From a web quest to a web page

A webquest to go into the topic

Working in groups you we had to research through the resources that you can get in the Webquest in order to get a clearer idea of the concept "guidance abd counselling". 

What is a web quest?

- WebQuests are inquiry-oriented activities designed to make the most of the student's time. 

- With the teacher as facilitator-

The information used in WebQuests is drawn from the Internet.
Students are provided with online resources and are asked to use this information constructively to solve the presented problem rather than just cutting and pasting material into an assignment or project.
   

Teachers have already done the work of choosing good resources. 

By eliminating the need to search or hunt for information the student is given more time to analyse, criticise and assess the information they find.
 

It allow us not only search for information but to debate, discuss or defend a particular stance with classmates. 

Therefore, I could see how people with the same resources can do such a different work. I didn´t know this tecqnique of using a webquest that save the students the work searching good resources.

It is a first approach to the School Guidance Counselling concept. The objectives to be achieved are:

1. Understand the concept of school guidance counselling.

2. Know the main functions of the school guidance counselling services and the areas in which they are developed.

3. Identify the people who receive school guidance counselling services.

4. Know what  the main responsibilities and roles of the school guidance counsellor are.

Once the information was gathered we had to prepare a digital product (presentation, blog, video, webpage...) to be presented in the room class to your professor and the rest of the group.

The following are the criteria for assessing the work which will have to be presented to the class group:

- Precision and accuracy in describing the concepts worked.

- Technical quality of the digital product developed.

- Communication skills demonstrated during the presentation.

- Self-evaluation.

- Evaluation of the presentations by the other groups.




We chose doing a web page (which know it is not a web b page because it expired)

https://www.dropbox.com/home/COUNSELING/COUNSELING%20PRACTiCE




THEIR GUIDANCE SERVICES

THE MAIN OBJECTIVE

How was the experience of this work?

We had never done a web page, but we considered that this could be the best way of presenting our work.

In doing a web page we found the advantage of how comfortable is being able to work from your computer whenever you want. The changes on the web page will be save, and it is not like if you have a "word" and we have to send ir each other in order to have the progress of the work.
The only difficulty that I can mention is that we lost it because we didnñt pay for mantaining it. We should have looked for another web page to transfer it, but at least we copy the main of our work in a "word".

Related to the web quest, I,ve never heard about this technique but I really, really liked it. It save the students the work searching good resources, and at the same time, as I have already mentioned, it allow us to see how people with the same resources can do such a different work. 

I think that it was a good way of getting clear the main concepts of the subject, while we developed our ITCs knowledge and we get used to working in teams.