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= **Bernie Dodge** =

__**Biography:**__ Bernie Dodge is a professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. Intrigued by the systematic design of instruction, he developed the WebQuest model in 1995. WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all of the information learners work with comes from the web. The development of WebQuests had early input from Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and other participants of the summer "Teach the Teachers" consortium.

A WebQuest is fairly simple to create and can make a typical lesson plan come to life by making it more interactive. Students have questions to answer or tasks to complete, and must click on links out to the internet to find them. Technologically, creating a WebQuest can be very simple. As long as you create a document with hyperlinks, you can create a WebQuest. It can be created in Word, Powerpoint, and even Excel. To make it even easier, you can use QuestGarden (created by Bernie Dodge). You may also search and use (and even edit) WebQuests created by others. There are a great many WebQuests out there to choose from, which is time-saving for busy teachers.
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Here are some samples of WebQuests created with QuestGarden:
 * Dinosaurs Before Dark
 * Museum of Mesopotamia
 * [|Gimme Shelter: Homeless in America]
 * I Want YOU for the U. S. Army

There are many graduate students world wide conducting thesis and dissertation research on the effectiveness of WebQuests. Some of these studies have made it into print as well, though the number of data-based studies in refereed journals is still small. There is not, at this point, any edited bibilography available about WebQuest research. Here, though are some places to get started to begin your own research. tracks many kinds of publications ranging from research journals to practitioner magazines and online papers. As of this writing, there are over 3000 articles cited that use the word WebQuest. To narrow it down some, try adding the word thesis, or dissertation to the search terms.
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I have created a WebQuest and found it to be a great interactive teaching tool that students would enjoy. This type of learning takes them away from traditional pen and paper/booklearning methods and puts them into the world of technology that is motivating and interactive. It is a fairly simple idea that can produce great results!
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