WebQuests.....

First of all, I am extremely intrigued and smitten with this idea of Webquests. These seem like a great tool, that can reach many different learners in your classroom, especially in History, my discipline. By using the Internet for this activity and the interactive applications that you can choose to insert into your Webquest, seems ideal for differentiated instruction. For example, you can play to Visual-Spatial learners strengths by choosing website that are full of graphics and videos of the topic. Also, you can arrange the answers in a way that allows students an option to draw a map of their WebQuest journey. Moving on to logical-mathematical, of course websites with interactive math problems would be great, but for other disciplines pick websites that integrate puzzles and choose questions that promote logical reasoning for the students. For a verbal-linguistic learner, the reading of chosen primary documents online and the writing of their answers to the questions, will play to their strengths. Next, intrapersonal and interpersonal learners will love the idea of a Webquests, especially with the choice to work alone or in partners to accomplish the task. Students with a heavy emphasis in musical learning can also be utilized using Webquests, for example many websites use songs or raps to relay the historical information of certain eras or events. Lastly, Bodily-Kinesthetic learners, possibly the hardest learning style to accommodate when using computers, because of their need for activity. Therefore, teachers must keep this in mind and use stations when making the Webquest. For example, have the designated sites pulled up on separate computers and the students must switch in order to use all the sites.
Because, differentiated instruction poses large challenges for teachers, I think that using Webquests and other Internet tools are great for facilitating the gap in the difference of learners.