day 4

Locating and evaluating WebQuests.

Since the late 1990s, the use of technology, and in classrooms has expanded by leaps and bounds. Part of the problem has been the lack of teacher training in the use of this new technology. In many instances, teachers taking their classes to the computer lab has been the same as some teachers showing and irrelevant movie in a classroom just to take a break. Teachers giving their students a list of topics, and then asking them to just Google it is nothing more than just wasting time. WebQuests can be used as the environment as it says in the website marmot for problem solving teambuilding and a good use of Internet resources. The preparation and planning is vitally important to the success of a classroom WebQuests.

There are many new and wonderful WebQuests on the Internet. Nowadays, with standards-based testing, WebQuests can help students and teachers cover a particularly hard topic. The aspect of working smarter not harder. Can come in to play when looking at a topic for a WebQuests. This article on locating evaluating WebQuests can be a valuable tool to any teacher looking to use a WebQuests in their classroom.