Team Rankings

Best- Shakespeare
2nd- Earthquake Damage Prevention

Worst- Waves and Sounds
2nd- Foreign Country

When reviewing three specific perspectives of each WebQuest, my team based the worst and best in relation to the degree of satisfaction in each perspective. For example, a team member suggested the Gorilla website as being the 2nd worst for time management, but ultimately decided the remaining two perspectives (higher order thinking and collaboration) of the Foreign Country assignment lowered the efficiency of this Webquest in relation to the Gorilla website.

Group Comments:
Shakespeare's collaboration was phenomenal! Each project required the ultimate team effort. The students are going to be forced to express an opinion in the creation of the play and will have to effectively work as a group in order to produce an entertaining scene. The creation of the scene requires the use of prior knowledge of MacBeth and to apply it to the scene, which satisfies the altudinist's perspective. The time police believes that there is a good "bang for the buck", meaning an excess amount of knowledge will be gained over the duration of each project.

Earthquake- The Webquest is very structured. The materials are listed and provided, so the project will quickly come together. Jaime Ford, the altudinist, believes that the limitations on the type and amount of resources used to create an earthquake enduring structure is an application to a situation we constantly contemplate in a real world dilemma. The collaboration is obvious in this project because the teams are constantly going to be working together. Designing and discussing ideas is just one example of the collaboration aspect of this project.

Waves and Sound- My group unanimously agrees the website is disorganized and hard to follow. The goals are hard to find, the teamwork requirement is not evident, and it seems like a lot of time could be wasting deciphering the purpose of the webquest.

Foreign Country- Overall, the project didn't seem to have strategies as strong as the other projects, including the Gorilla Webquest. A competitive atmosphere drives the collaboration factor in this assignment.