Webquest no facebook: uma experiência no curso técnico em guia de turismo do IFS usando uma rede social como ambiente de ensino-aprendizagem on line

This paper reports an experience on teaching the design, implementation and development of a WebQuest using Facebook as hosting online environment in order to enhance the teachinglearning process. The experiment was conducted in the period from 2011 to 2013 in a discipline of Technical Course in Tourism Guide Federal Institute of Sergipe - IFS. Methodologically, we opted for a qualitative research guided the case study, using as instruments to produce data to theoretical discussion of the categories of support to the object of study, application and interpretation of questionnaires, implementation and monitoring of the experiment and techniques observation. Thus, after the lifting of the theoretical categories of study, we identified the social profile, professional and cyberculture research subjects, then created a tutorial for hosting and developing WebQuests on Facebook, subsequently elaborated a WebQuest can provide information covered in the discipline of the course in question and to be hosted and enforceable by the social network Facebook. During the activities can be seen that, as provided in the proposed components of the WebQuest, the teacher and the learners, using media texts, photos and videos, researched, selected, published and discussed various information about the historical, cultural, geographical and the main natural routes and tourist attractions in Brazil. The survey results reveal that the WebQuest is a strategic approach to training professional Tourist Guide and your hosting and development on Facebook to become a powerful tool for research and production of meaningful knowledge, which leads to the practice of autonomous learning and collaborative. ; Este trabalho relata uma experiência pedagógica sobre a elaboração, aplicação e o desenvolvimento de uma WebQuest usando o Facebook como ambiente on line de hospedagem a fim de potencializar o processo ensino-aprendizagem. O experimento foi desenvolvido no período de 2011 a 2013 em uma disciplina do Curso Técnico em Guia de Turismo do ...