Firsty I want to thank John for the link in this week's discussion that led me to this webquest. Gracias. :)
Website Evaluation: Transform Your City
URL: http://home.comcast.net/~battla44/Bogota2015/webquest.htm
For: upper elementary or middle school students
Subjects: social studies, language arts, foreign language, technology, or enrichment classes
The purpose of this webquest is to guide students to discover their city’s past, explore its present strengths and needs, and to create a plan to make improvements for the city’s future.
The webquest is well-organized. It has clear steps and requirements. The task is interesting and engaging.
The webquest offers many resources that the students might need while completing the tasks. It has links to several external documents. These include:
1) a fact-finder sheet to help them organize research and keep track of sources
2) a needs assessment sheet
3) an outline for the presentation
4) rubrics for the research, the booklet (written product), and the presentation
If one were able to create additional external documents and edit the existing rubrics it could be used for a Foreign Language class to practice writing, vocabulary about cities, or the future tense.
The webquest does not offer specific practice or feedback for any language goals.
The strengths of this webquest are that it is well-organized, it offers clear description of tasks, and clear steps to follow.
One area to improve is in the task description for creating a booklet. In each step it says, “click here for an example,” but there are no examples.
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4 comments:
Hi Eric, I like this webquest. It's a really interesting project for middle schoolers. I like the appearance. I think the designer uses colors well, and he actually included a page for the teachers.
Hi Eric,
I'd never seen a fully bi-lingual webquest like this one. It's colorful, and easy to use. And, I think it could extend easily to older students, including university--especially ESL.
Mary
Eric,
What a fabulous webquest. I really loved the idea of the whole lesson. I am just wondering a lot about the technology behind these webquests. How do they get the work that they have on the each page? Then how are you able to go back and fourth between pages? I really enjoyed the lesson. Do you find these on your own mostly or through regular websearches.
Victoria
Victoria,
I found this webquest via a source John mentioned in teh class discussion. I wish I would have linked it for you in my blog posting. I just looked back through our class discussion quickly and didn't find it right away. I'll look again.
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