English and Digital Literacies

Unit 6.2: How to Design Your Own Webquest

Bessie Mitsikopoulou
School of Philosophy
Faculty of English Language and Literature
The Elements of a Webquest
 Introduction (1/2)
• A short paragraph to introduce the activity or
lesson to the students.
• Audience of this paragraph: students.
• If there is a role or scenario involved (e.g.,
"You are a detective trying to identify the
mysterious poet.") then here is where you'll
set the stage.

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 Introduction (2/2)
• A The purpose of this section is to both
prepare and hook the reader.
• Here you'll communicate the Big Question
(Essential Question, Guiding Question) that
the whole WebQuest is centered around.

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 The Task
It describes what the end • personal insight to be
result of the learners' articulated,
activities will be. The task • summary to be created,
could be a: • persuasive message or
• problem or mystery to be journalistic account to be
solved, crafted,
• position to be formulated • a creative work,
and defended, If the final product involves
• product to be designed using some tool mention it
• complexity to be analyzed, here.

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 Process (1/3)
List the steps that students will go through to get to the
end point:
• Use the numbered list format in your web editor to
automatically number the steps in the procedure.
• Describing this section well will help other teachers
to see how your lesson flows and how they might
adapt it for their own use.
• This document is addressed to the student, however,
so describe the steps using the second person (‘you’)
e.g. First you'll be assigned to a team of 3 students.
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 Process (2/3)
Include the online resources that you've
identified as they go through the Process.
• You may have a set of links that everyone
looks at as a way of developing background
information.
• Different groups may look at different sources
within the description of that stage of the
process.

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 Process (3/3)
Information Organization
Provide some guidance on how to organize the
information gathered:
• suggestions to use flowcharts, summary tables,
concept maps, or other organizing structures,
• a checklist of questions to analyze the information
with, or things to notice or think about,
• guide documents that cover specific skills needed for
this lesson (e.g. how to brainstorm, how to prepare
to interview an expert), link them here.
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 Evaluation
Describe to the learners how their performance
will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be
a common grade for group work vs. individual
grades.

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 Conclusion
Put a couple of sentences here that summarize
what they will have accomplished or learned by
completing this activity or lesson. You might also
include some rhetorical questions or additional
links to encourage them to extend their thinking
into other content beyond this lesson.

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 Credits and References
• List here the sources of any images, music or
text that you're using. Provide links back to
the original source. Say thanks to anyone who
provided resources or help.
• List any books and other analog media that
you used as information sources as well.

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Online authoring tools for
Webquests
 QuestGarden

[1]

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Webquest with QuestGarden (1/3)

[2]

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Webquest with QuestGarden (2/3)

[3]

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Webquest with QuestGarden (3/3)

[4]

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Sample Webquests with QuestGarden
• Around Australia
• The stolen laptop
• Get to know the WLCCS wiki
• Coquinaria Romana
• Using your English
• My European adventure
• WANTED: Representatives to represent The U.K.
• Animals around the World
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 Zunal Webquest Maker

[5]

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 Example of Webquest with Zunal

[6]

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 Financing
• The present educational material has been developed as part of the
educational work of the instructor.
• The project “Open Academic Courses of the University of Athens” has only
financed the reform of the educational material.
• The project is implemented under the operational program “Education
and Lifelong Learning” and funded by the European Union (European
Social Fund) and National Resources

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Notes
Note on History of Published Version
The present work is the edition 1.0

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 Reference Note
Copyright National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Bessie
Mitsikopoulou 2014. Bessie Mitsikopoulou. “English and Digital Literacies.
How to Design your Own Webquest”. Edition: 1.0. Athens 2014. Available at:
http://opencourses.uoa.gr/courses/ENL10/.

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 Licensing Note
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third parties are excluded, e.g. photographs, diagrams etc. They are contained therein and
covered under their conditions of use in the section «Use of Third Parties Work Note»

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 Preservation Notices
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Note of use of third parties work (1/2)
This work makes use of the following works:
Image 1: Screenshot of QuestGarden Website, Copyright QuestGarden, Inc.
Image 2: Webquest - Dinosaurs Before Dark, Copyright Beth Szabo, Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, QuestGarden.
Image 3: Webquest - Using your English, Copyright Karlee Ontiveros, Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, QuestGarden.
Image 4: Webquest - Ferocious Predator or Soup of the Day?, Copyright
Rebecca Tibbey, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike,
QuestGarden.
Image 5: Screenshot of Zunal Webquest Maker Website, Copyright Zunal.com.
All rights reserved.

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Note of use of third parties work (2/2)
Image 6: Webquest - Horror Stories around the World, Copyright Ana Maria
Silva. Permission is granted for others to print/distribute,share,use and
modify this WebQuest for educational, non-commercial purposes as long as
the original authorship is credited. Zunal.com.
Table 1: Based on a table from Carvalho, A. A. A. (2007). Guest Editor’s
Introduction. Interactive Educational Multimedia, 15.

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