Workshops

iwebquest.com  can help your school effectively integrate technology. 

Like many teachers you might be looking for a better way to integrate technology into your curriculum. While integrating technology you don't have to "reinvent the wheel!"  Have iwebquest.com work with you and your staff.  Together, we can develop and use webquests, treasure hunts, hotlists to combine the best teaching practices with the latest Internet technologies. 

 

Why iwebquest.com?


Teaching Experience
Have you ever been to those workshops or seminars where you leave shaking your head and saying "That could never work in my classroom?"  We are positive that won't happen with iwebquest.com because all the webquests, treasure hunts, hotlists have been developed by actual teachers who have used our webquests in a real classroom.  You'll leave our seminars and workshops saying, "I can't wait to get back to my classroom to try these ideas with my students!!!"
 

Presentation Experience 
You'll love the quality of the presentation you will receive from our seasoned presentation staff/ teaching staff!  iwebquest.com is proud of the fact that we have taught workshops or given presentations to teachers and administrators from over 80 school districts. We are excited that the number of teachers that we have presented to continues to grow,  fast.  


Academic Experience 
The presentation staff at iwebquest.com has a firm belief that when we learn more, the quality of our presentation will get even better. To continue to learn, we have teamed up with programs that are on the cutting edge of technology. Many of our staff are taking graduate level courses (Masters of Education in Instructional Technology) where we work in direct contact with many teachers and professors that are utilizing technology in their classrooms. Also, by partnering up with Project MEET we have worked with many of the nations leading computer specialists. These experiences have allowed us to learn more so that we can give you an even better presentation.

 

Explore several of the workshops offered by the 
Classroom Teachers/ Presenters from iwebquest.com.

Have iwebquest.com's talented staff of Classroom Teachers/ Presenters work with you to customize a workshop that meets your needs to integrate technology into your curriculum.  You can explore several of the workshops and seminars that we offer by looking below.   

We offer a range of opportunities from our half-day Introductory Workshop to our five-day Technology Integration Seminar that are designed to meet your technology integration needs.  Follow the links below to learn more about seveal of our currently offered workshops:

Enhance Your Teaching With Webquests!!! (A five-day Summer Workshop)

How Can I Webquest?  (A One-Day Workshop)

Customize your own Webquest Course 

Contact our event coordinator, workshops@iwebquest.com, to get more information about customizing a workshop, scheduling availability, or pricing.

