Use these tutorials and help sheets to help you create your own WebQuest:

Using Outline View - - This is an excellent free download from Peter kay at www.yourcomputerminute.com

Sketching out your WIP/WebQuest - - Use this resource to help you sketch out your WebQuest designs

Report Template writing frame in Word - - This is the writing frame using an Elegant Report Template. Two other templates (Professional and Contemporary styles are also included in the resource)

Using the Outliner Function - - This helps you set up the Outlining toolbar in PowerPoint

Creating a campaign leaflet in Microsoft Publisher - - This is a further example of a writing frame using text boxes in Publisher. It can be used to create a 'pro' or 'anti' chocolate leaflet. A template for an anti-chocolate leaflet is also included in the zip.

Designing a magazine cover - - This is an excellent KS3 resource to help you to layout your magazine cover effectively. Example in Publisher- - This is the finished product using the chocolate theme.

Creating a WebQuest- - This is an important resource to help you consider how to encourage higher thinking skills in students. Go beyond the 'scavenger-hunt' type of WebQuest and ask students to form higher level opinions, and also transform the information they have retrieved in various software's and formats. Encourage self and peer evaluation.

A WebQuest in Excel - - This is and example of using Format/Sheet/Background in Microsoft Excel to insert a map which can be hyperlinked easily to various web sites.

Creating a WIP - - This is a tutorial from the Specialist Schools Trust on using the Word Web Wizard to create a frame-based web project. This is a highly recommended way of creating your WebQuest.

Evaluation Rubrics - Report - - Collaboration - - These are two rubrics to help students take stock of their progress and evaluate the their own and peers performance.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

I hope this WebQuest has given you some good ideas for designing your own WebQuest in the future. If you go ahead and design your own original Quest, please make it freely available to as many people as possible. We will all benefit from you sharing your good practice.

If you require any further support with this project please feel free to email me at rob0960@blueyonder.co.uk and I will be more than happy to help out.

Robert Charles Bashforth - Teacher and ICT Champion at Stocksbridge High School, Sheffield