Peer Review of WebQuests

Peer Review:
Now is the time to take a few minutes to provide feedback on a classmate's webquest. This is not the time to say "It looks great!" or "I can't think of anything I'd change". Your task is to give specific feedback that will assist your classmate in improving his or her webquest.

Working with a partner, take 5 minutes to share the basic ideas behind your webquests. Then, open this feedback document and type your responses. (Remember, you'll have to right-click on the link and choose save as.) Make sure that you are giving more than yes or no responses. When you have completed your feedback, email a copy of your responses to your partner and save another copy in the dropbox - save the file as: firstinitial_lastname.doc

After you have completed the peer review, continue working on your project. Make sure to review the project description and to incorporate some of the suggestions from the peer feedback section. You may also want to use these two checklists to improve your webquest even more:

Fine Points - Little Things Make a Big Difference
Process Checklist

Remember that your final WebQuest is not due until Thursday, March 23. You will submit your final project electronically to the dropbox.

11:00 Class - Here is the text of the survey some of you will complete for the dissertation study. It will be a paper-based survey.

Sharing WebQuest Ideas

What ideas do you have for your WebQuest? How do you hook students with your introduction? What clip art could help make the introduction even more interesting? What questions do you have?

Last week we looked at the major components of the student portion of the WebQuest. Today, we'll spend a few minutes looking at the teacher portion.

Today you'll work on the first half of your WebQuest -- by Thursday's class it is expected that you will be at least halfway finished with your entire WebQuest. We will be working in pairs on Thursday to conduct peer reviews of your WebQuests.

Don't forget that you have many resources available to help you to complete your WebQuest.

• WebQuest Project Description - what's due when?
  
• WebQuest Taxonomy of Tasks - what types of tasks can you assign to students?
  
• The Building Blocks of a WebQuest - what are the specific parts of a WebQuest?
• The WebQuest Design Process - what is a good way to put together a WebQuest?
• Sample WebQuests
  

9:30 class:
Make sure to click "Submit" each time you finish a section of your WebQuest or your information will be deleted. It is strongly recommended that you type large blocks of text in Word and then copy/paste them into your QuestGarden template.


11:00 class:
If you have created other Word documents that you would like to link to your webquest page -- do the following:
1. Save the document as a web page in your portfolio folder
2. Open your webquest page
3. Highlight the text on your webquest page that you want to serve as the link to your new document
4. Go to File>Insert Hyperlink
5. In the window that opens up - select the "Document" tab
6. Click the "Select" button and browse for your document.