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 * I Am Australian

Introduction** to invite and motivate the students to become interested in answering the question. "You might try tradiitional attention-getters like anecdotes, examples, quotations, metaphors or scenarios to get the creative juices flowing." Tom March


 * Essential Question:** What does it mean to be Australian?

**The Task** The Task is what action or product students will take or develop to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning goals shaped by the Question. [|http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/taskonomy.html] Taskonomy in Pictures: [|http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/tasksimap/]  **Background Students need to have a general understanding of the topic and related issues before they begin their research. Develop activities that are interesting and cover a wide range of topics/issues. Use of questions,** [|**Samplers**] **and** [|**Knowledge Hunts**] **etc are recommended. Don't forget the //[|"Power of Kid's Own Questions"]// too.** ** The Process May include strategies for dividing the task into subtasks, descriptions of roles to be played or perspectives to be taken by each learner. The instructor can also use this place to provide learning advice and interpersonal process advice, such as how to conduct a brainstorming session.** [] Process Checklist: [] Student Process Guides: [] > Don't underestimate the value of coming together to debate and answer the question. Debates, [|visual organisers], [|group processes], [[[] |thinking strategies]] are all useful tools. [|> http://www.ozline.com/webquests/design3.html >]Group Process: This is where the thinking takes place. Scaffold could be needed to collate their thoughts. > //"Just what's going on in the minds of the learners?". Because that's where it's at. Here's where you make sure the Task elicits the desired cognition and addresses the learning Gap you identified at the beginning of this process."// Tom March > Designing the WebQuest Process Checklist will help. [|http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpfs98/process-design.html]  **Real Word Feedback** Writing, thinking and solving problems for real purposes and authentic audiences is very powerful and motivating. Some examples include: emailing experts with their conclusions, forums, discussion boards, and local options as presentations, debates, and exhibitions to local experts, peers, cross age students, community members and parents. examples: [|Ask an Expert], [|Web66], [|EdNA] forums, [|Global Youth Forums] **Conclusion** **Teacher Notes** > What learning outcomes are desired? How do we want the students to think re Bloom's That is: The Type of Cognition [|What is the Learning Gap?]  **Evaluation Rubric** or Student Evaluation that promotes metacognition Rubric for Web Lessons: [] (through []) [|Activity Learning Flow] Learning Flow || * references, articles || * comparison / contrast || * oral presentations || Learning Flow
 * ** Transformative Task: ** The main purpose of using a WebQuest is to scaffold student thinking and research so that eventually a transformative task will help the students engage in higher order thinking.
 * **Roles**: Defining roles/positions so students view the question from different perspectives
 * "**//Lastly, don't forget about the conclusion. Naturally it makes good semantic sense to return to whatever attention-getter you used in the introduction. This helps learners complete the cognitive link back to that initial thinking. Research has shown that we help students develop cognitive skills when we talk about them. So overtly discuss the transformative thinking the students engaged in and talk about what it was like (how it was hard, what was different, what were they used to, etc.). Finally, it's nice to include discussion of how what the students learned applies to other topics. If you can help students internalize and transfer these skills you've done a terrific job." [|Tom March]//
 * Link to //Why Use WebQuests//: [|http://www.ozline.com/webquests/intro.html]
 * Outcomes/Learning Goals: Do we want to develop a concept, form an opinion, challenge an attitude?
 * Strategy: Strategies used to develop creative and critical thinking and achievement of outcomes.
 * ~ Example ||~ Inputs ||~ Transformations ||~ Output ||
 * ~ Active
 * images, sounds
 * news reports, press releases
 * experts
 * dynamic data sources
 * project / field reports
 * concept creation
 * analysis
 * synthesis
 * evaluation
 * problem solving
 * decision making
 * policy formation
 * written reports, letters, etc.
 * creative writing
 * videoconferencing
 * audioconferencing
 * Web publishing
 * ~ This WQ ||~ Inputs ||~ Transformations ||~ Output ||
 * ~ Active

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Useful stuff:**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,arial;">WebQuest checklist: []
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,arial;">A WebQuest Rubric: []
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,arial;">WebQuest Templates: []
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,arial;">5 Day WebQuest PD event: []
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,arial;">Do this before you design a WebQuest: []

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