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Design
Patterns for A
half-day workshop at Northern
Kentucky University, May 4, 2002 Bernie Dodge, Ph.D. • Educational Technology Department • San Diego State University |
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| Introduction | Introduction to design patterns. Discussion of design patterns drawn from architecture and from software design. A first look at WebQuest Design Patterns. | |
| WebQuest Design | Overview of the entire WebQuest design process which includes links to all the parts of the WebQuest templates for students and teachers. | |
| Choosing a Viable Topic or Goal | The four criteria that must be met: using the web well; tied to curriculum; replaces a lesson you aren't happy with; engages higher level thinking. Jot down a few sentences about your topic. | |
| Choosing an appropriate task and/or design pattern | The Taxonomy of Task Types provides a language for describing what we ask learners to do. Explore the Examples Matrix, and take another look at the still-growing Design Patterns Index as you come up with a task for your WebQuest. Jot down your task in three sentences written with students as the audience. | |
| Using the new templates | Starting at the Design Patterns Index, commit yourself to a particular pattern, and download the appropriate templates. Open up your web editor and begin to work on the Task and Title. | |
| Break | ||
| Developing Evaluation Measures | Rubrics for WebLessons and Designing a Rubric. Checklists and objective tests (done with DiscoverySchool's Quiz Center, for example) may also be appropriate to assess interim performance, but not for the terminal goal. Note that it's important to draft the evaluation while the task is fresh in mind and before you get lost in the details of the Process. Jot down some ideas for the dimensions you will evaluate. | |
| Finding Good Resources | It's critical that you become facile at finding things. Step Zero, Four Nets for Better Searching, and Specialized Search Engines. | |
| Designing the Process | This is the part that takes longest. Use the Process Checklist to make sure you've covered all the bases. Be sure to consider whether you'll need scaffolding for reception, transformation and production. Jot down some notes about the three phases of your process: initial information acquisition, information transformation, and information production. | |
| Fine tuning | Use the Fine Points site to make your pages look more professional. | |
| Evaluation and revision | Use the WebQuest Evaluation Rubric to check over your work (or have someone else do it for you). Monitor how well your students do on the task to see what needs to be improved in the lesson. | |
| Q&A&Q | You've got questions? We've got answers and more questions. Want to keep the conversation going? Sign up for the WebQuest Group on Yahoo. | |