QuestGarden

Dr. Bernie Dodge has developed a new site, QuestGarden (registration is required), to promote the WebQuest model and assist those new to developing WebQuests. The site offers an interactive model for developing WebQuests and intends to improve the quality of WebQuests by helping authors create instructional resources focused on higher order thinking skills. You do not need to know how to use web authoring software to create a WebQuest within this system.

QuestGarden takes the author through a developmental process and provides a convenient editing system for creating the components of a WebQuest (screen image showing the editing environment appears below).

 

The finished product is then published. The screen image below shows the WebQuest presented in Chapter 6 submitted through QuestGarden.

The site is also intended to encourage a community approach. Users are free to modify the WebQuests developed by others to fit with different classroom requirements and to include different resources or expectations. The association of the project with the original author is maintained.