EDU221WebQuestTime

In 2005 at the National Educational Computing Consortium (NECC) Conference, Bernie Dodge gave a presentation about WebQuests. In a survey of teachers who had designed WebQuests, this chart shows the survey results of the average hours teachers spent on each phase of creating their WebQuest.



ADVICE: Don't panic.
 * You now have the option of using a Web 2.0 tool that will do the HTML coding for you, so you can eliminate "Getting the page uploaded to a server" and "Making the HTML work correctly."
 * Look how much you've already done in Dr. Grace's class!
 * "Coming up with a viable topic and task" and "Designing it to engage higher level thinking" you've already accomplished in Stage 2. How much time did you spend designing and tweaking Stage 2? These experienced teachers spent 4 hours combined on their Stage 2.
 * "Creating the evaluation section"...You've already accomplished that. You will simply put your rubrics in the WebQuest for your evaluation section.
 * What's left to do in this class:
 * "Finding images" took these teachers over 2 hours. Why would it take that long? Yours will probably take less because the Web 2.0 tool you're going to use will have images and themes you can use that look good and that you have permission to use.
 * "Balancing learners roles and responsibilities" and "Designing the steps in the process section" are part of Stage 3. You will write your teaching and learning sequence for this last lesson of your unit this week and incorporate it into the WebQuest.
 * "Finding good web sites to link to" doesn't feel like it should take over 4 hours, but finding good resources does take time. Finding resources for yourself is one thing, finding resources that you are willing to stake your reputation on and have students use is quite another. You have to make sure you don't pick Web sites that will get you fired. You've already found many good resources when you were creating your student sample and you recorded them on your pre-requisite skills page.
 * The majority of the 3 hours spent on "Making the page look attractive" will be done together in class.

//CREDITS: This is slide 9 of 53 of the PowerPoint presentation which can be found at [] (click on "Hours spent" on the left panel).//