Comments on: The Best Places To Create (And Find) Internet Scavenger Hunts & Webquests

By: Angela Nix

Angela Nix — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:20:34 +0000

Larry this was an awesome write-up. It helped with my Masters Program assigment!! Bless you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Gleaned from Twitter | LangCanada Blog

Gleaned from Twitter | LangCanada Blog — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:02:32 +0000

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By: Internet Scavenger Hunts « We Talk TESOL & TFL

Internet Scavenger Hunts « We Talk TESOL & TFL — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:13:54 +0000

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By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:22:56 +0000

Hi Larry,

Just wanted to let your readers know that the “All About Explorers” website contains lots of false information. From the site:

“Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, many inaccuracies, lies, and even downright absurdity are mixed in indiscriminately. As such, it is important that you do not use this site as a source of reference for your own research!”

By: Incredibly useful things! | Edgartech

Incredibly useful things! | Edgartech — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:44:18 +0000

[...] once again, has a “The Best” collection for everything. Today, I give you his “The Best Places to Create Internet Scavenger Hunts” and “The Best Places to Find Classes for Collaborative [...]

By: Using the Sharetabs tool « Rhondda’s Reflections – wandering around the Web

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:17:01 +0000

[...] been using a very simple little tool lately. I found it by accidant on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog post about creating scavenger hunts. It is called ShareTabs – Share your links as tabs. It allows you to add a list of any links you [...]

By: Albert Benjamin

Albert Benjamin — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:28:48 +0000

Thank you Larry- I found the information very useful.

By: Bernie Dodge

Bernie Dodge — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:51:26 +0000

Thanks for trying to clarify the distinction between WebQuests and scavenger hunts, Larry. I’d like to emphasize with examples the most critically important distinction between the two: A WebQuest is centered around a challenging, doable and (ideally) authentic task. Examples of WebQuest tasks might include: writing a letter to the mayor taking a stand on whether a new landfill should be opened; writing a diary as if you were living in 1491; designing a travel itinerary for geologists visiting Italy; or creating a commemorative mural celebrating space exploration. A WebQuest is never about answering a series of questions. Even though a scavenger hunt might require some analysis or problem solving, it’s not of the same intensity of higher level thinking that a good WebQuest entails.

Obviously there’s a place for both WebQuests and scavenger hunts, but they are different places with very different goals.

By: helend

helend — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:42:11 +0000

Thanks for these Larry – citebite looks very interesting ! An encouraging way to get my learners near to authentic texts – without them feeling stressed-out by complexity or length.
regards
Helen

By: Seth Dickens

Seth Dickens — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:38:59 +0000

Thanks for these Larry!

I’ll definitely be passing on several of these links to some fellow teachers in a training session tomorrow.

All the best,

Seth.