Below is an annotated list of web resources for educators that are useful for building and designing WebQuests. If you know of any other similar sites, please forward them to esther@lookstein.org and they will be added to this page.
a) The WebQuest Page
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
b) “Why WebQuests”
An Article on the value of WebQuests in the classroom
http://www.ozline.com/webquests/intro.html
c) Focus: the five rules for building a WebQuest
http://www.iste.org/L&L/archive/vol28/no8/featuredarticle/dodge/index.html
d)
The building blocks of a WebQuest
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/anatomy.htm
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/webquest/buildingblocks.html
http://www.biopoint.com/msla/research.html
e) The first WebQuest - developed by Bernie Dodge
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Courses/EDTEC596/WebQuest1.html
f) A rubric for the evaluation of WebQuests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/SDBiarritz/rubric.html
g) Online Workshops for WebQuest Development
http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/concept2class/month8/
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/ssi_includes/webquests.html
a) http://listserv.biu.ac.il/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0011&L=lookjed&P=R2260
b) http://listserv.biu.ac.il/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0104&L=lookjed&P=R1956
c) http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/EDT628/shovanes/index.HTM
d) http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kroc/whales/WHALES.HTM
e) http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/PollSol/Week1.html
a) A collection of educational resources for heterogeneous teaching in the day school developed and collected by the Lookstein Center staff and participants in Principals’ Seminar programs at the Lookstein Center.
www.lookstein.org/heterogeneous
b) An
online resource for learning gemara. Designed together by the educator and the
students
http://www.geocities.com/pittinsky/
c) An
online book on the history of Israel
http://www.fuchsmizrachi.org/introduction.htm
d) A good and comprehensive example of a source of lesson plans for general studies. This collection contains more than 1000 lesson plans, which have been written and submitted by teachers.
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
e) The
Lookstein Center’ Virtual Resource Center includes curricula developed
by educators
http://yucs.org/~frazers/lookst/resourceint.cgi#search
a) Surf this site for general and valuable information on search engines and ‘how-to’ submit your site to search engines: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
a) Search the Invisible web
http://www.profusion.com/ (go to this page and choose Fine Tune, on the far right)
b) Some classic search engines
www.google.com
www.altavista.com
www.yahoo.com
www.lycos.com
http://search.msn.com/
http://www.redesearch.com/ -
a MetaSearch engine. A broad search suitable if you don’t have any idea of
the category
http://www.infozoid.com/ - a
MetaSearch broad search engine
http://www.mamma.com/ - a MetaSearch engine.
Searches over ten engines and directories.
http://www.c4.com/ - A MetaSearch engine that recognizes questions and keywords
www.alltheweb.com - a MetaSearch
engine.
www.dogpile.com - a MetaSearch
engine.
www.metacrawler.com - a
MetaSearch engine.
c) Specialized search engines
The Northern Light research engine uses classification intelligence and precision relevancy ranking to improve Web searching. They deliver results from the Web and from their Special Collection™ of over 7100 respected full-text publications not otherwise available to Web searchers. The engine then organizes the results into Custom Search Folders™, which are easier to view.
d) This
is a search tool that you download to your hard disk. It accesses a variety of
search engines and organizes the results. Search results can also be saved
on your computer.
http://www.copernic.com/products/copernic/index.html
e) Search the Usenet
A good place to start, includes a how-to page
http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/
Some popular Usenet groups and searches
http://groups.google.com