What is a Webquest? Workshops What in the World is a Webquest?  This award-winning introduction, provides a concise overview of the webquest. Our presentation staff will walk you through the important characteristics of a webquest, demonstrate the effective instructional practices of Constructivism, Cooperative Learning, and scaffolding that webquests are based on, and discuss their own classroom experiences developing and using webquests with students.    A Quest To Find the Greatest Webquest on Earth!   Jump right in and see for yourself how practical and innovative webquests can be.  Join us on this hands-on activity to learn more about webquests, the concepts behind them, and the fun that you and your students can have learning with webquests.  Your staff will have a blast while you working in cooperative groups  to examine several different webquests.  A Variety Of Online Formats (Hotlists, Webhunts, Mediahunts, and Webquests) Gradually work your way up to develop your own webquest with several easy steps.  Begin by viewing great examples of each type of online format.  Then, choose the format that works best for you.  Don't feel like you need to create the world's best webquest this first time around.  Start with a smaller hotlist or webhunt, and then build your way up.  Each small success will spur you on to bigger and better things!   Introduction Workshops Inspirations: Organization for Your Webquest Inspirations, Inspirations, Inspirations!  Do you keep hearing about this wonderful program?  In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to effectively use Inspirations to reorganize one of your own curriculum units into a webquest.   Ask Thought-Provoking Essential Questions  Bring your students past basic fact gathering by asking an essential question that prompts them to solve an authentic problem.  In this seminar,  you will learn how to pose an essential question that inspires your students to reflect and discuss their background knowledge on your topic.  Then, guide your students to analyze and synthesize, and evaluate the information that they gather to solve the authentic problem posed in the essential question.  Curriculum Frameworks and Your Webquest 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.  This hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of  locating appropriate online resources that will help you to meet and exceed all your curricular needs.   Integrate System-Thinking Systems Thinking swept Corporate America off it's feet with it's revolutionary methods of looking at the whole system.  The big picture!  Now, learn how you can create a webquest that utilizes current theories of Systems Thinking.  Use systems thinking to inspire your students to analyze and interpret their research and then apply their knowledge in relation to the big picture. Web Page Development Workshops Learn to Develop a Simple Web Page This course is perfect for those web developers that are just beginning or those who need a quick brush-up.  Participants will add and format text, insert and manipulate images, create hyperlinks, and format a background color or image.  We are flexible!  We can use your favorite web page development software or bring our own for you to use. Advanced Web Page Development Capture students attention by adding interactive elements to your webquests. Learn how you can find and use the latest online resources (online journals, virtual tours, message boards, chat, e-pals, video, animated graphics, online educational games...) to provide your students with quality, current information that meets all their reading levels and learning styles (Multiple Intelligences.)  You will also learn how to add interactive forms, e-mail links, and so much more. Use Multimedia to Add Zip to Your Webquest   Learn how you can capture your students work to show off your great projects to the world.  You will be using digital cameras to capture images, scanners to digitize your students work, and audio recordings to add sound.  Then, you will add these multimedia resources to your webquest.   Ps. When your students learn that their work may be shown to a broad audience their effort improves dramatically. Capture it all With Digital Movies  Learn how you can use Avid Cinema to capture and edit a video of your student's great work.  Then, add the video to your webquest!  Wow!!!   Meeting the Diverse Needs of All Your Students  Learn how you can use technology to create webquests that expand the learning opportunities for all your students, including those with disabilities.  You will learn how you can innovatively use technology and everyday resources to develop your webquest so that it is more friendly and usable for children with all types of needs.   Resources Workshops You Can Find It (On the Internet!) It's all out there!  Over 1,000,000,000 web pages just waiting to be discovered.  Learn how you can effectively search the Internet using the best "Kid Friendly" search engines and directories.   You will learn how to provide your students with current information that is at their reading level by locating virtual tours, museums, Internet videos, animated activities, online educational games,  interactive sites.... These sites will inspire you kids to want to learn. Organize your Investigation Help your students organize their investigation with graphic organizers.   You will learn how to develop and use graphic organizers that help your students take notes, organize the information that they find, and analyze and interpret their research throughout the webquest. Would you use that Web Page (Evaluating Web Pages)? It always amazes me the number of students who feel that because they find the information on a web page that it must be true.  In this cooperative group activity, you will learn how to effectively assess the web sites you and your students find.  Uncover the secrets of good web page evaluation and then teach your students these much needed skills. Interactive Science Sites Webquests provide teachers and all learners of science with great online and offline resources.  Learn how you can utilize current information, actively manipulate data with interactive sites, "ask the experts," and collect data for real time experiments.  These interactive science sites will be just the thing you need to enhance your hands-on science experiments and demonstrations\ Bring History to Life With the Internet Learn how you can locate and use the multitude of historical information that is available on the Internet. Take a virtual tour of an Egyptian Pyramid,  see an image of the real Declaration of Independence, hear Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, visit the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, watch as Neil Armstrong takes his first step on the moon, and so much more  It's exciting! and it can bring history to life in you classroom.   Language Arts Resources There are many great resources on the Internet that can help you develop an A+ reading, writing, presentation, and listening program.  Learn how you can find  and use these great Language Arts Resources.   Real Life Math Challenges Learn how you can use the Internet to develop an innovative math program.  Find the resources you need to teach your students to critically-think while they apply their math problem-solving skills to solve real-life math challenges.   Develop a math problem-solving rubric to guide your students to superior problem solving.   Find and use current math problem solving strategies that guide your students critical-thinking. Locate the best math problem-solving challenges and webquests out there on the Internet.  Finally, teach your students how to communicate how they solved the problem. Ask the Expert Don't rely solely on the limited information that can be found on the Internet and in children's books.  Learn how you can contact real experts in their fields to learn the answers to all  your student's tough questions.  The eagerness of these experts to help and the quality information they provide you will astound you and your students.   Learning with E-Pals Use e-mail to contact pen pals from around the country or even around the world.  Your students have a unique opportunity to learn about another society or culture through the first-hand perspective of a new friend.  The friendship that forms could lead your students to explore people who are different from them in many ways but in may other ways they are similar. Who knows?  Maybe their friendship could lead to a more peaceful world!     Activities Workshops Projects that will Enhance your Students Learning Learn how you can develop projects that capture your students interest.  Use the excitement created by a project to develop an interdisciplinary approach to learning.  Explore how you can use these projects to see the connections between all areas of your curriculum.      Webquests that Meet All Your Student’s Multiple Intelligences Kids learn in many different ways!  Explore the practical uses of Gardner's theories to develop a webquest that incorporates a multitude of resources and activities that will reach all learners in your classroom.  This seminar relies on Gardner's theories but focuses on lot's of practical classroom resources and activates.   Develop Exciting Hands-On Activities with the Latest Technologies Your students are genuinely excited about learning!  Learn how you can can capture this excitement across your curriculum by using hands-on activities.  Tap into this excitement while you create professional multimedia presentations using a multitude of kid-friendly software programs.  Below, you will find a few of our most loved programs.   Power Point Presentations Learn how you can use the Industry standard multi-media presentation tool, Power Point, to create professional looking presentations for use with your class or as a student presentation tool. Kid Pix Slide Shows Kid Pix is an easy to use painting program that kids love to use to create diagrams and illustrations to enhance their written work.  Learn how you can use Kid Pix Slide Show with your students to create excellent multi-media presentations. Hollywood Shows Learn how your students can use the software program, Hollywood, to create exciting multimedia presentations.  Your students will create a computerized skit when they choose the props and characters and write the skit to tell their characters what to do and say.  Wammo!  It's that easy to create a multimedia masterpiece.   Your Kids can Develop Their Own Web Pages You can share your students (and your own) great work with parents at home, grandparents in Florida, or with other people from around the World!  Learn how you can use web page development software to turn student's class work into dynamic web pages. The quality of  your students' work will greatly improve when they learn that their work could be seen by a wide audience.   Assessments Workshops Using Student Developed Rubrics to Assess Their Work Learn how you can use rubrics to authentically assess you student's work.  Use benchmarks to show your students good examples of student's work, develop a rubric with your students to guide students work so that they will know exactly what they need to do to do a great job, and promote awareness about the criteria to use in self assessing and peer assessing peer performance.  See great examples of rubrics that are already on the Internet and create rubrics that will work in your classroom. Showcasing Students Work With Portfolios Learn how to develop portfolios that effectively showcase your students best work and demonstrate their growth over time.  Hear teacher-tested strategies to learn how to set up a simple portfolio program that really works.

 

Contact workshops@iwebquest.com to discuss setting up a workshop or a seminar that meets the needs of your school or district.  

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