Vic's Web Quests for Teachers

What is a WebQuest?

A WebQuest is an inquiry-based lesson format that uses the world wide web as a vast resource. A Web Quest Provides Opportunities for Learners to:

Acquire information from a variety of diverse sources and perspectives

Construct Knowledge to develop inquiry skills

Demonstrate understanding of concepts and ideas

The webquest model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995

GENERAL RESOURCES FOR WEB QUESTS

Here are some sites to help build understanding about web quests:

General Web Quest Resources:

Search for Classroom Content with Google:

TIP: You can use the address bar to type in the URL (web address)
of a site then click the GO button to get there fast.

GIVE THE AUTHOR CREDIT:

When using content from online sources, it is important to credit the author. In fact, when using the web, we should credit the author of the world wide web by explaining to students about Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee was a programmer who created the www or world wide web protocols which control the transmission of internet web pages. Every Web page in the world is referenced by an a number, the world wide web protocol allows you to type in a human language web address www.yahoo.com to visit a specific place on the web.

68.142.226.37 is the numeric IP address for www.yahoo.com and yet because of Tim Berners-Lee the web is accessible to millions because a database automatically takes our human language web address and references the real number address in milliseconds and then displays the page we requested. Tim developed the URL or Universal Resource Locator that we now refer to as a web address. He also invented the HTTP or hyper text transmission protocol (a set of rules for web pages to communicate).

Biography of Tim Berners-Lee Internet Pioneers (Tim Berners-Lee) Another biography

FACT: Did you know it does NOT violate copyright law for you to LINK to a web site? Who says? Tim Berners-Lee the author of the world wide web, the creator of hyperlinks and web pages that's who.

Read the web article: LINKS and LAW by Tim Berners-Lee

Read an overview of Tim's Book: Weaving the Web

	WEBQUESTS FOR TEACHERS A web quest uses the Internet for inquiry-based learning in the classroom