WebQuest about WebQuest

Your Role

___Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

_X_Altitudinist

___Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Intolerance	Facts listed in intro, in the task we can choose our stance and evaluate based on who we are, Strongly based on facts, requires you to understand in great detail what is going on in order to complete the task at hand. Worst out of all, has the most cons and not organized as well as the others. Seems boring and students may be overwhelmed with an oral presentation and a paper.	Little to no creative aspects other than regurgitating other facts.  other than old-school research no technology involved.
Harlem Renaissance	Remains factual without being boring,involves reader to interact using podcasts and other means of technology to complete the task.	concentrates on teamwork strongly other than allowing the reader to expand their own higher level of thinking and overall feels like an easy assignment, too easy.
Rock & Roll	integration of movie maker and requires you to use your own creative mind to complete the task. Requires you to have a higher understanding between music and the events in history during the time, therefore, allowing the reader to obtain the "greater picture."	in the introduction there are no genuine facts, it contains more like an opinion rather than a sited fact.
Nixon/Kennedy Debates	Great utilization of facts during the time to allow you to understand completely the significance of the assignment. Focuses on technology of the time,TV and its role on the debates. Allows reader to choose their perspective on the events requiring a high level of creativity.	Although creativity is a huge aspect of this task most of the assignment is opinion, could use more research aspects.
World of Shakespeare	focuses on Shakespeare's artistic processes and requires you to have to use your own creative processes to place yourself into his era to have a higher understanding of the period. The plan is set up well to where you must to research.  Very successful, My Favorite! Multiple strengths and no weaknesses between the entire group.	none

Bernie Dodge, Department of Educational Technology, SDSU

WebQuests evaluated

The Efficiency Expert: You value time a great deal. You believe that too much time is wasted in today's classrooms on unfocused activity and learners not knowing what they should be doing at a given moment. To you, a good WebQuest is one that delivers the most learning bang for the buck. If it's a short, unambitious activity that teaches a small thing well, then you like it. If it's a longterm activity, it had better deliver a deep understanding of the topic it covers, in your view.

The Affiliator: To you, the best learning activities are those in which students learn to work together. WebQuests that force collaboration and create a need for discussion and consensus are the best in your view. If a WebQuest could be done by a student working alone, it leaves you cold.

The Altitudinist: Higher level thinking is everything to you. There's too much emphasis on factual recall in schools today. The only justification for bringing technology into schools is if it opens up the possibility that students will have to analyze information, synthesize multiple perspectives, and take a stance on the merits of something. You also value sites that allow for some creative expression on the part of the learner.

The Technophile: You love this internet thang. To you, the best WebQuest is one that makes the best use of the technology of the Web. If a WebQuest has attractive colors, animated gifs, and lots of links to interesting sites, you love it. If it makes minimal use of the Web, you'd rather use a worksheet.