Credit Requirements - checklist

The Final Project (submission deadline May 12, 2017)

A personal website, which includes:

• a speaking Avatar link, 
• the personal profile
• photogallery of photos taken on your own, 
• your choice: either audiocomments to the images in the gallery, or a video of cca 5 minutes, English sound, with your subtitles and inserted instructions for the use in a lesson;
• a page on your hobbies/interests including active links to references, 
• HotPot index (incl. Teacher's book) and exercises, 
• a photo-collage you made in Photoshop
• an audio reportage (the Gorilla story, or another) 
• the link to your online survey, and the presentation of its results, described in a brief text and summarised in graphs (Prezi).

IMPORTANT:

Check your grammar and spelling before submission - use English only!

Check you included all required items before submission.

Check all links before submission.

Check the presence of the HotPot Teacher's book - describing the topic and target group.

When ready, send the URL of your website via email to the tutor.

WebQuest - Introduction

A WebQuest is an effective tool for USING English. In the previous session you have already  discovedet the most important features of a WebQuest, and your suggested activities may be developed into one.


REMEMBER: A good WebQuest
- uses Internet resources (written in good authentic English)
- requires independent thinking, not mechanic copying from references
- is based on information processing: the students search for facts, evaluate, and come to their your own conclusions



WebQuest Home Page

TASK A
1. Explore the web to find out what a WebQuest is. What is the difference between a WebQuest and a LanguageQuest?
2. Identify an example of good practice - a WebQuest which you consider to be of a high quality - and enter its URL to tne comments of this blog.

Example: Greece or China?

A tool for making and publishing presentations online


WebQuest characteristic:
• information search
• information processing (THINKING, evaluating, comparing, choosing, combining, analysis, synthesis…)
• creativity
• autonomy
• fun
What is necessary:
• clear instructions
• clear description of the final product
• adequate choice of internet sources, with comments

WebQuest from the T’s point of view:
• choosing topic and task
• TIME – web search, detailing the process, clear and logical instructions
• focus on information processing – prevent plagiarism
• focus on authentic English resources

WebQuest from the Ss point of view:
• TASK
• instructions
• tips + web URLs
• final product
• autonomy + freedom of choice
• creativity


TASK B 
1. In pairs, re-design and develop your suggested activities form the previous lesson into a real webQuest.
First, deal with the TOPIC - at best, use some cross-curricular content: do not focus on English, but on another subject matter.
3. Think about the outcomes of your WebQuest. Describe the final product and enter the WebQuest topic and the product description into the comments to this blog. (Sign with both names.)

Inspiration:
WebQuest 1 - Canterbury Tales
WebQuest 2 - Animals
WebQuest 3 - A Trip to Egypt
WebQuest 4 - A Diary of the Survivor


For the final design and publishing of your WebQuest, you may:

use questgarden or zunal or other sites:
http://questgarden.com/
http://www.zunal.com/
https://createwebquest.com/
http://tommarch.com/strategies/webquests/webquests-template/
Read the registration and free use conditions first.