the webquest for my students

In my previous blog, I mentioned about creating a webquest for my Industrial Engineering students. As they are now having English 1 for their subject, I give them materials especially on English for industrial engineering field.
There are 31 students in my industrial engineering class. Most of them are senior high-school graduates with 12 years studying English since in the elementary school. English taught in schools are mostly grammar, vocabulary, and reading. There is little attention for listening and speaking. I have a feeling that if I use a conventional method of teaching such as lecturing, my students will get bored very easily as they had enough for 12 years of English from their teachers. And the reason why I create a webquest for them is to encourage and motivate them to study English in industrial engineering field as well as giving them creative ways for learning English.
First of all, I register myself to zunal (www.zunal.com) making my account in order that I can create webquest with some steps available at zunal. Then there is a template for us to be filled with own webquest. Webquest mostly contains title, introduction, task, process, evaluation, references, conclusion, and teacher's page. In the template, we must work step by step filling out parts of the webquest. For instance, I wrote "Branches of Engineering" for my title and add some descriptions on whom this webquest is for (children or adults), what field the topic is categorized (technology, language, arts, etc.), There is also a menu for uploading pictures, contents, and links that supports our topic.
The next step is to fill the introduction part. I wrote something for my students as if I give them choices on what engineering they're going to choose. Actually, this is just a prompt for them to get attracted with my webquest. I always put some links for them (Youtube video and articles on engineering) so that they can watch and browse the article. This can keep them interested with the topic.
Then, there is a task part. I wrote that students must do the task by reading the articles and watch the movies about notable engineers and their work on how to solve the world problems. I asked my students to get some inspiration from those engineers and then try to present some solutions on how to solve the problems in i.e. global warming, gree-house effect, pollution, etc. This task requires them to read extensively and then they must present their opinion in front of the class. This activity is intended fro them to read and speak more.
The process part tells students some steps on how to do the task. The steps are divided into some parts and ways on how they do the reading, watching movies, and presentation.
Unfortunately, I haven't finished with the evaluation part as I must do something else but I have shown this webquest to my students and asked them to do the task. I told them that I will mention the grading in the evaluation later on.
Well, I think I must stop now as I have a meeting to join. My campus is now busy with the accreditation and this event is very important for us to be recognized as a good university acknowledged by people in my country.
Thanks for reading and you can visit my webquest at www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=71216

Malang, 7 October 2010