Intro to WebQuest methodology. See more in OpenVRG http://platea.pntic.mec.es/vgonzale/

1. WebMagic with WebQuest Alicia García de la Santa & Víctor R. González agarc123 @alerce.pntic.mec.es [email_address] CFIE Valladolid II – http://cfievalladolid2.net (Teacher Training and Educational Innovation Centre in Valladolid, Spain, from the Junta de Castilla y León) Socrates Comenius 2.1 “Think, Construct & Communicate” http://cfievalladolid2.net/thinkweb 20th Conference ESP Association with COMP@CT & ECOLE

10. WebQuest blocks ( sections ) What does a WebQuest activity look like? Let’s look at an example ... Web resources Conclusion Evaluation Proccess Task Introduction Teacher’s page

11. In order to make the learning easier for the student , the conexions between inputs, transformations and outputs should be helped or supported by the educator with the so-called cognitive scaffolds of three types: 1) Reception 2) Transformation 3) Production Scaffolding

12. The WebQuest way vs. the traditional way

13. The Web allows us to put students in touch with resources that they might not have seen before. If learners are not fully prepared to extract information from the Web, then everything else in a lesson will be based on shaky ground. A reception scaffold provides guidance in learning from a given resource and retaining what was learned . Reception scaffolds

14. WebQuests ask learners to transform what they read into some new form . They might benefit by explicit help on such processes as comparing and contrasting, finding patterns among a number of similar objects of study, brainstorming, inductive reasoning, and decision making . The goal of these transformation scaffolds consists of going beyond the information structure , while the reception ones help to perceive the structure that already lies in the information. Transformation scaffolds

15. WebQuests commonly require students to create things they have never created before . The production aspects of the task can be scaffolded by providing students with templates, prompted writing guides, and multimedia elements and structures. By doing part of the work for students, we allow them to go beyond what they would be able to do alone . Over time, we hope, they internalize the structures we provide until they can work autonomously. Production scaffolds

16. And now... Let’s get to work A WebQuest about WebQuests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestwebquest-ms.html

17. Where can I find info about WebQuests? The WebQuest “Home” http://webquest.sdsu.edu The WebQuest “2nd home” http://www.ozline.com/learning

18. Where can I find more info about WebQuests? The WebQuest “our home” http://cfievalladolid2.net/ thinkweb And a LanguageQuest : http://www.kennisnet.nl/thema/talenquest

19. WebQuest Constructivistic approach Constructivistic approach Project based learning Scaffolding the process Collaborative learning Good web resources Active learning: transformations OK. So, which are the WebMagic potion ingredients? Active learning: transformations And the name of the potion is: Collaborative learning Project based learning Good web resources Scaffolding the process +