WebQuests Worksheet

Your Role

___Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

___Altitudinist

_X_Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Gorillas	Good external links and images were well sized.	Teacher pages were not completed. Font color choices did not make sense- (hard to follow on the process page.)
Shakespeare	Very good formatting and information organization. Had many good external links and images. The only site to have completed teacher pages (including images and lnks).	Images used are very small.
Earthquake	Easy to follow formatting. Good color choices.	no multimedia on the teacher page.(plain)
Foreign Country	Using maps was a good idea for the topic.	Teacher pages were not completed. Same images used over and over. Font color made everything seem jumbled together. Very few links. Weak formatting.
Waves & Sound	Good use of images to match content. Good use of external links.	Teacher pages were not completed. Font was small and hard to read.

As a group, we felt the two strongest WebQuests were Shakespeare and Foreign Country. We agreed a few tweaks needed to be made for a unanimous decision.  The Shakespeare one needs to have less assignments required, perhaps by assigning certain tasks to certain groups or giving students the choice of certain tasks.  The Foreign Country one needs to incorporate collaboration and better web formatting.  If these easy fixes are made, we feel they will be the best lesson opportunities because they are comprehensive and encourage collaboration, creativity, and self discovery.
We felt that Eathquakes and Gorillas were just "okay" projects.  They both met good learning criteria, but were plain, boring, and needed a lot of work to make students inspired and engaged. The websites reflected this mediocrity.
We unanimously agreed that the Waves and Sound project was the worst.  It felt very rigid, as if it were copied from an old standard textbook.  It did not inspire students or engage them in creative or technological ways, and the website reflected this.