Initially I never had any idea about what a webquest was and how it looked like. However after reading in this CCTI course and through the Internet exploration, I found out that a web quest has 6 core elements of which if well followed, the learner and the reader can get to comprehend the learned content and be able to get a permanent change in his or her way of understanding and articulating issues.
Such steps include: the introduction which must be captivating to the learners, the task, and the the process/ procedure to be followed. In some cases, the process is usually put in the teacher/ instructor's page in case one is using www.zunal.com to prepare the webquest. The resources form part of the webquest but some times they may either be extracted from the Internet or from the books that were consulted in the process of the webquest formation.
The evaluation follows and it is advisable to develop a rubric in order to guide the learneroabout what is expected from him or her. then the conclusion sums it up.
I used http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=325229 to prepare one webquest and I found out that several 21st Century skills are embedded in the process of creating a webquest. They included all the items of the research methodology right from the constuctivism, up to the creative higher order thinking skills. These would come in in the part of collaboration and communication,as the learners use computers and the Internet to embrace technology in their learning.
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