Webquest

One of our class assignments was to create a webquest. I had heard about webquest, but never completed one. This was a good exercise. It's design is much like any other class activity, however, most all of the work is accomplished through the internet.

I can see the benefit in students completing a webquest. A well designed webquest provides detailed instructions for students to follow. It is more than simply using the web for general research. Requiring the students to make an analysis or solve a problem at the end of the quest allows them to actually USE the information they gathered. Not simply right it down and hand it in!

I designed the webquest in Microsoft Word. Once I had all the text developed, I formated the page, then seperated the sections into individual pages. I made a mistake here. I created a line of hyperlinks for each section across the top of each page. I linked to the .docx files. Wrong!
I realized this when I saved each file as webpage then tested the hyperlinks. So I edited all the links, one document at a time, to link to the appropriate webpage. I also found out that it's hard to keep proper formatting of picture placement and drawn lines. Surely there is an easier way to do this!

But... this is how we learn, right? Trial...and error.