WebQuest Reflection

I just finished a simple WebQuest inspired by the novel A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer. It is a great coming of age story wherein the protagonist Nhamo flees her village in Mozambique and travels to Zimbabwe. Only, Nhamo journeys alone by canoe across a massive lake separating the two countries. For my WebQuest, I created three tasks that centered around the settings in the novel. The complete project is to create a travel guide blog with expressive writing describing a setting in the book. I choose to create the WebQuest on Microsoft Publisher and boy howdy, it was actually fun! I used a template to create my outlay, but it was easy to modify according to my own likes. Also, I was able to email my work to myself and edit it with no problems. I included three links for each task to give students an idea of the massive amount of resources available on the Internet
I definitely can foresee myself using this technology in my future classroom. Not only was it easy to do, it was not time consuming and it was enjoyable. Also, I feel this project provides students with enough structure to stay on task, but with enough leeway to not be boring. Thanks Microsoft for this lovely bit of technology!