Pre-Symposium Planning Our focus for the coming Symposium is to provide you with tools that will help you to improve your existing WebQuests (and other lessons) and to plan your next one. Before you come to the Patterns Summer Symposium 2000, please review these sites: 1. Project selection: Covers four filters that will aid you in selecting your new project idea. The WebQuest project should: be tied to local, state or national curriculum standards; replace a lesson that you've not totally satisfied with; make good use of the Web; require a degree of understanding that goes beyond mere comprehension. 2. Project Idea Proposal Form: A form for submitting your idea for a new WebQuest to be developed for next year. Your proposal needs to include the curriculum standards(s) you'll be addressing, a tentative topic, and the identification of a task type from the Taxonomy of WebQuest Tasks. Your idea may change during and after the Symposium, but it's critically important to come prepared with a starting point. ***Complete this form a week before your session begins!***   Other Useful Resources Matrix of WebQuest Examples: Examples of WebQuests by curriculum area and grade level; includes featured lessons. Many new examples have been posted since last Summer. Concept to Classroom: WebQuests: A new online workshop developed by WNET in New York. It provided a good review of the philosophy behind teaching with WebQuests and includes video footage of several SDUSD teachers!