Modified WebQuest and Explanation

This is my modified version of the WebQuest "Alien Anthem."

I believe my WebQuest is a "real" WebQuest because it goes along with the quote "A real WebQuest is a scaffolded learning structure that uses links to essential resources on the World Wide Web and an authentic task to motivate students’ investigation of an open-ended question, development of individual expertise, and participation in a group process that transforms newly acquired information into a more sophisticated understanding." My WebQuest takes resources from the web and in history and causes students to work together. With creativity and expression, students explore deep into a particular topic learning new things along the way. Through participation and understanding the students create a final project, which in my WebQuest they did, and it followed the real Webquest procedure. In my WebQuest students work together using online tools as well as hands on items that result in critical thinking to solve the task they are faced with.

Transformative Group Process: With this process students create their own project and are unable to copy someone else's work. For example in my WebQuest the students had to create their own sounds, movements, and pictures to interpret the Star Spangled Banner into another language. With this process students have to collaborate with one another to complete the required assignment.

Individual Expertise: Many students do not have a background or are an expert on the topic they are learning about in the WebQuest. A real WebQuest requires students to do some prior research to receive a better understanding of the concept before starting the project. In my WebQuest the students watched a video of the history of the Star Spangled Banner and when it was written. They also were given tools that if they did not know what certain words or phrases meant, they had to look it up.

Authentic Tasks that Motivate:  This subject states that WebQuests should motivate the students as well as give them confidence to succeed as well as in their work. A real WebQuest should give the opprotunity for a student to express themselves and feel confident that their work is satisfactory and appealing. In my WebQuest each member of the group is required to create either their own sound, movement, or picture that can be translated into a different language. Then the students collaborate together to create a final production that all of them can feel proud of. A student can also feel satisfaction in this WebQuest if they had to do a lot of research before hand in order to do this assignment.