FOCUS: Five Rules for Writing a Great WebQuest

The acronym of FOCUS directly and cohesively sums up the key components of a great webquest. I will most like use this acronym when thinking about and developing webquest for future classes and groups of students. I was shocked but not totally surprised at the amount of web pages that are currently on the web, 550 billion! I was more intrigued that general search engines only tap into the top 1 billion web pages. I need to deepen my own unfolding of the internet and hope that in my development of future web quest that I will be able to find links that accesses the deeper realms of the internet. I will definitely be bookmarking sites like Thomas. Webquest are a wonderful way to help students weed through the garbage of the internet to focus on relevant and useful information that supports lessons and learning. I feel that it is also equally important to be as organized as you can be. The more organized you are the more prepared and the larger impact you will have on your students. I really liked the ideas around organizing your resources and how to adapt your lesson to utilize the materials that you have available. Great task that encourage critical thinking will be my challenge. I can see how a teacher can develop poor webquest that turn into simple find the information and repeat it in a new form. Getting children to think critically about information will definitely be the key to making webquest successful.