Enhance Your Teaching
With Webquests
A Presentation by Matthew Durant
in collaboration with the EDCO
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Question/ Discussion
Will developing and using webquests in my classroom increase interest in learning, improve student access to information, and make student learning more active?
Background Information
Practical Strategies
Like many teachers, you might be looking for a better way to integrate technology into your current curriculum. Webquests combine the best teaching practices with the latest technology to create exciting projects that meet and exceed state standards, utilize theories of constructivism, actively engage your students, and provide differentiated learning. Together, we will explore how to develop and effectively use Webquests with your students.
Learn how to use Webquests to enrich and extend your existing curriculum. You'll leave with powerful teaching strategies to help you immediately implement these practical ideas in your own program.
Ten Key Benefits of Attending
1. Learn How to Extend and Enrich Your Existing Curriculum: The strategies taught in this seminar do not require drastic changes in your current program. Rather, your instructional program can be extended and enriched using the outstanding strategies shared in this seminar.
2. Turn Current Educational Research into Practical Classroom Uses: Webquests provide a clear, practical scaffolding to apply the current instructional practices of constructivism, collaborative learning, and critical-thinking to your lessons.
3. Meet the State Standards with your Favorite Lessons: Learn how you can develop a Webquest that takes a project that you currently love to do with your kids, and ensures that it encompasses your curriculum frameworks.
4. Utilize the Internet to Create Interest, Involvement and Authentic Learning: You can find and use the latest online resources to provide your students with quality, current information that meets all their reading levels and learning styles (Multiple Intelligences.)
5. Increase Your Teaching Options: Learn innovative strategies for strengthening students? skills in the key areas of problem solving, reasoning and communication.
6. Provide Your Students With Quick Access to Quality Information: Find great Internet resources through timesaving search techniques. Now, students can spend more time interpreting and analyzing the information.
7. Use Active Learning Strategies to Boost Student Interaction, Interest and Learning: Outstanding strategies, techniques and model lessons that foster highly effective, active, hands-on learning in your classroom.
8. Incorporate Collaborative Learning Strategies Ideally Suited to Learning: You?ll learn cooperative learning strategies and techniques ideally suited for Elementary and Middle Schools.
9. Increase Your Students? Interest and Achievement: Learn how you can innovatively use technology and everyday resources to develop your Webquest for all learning styles.
10. Use Authentic Assessment Tools: Learn how to use rubrics to authentically assess you student's work.
Day 1: Why Webquest?
Develop Your Webquest - A starting point
Backwards Design Your Webquest
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June 26, 2006 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Day 2: You Are the Webmaster!!!
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June 27, 2006 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Day 3: Developing Your Webquest
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June 28, 2006 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Day 4: Engage With Active Learning
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June 29, 2006 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
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Will developing and using webquests in my classroom increase interest in learning, improve student access to information, and make student learning more active?
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