Collecting I really enjoyed all of the different types of collections you showed and I loved the Little Mermaid reference! A couple things I would consider adding to or revising on your WebQuest: -An objective: what is the purpose for this webquest? Why should students be invested? -Find Card Activity: I didn't understand what you want them to write on the card. Will you be explaining these instructions in person on Day 1? -Is there a way you could tie this into a social issue to give it more meaning? What makes collections important? What if we had no collections of art in museums? How would this affect the art world?
Around the World in 80 Minutes I love how you set up the importance of this project with your scenario at the beginning, and I think the twist that it took was fantastic! I like that there is a clear objective. Are there specific parts of the culture that you want students to focus on in their artwork? I couldn't get the hyperlinks to work on the pinned map, but I was interested to see what each city could hold. I really like your focus on learning from different cultures and allowing different cultures to impact the artist!
Self Exploration I really like the pictures that are scrolling across the homepage that gets students interested in the stereotype lesson that you are trying to teach. Just a technical thing…your font is really hard to read with that background. Since this is 9th grade, maybe students could look at some of the images from Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Me Softly" (although I would advise you to narrow the collection down to a few select images) as part of the gender stereotyping. At some point will you be discussing other examples of stereotyping? I'm just wondering if students will know enough about stereotypes to take it beyond gender/race.
Memory I really like your idea for your project. I like that it involves students having a conversation with someone of importance to them. Instead of just having students write open ended questions could they include a question or two that focuses their interviewee's memory on a social issue or an issue that helps them identify themselves? I really like the layout of your WebQuest, my only other suggestion would be to make your format more consistent. Some pages are text heavy and others have very few directions at all.
Water a Love Story While I like how interactive your WebQuest is, I'm not sure this is the most user friendly format (unless I'm using it wrong). While I liked that it was a big web I found it difficult to go back and forth from one piece of information to another. For example, if I wanted to see how your information about plastics killing ocean life related to the standards it required a lot of dragging and maneuvering.
I really enjoyed all of the different types of collections you showed and I loved the Little Mermaid reference! A couple things I would consider adding to or revising on your WebQuest:
-An objective: what is the purpose for this webquest? Why should students be invested?
-Find Card Activity: I didn't understand what you want them to write on the card. Will you be
explaining these instructions in person on Day 1?
-Is there a way you could tie this into a social issue to give it more meaning? What makes
collections important? What if we had no collections of art in museums? How would this affect the art world?
Around the World in 80 Minutes
I love how you set up the importance of this project with your scenario at the beginning, and I think the twist that it took was fantastic! I like that there is a clear objective. Are there specific parts of the culture that you want students to focus on in their artwork? I couldn't get the hyperlinks to work on the pinned map, but I was interested to see what each city could hold. I really like your focus on learning from different cultures and allowing different cultures to impact the artist!
Self Exploration
I really like the pictures that are scrolling across the homepage that gets students interested in the stereotype lesson that you are trying to teach. Just a technical thing…your font is really hard to read with that background. Since this is 9th grade, maybe students could look at some of the images from Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Me Softly" (although I would advise you to narrow the collection down to a few select images) as part of the gender stereotyping. At some point will you be discussing other examples of stereotyping? I'm just wondering if students will know enough about stereotypes to take it beyond gender/race.
Memory
I really like your idea for your project. I like that it involves students having a conversation with someone of importance to them. Instead of just having students write open ended questions could they include a question or two that focuses their interviewee's memory on a social issue or an issue that helps them identify themselves? I really like the layout of your WebQuest, my only other suggestion would be to make your format more consistent. Some pages are text heavy and others have very few directions at all.
Water a Love Story
While I like how interactive your WebQuest is, I'm not sure this is the most user friendly format (unless I'm using it wrong). While I liked that it was a big web I found it difficult to go back and forth from one piece of information to another. For example, if I wanted to see how your information about plastics killing ocean life related to the standards it required a lot of dragging and maneuvering.