Webquests

We are learning about Webquests right now. The assignment is for our content groups to create a webquest that centers around one of the core standards or objectives. I'm pretty excited about the webquest my group is doing.

I think webquests are pretty cool but I don't think they are amazing teaching tools. I feel like high school students will think they are pretty boring. Maybe that can be fixed in the design of the webquest, I don't know. Yet. (and I stress yet!) So I think that I will keep some on hand that get me excited for catch-up, or assembly, or snow days. Good assignments that teach something that I can have my classes do while the other classes catch upon missed material.

Maybe I need to give webquests more of a chance. I can see possibilities for higher level thinking, I just don't think most of the webquests I've seen and done do encourage higher level thinking. I think one of the strengths of the idea is in collaboration. It seems to me that you could make group webquests pretty easily, pass along webquests like a relay race or something like that.

I cannot find the video. There doesn't seem to be a Three Steps video on TeacherTube.