This the most complex use of the internet, developing a higher level of understanding and wisdom; implementing meaningful inquiry and authentic assessment through the internet; implementing constructivist ideas; all through integrating the internet into curriculum.  You might first consider serveral formats.

 

4.1) Our Matrix of Compelling Integration Formats!

Primary WebQuest Sites:	Other WebQuest Materials:	Other Compelling Formats:
San Diego Matrix (Top, Midling, Newest)  Primary School WebQuests!  SEDC's 1200+	Rubrics: A, B, Checklist, SelfEval.  Design Steps, Quest Template	SOARWEB, SURWEB and KanCRN  Tech. Challenge Grants NASA's COTF: modules
NMSU, EdHelper, San Bernadino Matrix	WebQuest Inservice presentation,  other Project Formats	SAVVY Cyber Teacher  Compelling Sites
More WebQuests: A, B, C,  WebRing	OnLine Teaching WebQuest,	J.Harris' Virtual Architecture, Interpersonal Exchanges Activity Structure samples
Webquest to Webquest, Library Research Quest	Spartanburg SC,  Greensboro NC, Salt Lake City	CyberQuests: HS, MS, LS
SDSU WebQuest Page, Hotlist  Trades:Design your own home, Dental Health, Home Energy, Nutrition	Mr. J.Fairman's (Cleveland) Advertising WebQuest,  China Quest, DNA Webquest,  Mozart Quest	ThinkQuests, CyberQuery and a ThinkQuest Project incorporating all of the formats!
Primary Grades WebQuest	Who's Footing the Bill? Quest	Other ideas from Filamentality
WebQuests resulting from another Challenge Grant!	Grad Course in Teaching WebQuests,	Blue Web'n & PacBell's Search, Enter <WebQuest>
Philosophical/Pedagogical basis
Webquests & Higher Level Learning	Constructivism,  Resource Based Learning	K-12 Standards / Outcomes Benchmarks
ILT Problem Based Links	Lessons based on Standards	Database of 201 standards

More examples of this fourth level: First  Develop a Format | WebQuests | NJNIE | Judi Harris and Samples | Columbia | Compelling Internet Use |  
 

Jump to Compelling Internet Use links on the ILT's  "Studying WWW" page.

WebQuest Difficulties?  {if experiencing connection problems for WebQuests, try this ITDC link or Kathy Schrock's WebQuest links or our other lists of webquests.}

 

4.2) Procedures to design your own "Compelling Internet Project"

Stevens Institute of Technology has developed a series of workshops around meaningful inquiry, real time data gathering, and collaboration through internet integration. These Classroom Projects are part of the New Jersey Networking Infrastructure In Education.  Stevens has a series of steps for designing your own collaborative project.

Columbia University has some links to help you prepare for your own compelling project.

 

New Mexico State University

Carmen Gonzales has a series of WebQuests at New Mexico State University's Digital Desert Library.

Global SchoolNet FoundationWebquest links

Characteristics of Webquests

Examples of Webquests

 

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