WebQuest Evaluations

Altitudinist

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Grow School Greens	Requires students to research and synthesize information Allows for students to be creative in coming up with ideas and in presenting them Students will have to take a stance on whether or not they think this project is worth while
Where is My Hero?	The Students create a poster dealing with the facts they’ve learned	Students will be required to focus on biographical facts Students do not have much creative allowance in coming up with their definition of a hero Students much select from pre-chosen list of heroes Students have to recall facts about the heroes
Underground Railroad	Requires students to do extensive research and to formulate their own opinion and thoughts then present them. Students have to synthesize all of their information based on their roll and formulate how they would respond. Students are exposed to multiple perspectives when sharing with their group members Instead of just memorizing names and facts, students must read information and determine what it means and how it would have affected the people and the world
Ice Cream	Students get to be creative in the design, advertisement, and flavor of the ice cream	Students will have to memorize process of making ice cream
Ancient Egypt	The students get to be creative in designing the brochure. The students will read about their topics and decide what is important and what should be included	The students do not get to come up with their own topic for the brochure The students are required to look up a certain number of facts and repeat them on the brochure as opposed to forming opinions on what they’ve read.

I think the two best WebQuests are Grow School Greens and Underground Railroad. Both of these require the students to be creative and put their own personality into the projects. Also, the students will look up factual information, but they have to determine what this information means and how it effects the project.

I think the worst two WebQuests are Ancient Egypt and Where is My Hero. Where is My Hero was much too structured. The students were not able to pick their own hero nor were they allowed to come up with their own definition of what a hero is. Ancient Egypt did not allow students enough freedom in what to research about Egypt. Also, the students were required to find a certain number of facts and copy them to their brochures.

As the Altittudinist, the best WebQuests to me allows the students to be creative in their discovery and processing of information. They should have to do more than just read and repeat facts. They should have to find the information and process it, develop their own ideas and opinions about the information, and be able to present or discuss these views. The worst were the ones the just required to students to find information and regurgitate it. They did not require students to analyze the information they found or to critically think about the problem or the issue.

Our groups top and worst WebQuests:
Top: Grow School Greens, Ancient Egypt
Worst: Where is My Hero?, Underground Railroad