Emily Harman: WebQuest Worksheet

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.

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Grow School Greens	fun gifs, many links to help with the project.	very bright but not much variation in color
Where is My Hero?	Very colorful, Some really good and fun links.	Pictures good, but nothing that pops.
Underground Railroad	Links to some cool interactive sites, Very fun and unique way of teaching the subject matter.	Could have some better pictures to describe the railroad and those involved.
Ice Cream	Very bright and appealing to the eye, fun and lot of hands-on activities.	Some links didn't open.
Ancient Egypt	Did a good job of putting links to help explain the subject.	Not much color, not many activities outside of just reading the resources.

Bernie Dodge, Department of Educational Technology, SDSU

Which two of example WebQuests listed below are the best ones?

I think that the webquests about the ice cream and the underground railroad are the best.

Which two are the worst?

What do best and worst mean to you?

The best ones caught my attention just by looking at them, had good interactive links and fun, hand-on activities that I feel the students would enjoy. The worst were more plain to look at and seemed like they would have a more difficult time getting the students involved.

Group Discussion

All of us agreed that the Ancient Egypt webquest was the worst. It was least appealing to the eye, and seemed like it would not do a great job of keeping the students attention.
We all thought that the We All Scream For Ice Cream webquest was the best. It included some fun activities and did a good job of using what is found on the web to describe the tasks.

Emily Harman