"A 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 a central, open-ended question, development of individual expertise and participation in a final group process that attempts to transform newly acquired information into a more sophisticated understanding. The best WebQuests do this in a way that inspires students to see richer thematic relationships, facilitate a contribution to the real world of learning and reflect on their own metacognitive processes."

 (Tom March, circa 2003)



for me a webquest is an academic tool that teachers use to assign activities or tasks to students in which they make use of internet resources to solve a real messy problem, also a webquest is formed by six essential components that structure the activity and they are useful to organise students at the time of working,these six components are: (introduction,task,resources,process,evaluation,conclusion), it could be use to teach many topics of different subjects and it is an interesting way of teaching and learning.


some advantages a WEBQUEST has are:

 * They are an easy way for teachers to begin to incorporate the Internet into the language classroom,for example.

 * it allows students to share their knowledge between them.

 * webquests are interdisciplinary, allowing for crossover into many departments and subject areas.

 *Learners are not able to simply regurgitate information they find, but are guided towards a transformation of that information in order to achieve a given task.


 disadvantages:

 * students can get confused with some points at the time of working.

 * teacher have to be very clear at the time of giving instructions to students to achieve the aim they want.


 Mixie Ortiz

 regards!