Evaluation

You're really doing great! By now, you've probably finished constructing your WebQuest. Now would be a good time to evaluate the web site. There are four ways you should do this.

The first is to show your completed web site to the teacher on your team. This person is your best source of information on the quality of the site--after all, they have to use it. Hopefully you've been showing her or him the site all the way along, but seeing it in finished form sometimes brings a different perception. The teacher will eventually use the WebQuest with their classes. After that, they may have more suggestions for improvement. Be sure you keep all of your paperwork, notes, storyboards and original computer files. These will come in handy if you have to make changes to the site later on.

Another, more personal, way to evaluate is to write a short reflection paper. Include what you learned about WebQuest and web site design. Also include ideas you might have for making the web site better. If the teacher comes up with changes to do later on, you might be able to include some of your own ideas as well.

For the third way to evaluate your web site, the whole team should get together and evaluate the WebQuest using Dr. Dodge's §evaluation rubric. This will give you information about the potential effectiveness of the WebQuest as a classroom activity. This tool doesn't give that much information about the effectiveness of your web site design and layout however.

To accomplish this, evaluate your web site a fourth way based on the "critical characteristics of the perfect web site." Remember the §Design Grid you created? Your skills at developing web pages are much improved over what they were when you built the grid, but examining your site with the grid in mind might reveal some ways to make it even better.

Now that you're satisfied that your WebQuest web site is the world's greatest, what do you do with it? Find out by clicking on the "Conclusion" button above on the left.

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