Lisa Cheby

Efficiency Expert

Kathy Gayer

Affiliator

Sam Koskela

Altitudinist

Raphael Lieberman

Technophile

WebQuest

Strengths

Weaknesses

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

-         Lots of hands on applications and high level computation skill required;

-         Requires managing different worksheets;

-          Requires group work for research, collaboration, findings;

-          Navigation points throughout;

-          Clear objectives;

-          Good tasks, well-defined for relevant field (e.g., economics).

-         Outside resources might be unrealistic expectation for student;

-         Not visually or technologically stimulating;

-         Worksheets 1 & 2 require solo work for calculations;

-          Calculating requires solo work, also worksheets;

-          Multiple links to same worksheet;

-          15-20 min. presentation seems long;

-          Busy backgrounds; too much text.

Gallery of Art-i-Facts

-         Very dynamic, interesting;

-         Excellent use of glossary and resources to enrich learning;

-         Good, clean layout; navigation is well thought-out;

-         Enables teamwork for sharing information, presentation and rubric;

-         Includes valuable elements of social art history and understanding

-         May need more links so students don’t miss segments;

-          Might overwhelm students with complexity of resources;

-          Roles are assigned, rather than chosen, may be frustrating;

-          May be too complex for some students;

Conflict Yellowstone Wolves

-         Clear instructions; involves group work;

-         Image-oriented, interactive;

-         Includes group-work for editorial, joint decision-making;

-         Clear instructions.

-         Many links are dead or unavailable;

-         Subject matter could be inaccessible for inner-city youth;

-          Workload may not be equal for all members;

-         Top-mounted menu hinders navigation.

The Gilded Age

-         Requires high level of technological skill and analysis; requires PowerPoint presentation;

-         by requiring construction of a power point presentation;

-         Guided group roles effectively break up responsibility;

-         Group work creates documentary;

-         Collaboration enhances communication skills;

Plethora of interesting resources

Overall a fascinating part of American history with lots of resources and thought provoking questions posed, but…

-         Technological requirements may be beyond students without a great deal of preparation;

-         Too many steps, too many resources, too complicated;

-         Most work done by lead historian;

-         Many technical skills needed for documentary.

Extra, Extra!

-         Exceptionally interesting role-playing concepts;

-         Exciting, interesting resources;

-         Clear, specific roles;

-          Group decides on positions, presentation; encourages sharing.

-         May create different workloads;

-          Evaluation sheet is a little unclear compared to rest of materials;

-          Concept of role playing may be above students’ heads;

-          Graphics and layout a little off-putting;

-          Bottom-mounted menu is cumbersome.