluation
* Conclusion
* Teacher Page

Students generally work in teams. Each student has a role, or a specific area to research. WebQuests often assign students to play real-life situations of professional researchers or historical figures.