Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Grow School Greens	There are lots of clickable links. The pages are bright and colorful and there are many pictures and animations	No observable weaknesses.
Where is My Hero?	Good use of real world photos Each hero has a clickable link into an external website	Even though there are extra sources, this doesn’t give students a chance to explore the internet themselves; everything is laid out for them.
Underground Railroad	Good amount of external links for research. Some good pictures.	The site wasn’t very eye catching or colorful. Printable organizers don’t give the students any opportunity to incorporate technology. The evaluation isn’t very useful when it comes to incorporating technology and there is no opportunity for self-evaluation.
Ice Cream	The page is colorful	There are no links to external websites. Everything must be printed and completed, there are no online based activities The final poster is not completed with the aid of technology. There doesn’t even seem to be a reason to have this website, the teacher could simply print out the worksheets and tell their students what to do.
Ancient Egypt	Teaches students how to collaborate two different computer programs to create a project. Many external links for research. Everything is web-based The website itself is easy to navigate.	No observable weaknesses

I believe the two best web quests are the "Ancient Egypt" and the "Growing School Greens". I think this because they both encorporate technology in a way to help students learn something new while still creating the atmosphere of fun. Both of these sites were colorful and had plenty of examples and external links.

I believe the two worst web quests are the "Underground Railroad" and the "Ice Cream" quests. These web quest sites were not well put together and used very little web-based technology to acomplish the task. There were not many pictures and the projects could have been done without the use of a computer at all.

To me, the best web quests are ones that appropriately use the internet and technology available to engadge the students into doing something they wouldn't normally without the aid of a computer. Good web quests are ones that are eye catching, have many pictures, and have lots of external links to help the students learn web-based research skills. The worst web quests are ones that dont't use technology and could be done in the classroom without the aid of a computer.

Group Choices:

2 Best: "Ancient Egypt" & "Grow School Greens"

2 Worst: "Where is my Hero" & "Underground Railroad"