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WebQuest:	Overview Web Quest Sample Evaluations Evaluation Web Sites
Web Resources:	Web Page Design Issues Assignment Summary

Overview

Clear evaluation criteria will help your students improve their projects. They will know what is expected of them. This week you will focus on the evaluation section of your WebQuest. Your goal is to develop the evaluation checklist rubric you will use to evaluate your student's work. Also this week you will explore some of the design issues regarding web pages.

Web Quest Sample Evaluations

Here are some sample WebQuests along with links to their evaluation sections. Keep in mind, the more detail you can provide in the evaluation rubric, the more useful it will be, to you, to the student, and to other teachers that may use your WebQuest.

• fARMqUEST and Evaluation Section (Primary)
  A rubric may not be useful for distribution to primary students. This Web Quest proposes to have the students develop their own rubric. You should still, maybe in the teachers section, describe a sample rubric.
• Hello Dolly and Oral Report Rubric (Middle/High School)
  Here the rubric is more of a checklist with point values. Students may be unsure what determines the quality judgment in each category.
• DNA for Dinner? and Rubric (Middle/High School)
  This rubric give different levels for each criteria category. If students read the rubric they will know what distinguishes an average project from a great one.

Evaluation Web Sites

Here are some WebQuest sites that you may find useful. You have looked at some of these sites in previous lessons, but this time focus on evaluation.

• WebQuest web site at San Diego State University
  and Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests
• A WebQuest About Building WebQuests
  by Patti Albaugh, Ph.D., Otterbein College
• WebQuest Links by Douglas Zauha, ESU 3 in Nebraska
• