Tips

To make a compilation task qualify as a true WebQuest, there needs to be some transformation of the information compiled. Simply putting a hotlist of web sites or a collection of web images together arbitrarily isn't enough.

To raise the level of the thinking skills required for a compilation task:

• use information resources that are in different formats, and require that they be rewritten or reformatted to create the compilation;
• set standards for the organization of the compilation, but don't make all the organization and formatting decisions for the learners.
• require learners to develop their own criteria for selecting the items they put together and to articulate their criteria.

Examples

• A cookbook compiled from recipes solicited from relatives, as in Cooking with your Three Sisters;
• A deck of cards to aid field trips as in Identifying Leaves of Pennsylvania;
• A selection of web resources to build a virtual exhibition, as in Kathy Schrock's 1960's Museum.
• A time capsule, as in A Separate Peace.