Week 5: Webquests Take Time

During Week 5 I read about Webquest, looked through some samples and decided to try to set up my own webquest. At first, I thought it would be easy to make a webquest. The reason for thinking so was that I have already used wikis, weebly, free-own-website and some other tools to make websites, and things were so easy and fast. However, when I started working in zunal the process got very long. Whenever I needed to make changes and save it, the website asked for additional confirmation to save and the process was not fast. Also it didn't let me put tables and asked to upgrade if I wanted to add some additional features. Perhaps, these limitations are due to the fact that zunal is a free tool. If I were to change something in zunal, I would give more possibilities for teachers to play around and make it easy to update and save quickly, because teachers are so busy and some are resistant to use new things. In order to encourage teachers to use online webquests, things should be easy and fast!   

Another concern that I have is that it took me long time to think about students' roles and the way I should set up the task. I also spent some time to search for necessary links about the topic, because I usually use one coursebook in class, so never had a necessity to search for internet resources for my History class. But now, when I have a good collection of internet resources and when I made my first attempt to make an online webquest for the History class, I feel so proud and happy for the work done in Week 5! Well, I cannot say it is complete yet. There are still many things to add to the webquest. But in general, I learned to do webquest and used search tools to find necessary websites, and I believe I made a significant progress.