Thursday, 31 January 2008

Reflection on WebQuests

We happened to learn about the so-called WebQuests when we were at university. However, at that time, we just thought that WebQuests were only websites that teacher used for reproducing materials in their teaching. Amazingly, what we thought is completely different from what Ms. Marta said. WebQuests proves to be a powerful tool for students to learn outside classrooms. It is useful that they have a chance to explore the given websites themselves to find out the answers to the teacher's questions. WebQuests can be very flexible in a way that students may have different answers depending on what they understand.
With regard to visual aspect, websites to be chosen to create WebQuests are supposed to be quite well-formed with beautiful graphics. This will stimulate students’ interest, thus they can learn more.

Generally speaking, WebQuests are very effective for active language learning as long as teachers are aware of how to create WebQuests with adequate quality.
And many thanks to Marta for her introducing to us a great Webquest Resources which contains a great number of WebQuests available and a tool for creating WebQuests.

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