WebQuests are valuable tools for incorporating technology in the classroom. They use media in a consistent format to set the stage for a project, guide students through it, and clearly outline how students will be evaluated on there work.
WebQuests allow for a great range of subjects and activities. The students get caught up in a virtual world to explore and then share there findings.
My experience has been that WebQuests that are best suited for your classroom are designed and implement by you and for your specific class in mind. However, this view was challenged some by looking through the http://webquest.org/index.php website. Many of these seemed designed to share with other classrooms. They were also linked to useful resources and had a lot of visual appeal. They had well defined objectives, and explanations. My experience with other WebQuests has been that they often have poor resource links to pages that no longer exist or were obviously never explored enough by the creator of the WebQuest. So, I think there is hope for using other peoples WebQuests given that you sift through them and make sure the links all work and lead to resources that not only give students the information that they are looking for but also are at the reading level of the given students. In the end though you may be better off creating your own WebQuest.
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