My take on Internet Based Projects and Webquests

Internet-based projects have helped many teachers since they are a structured way to begin to incorporate the Internet into the language classroom. Some of its advantages are: no special knowledge is needed, cooperation and interaction are favoured, real-world situations can be included, critical thinking is promoted.

In particular, webquests have been a recent trend in education. Yet, many people still struggle to understand how to use them. In this post, I will introduce you to WebQuests and provide an example of one for your lessons.

To start with, webquests are web-based projects; they involve the use of the internet in a series of lessons. In a webquest, there is a central, guiding question or idea and its purpose is for students to find an answer to that question.

There are 2 kind of webquests: short-term webquests last a couple of lessons and long-term webquests might last several weeks.

Everyone can create a webquest but you should have: research and analytical skills to find appropriate websites and word processing skills. 

As I told you before, I have created a webquest. This webquest goes about movie characters and the target language are body vocabulary items, have got and possesive pronouns. Yet, this is just an example; you can build a webquest on whichever topic you want to following these 4 steps:

• Introduction: introduce the overall theme of the webquest. Notice that webquests address students.
  

  
  

• Task: students will learn what they have to do ; ideally, a real-life situation.         
  

  
  

• Process: a set of activities or research tasks using the internet.
  

  
  
  
  
  

• Evaluation: self-evaluation and teacher evaluation; give feedback.