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OTLA Home Office of Teaching and Learning Advancement, TC 402, tla@bsu.edu, (765) 285-1763.
Center for Teaching Technology, TC 402, ctt@bsu.edu,
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WebQuest Generator is an application intended to enable all educators, including those who lack the time or inclination to use HTML editing software, to generate WebQuest electronic lessons. The current version, WebQuest Generator 2.1, allows users to easily include targeted skills and proficiencies in their WebQuests, while selecting pictures and previewing results using a graphical interface. WebQuest lessons are teacher-designed, skill and proficiency-specific, task-oriented units of instruction. They may be delivered via the World Wide Web or installed on a computer's hard drive. The lessons provide a relatively safe, teacher-directed environment in which students may access the Web. Once posted on servers, they can be easily shared among teachers. Read more about Webquests at San Diego State University where they were first created.
WebQuest Generator 2.1: This version of WebQuest Generator, released in April of 2002, fixes potential problems with Resource #6 in version 2 and preview background display in version 2.01. Users of versions 2.0 and 2.01 should upgrade to version 2.1.
Original WebQuest Generator: The original WebQuest Generator is still available for individuals who find that its functionality meets their needs.
Ball State University students involved with The Center for Teaching Technology (CTT) and teacher education classes have produced a number of WebQuest Lessons that you may find useful or interesting. Katy Mettler, a CTT student assistant and Elementary Education major, used the center's WebQuest Generator application to produce "Civil War Women", an outstanding example of a WebQuest lesson that makes direct use of Web-based resources to provide learners with a guided, skill-specific, Internet exploration experience. An enhanced version, edited with Netscape Composer, is also available. Katy teamed with CTT student assistants Amy Zollman, Sarah Bennett, Angela Mason, and Andy Lamott to produce "Pig Mania", a WebQuest employing E.B. White's classic childrens' story, Charlotte's Web, to emphasize the meaning and importance of caring. In addition, Amy created a math lesson, titled "Some Pig", based upon the tale of Charlotte and Wilbur. Katy was one of more than forty students who produced WebQuests in a technology-imbued section of EDEL 101, an introductory class taught by CTT director Gary Pavlechko for the Ball State Teachers College Department of Elementary Education. The EDEL 101 WebQuests demonstrate that even beginning teacher education students are capable of producing effective online lessons within the WebQuest environment.
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