NECC, Tuesday, Session 2: Bernie Dodge

Bernie Dodge

This is the other father or WebQuests. His theme is that the mechanics of doing WebQuests keep people from creating WebQuests. He is looking at a way to make the whole thing easier. The whole presentation is available.

Among the most useful thoughts were these:

• Finding good links is hard – try www.ethemes.org/ethemes/index.shtml where teachers have been creating libraries of good links based on grade level and topic areas


• pedagogical knowledge using the WebQuest Design Patterns

Then he spoke about authoring tools that allow you to focus on the concepts rather than the mechanics. Many provide both the development and the space. These may be of limited interest as they include other requirements.

• All in French: www2.csduroy.qc.ca/mission/generateur/index.asp


• Teachnology


• PHPwebquest (docs are all in Spanish and must be installed on a local server)


• Instant Webquest


• Teacherweb.com (not free after 30 days) – check out a sample made here

But he’s also creating a space to scaffold future WebQuest development

• QuestGarden will be available Sept 1 2005.


• Free until Sept 1, 2006; $20/2 yr after