Task

So, what's the correct way to design a WebQuest? The answer is, design it so that the teacher you've been working with will use your WebQuest with their classes. If they don't like the design, they probably won't use the WebQuest and everyone's time will have been wasted. That means you'll still want to use your communication network to it's fullest extent to make sure you're "on track" with a layout and design of which the teacher will approve.

It does take time, as you've already discovered, to communicate effectively. That is time well spent. Redoing an entire web site because it's unacceptable to the teacher will take a lot longer than the time you'll spend in any up-front communications.

Most professional web designers follow a system called ADDIE (or something similar to it) to create web sites. ADDIE stands for Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate. Look at of this §Web presentation by Jodi Reed outlining ADDIE. The "analyze" and "design" parts are extremely important but time-consuming activities in creating a web site.

Now for some good news. That's exactly the work you've been doing with the teacher throughout the WebQuest Planning branch of T-Spider.Net. So you're either close to finishing the "analyzing and designing" or you may now be finished with it altogether.

The teacher will "implement" when they have their students do the WebQuest and then "evaluate" it's success after their students complete the WebQuest. At that point, the teacher may ask you to make some changes to the site to make the WebQuest work better the next time they use it. These changes might be web page layout changes or they might be changes to the content of the web pages.

So your task is really just the "development" stage. You'll do this work with lots of feedback from your teacher.

To find out how to do this "development" stage of ADDIE, click on the "Process" button above to the left.

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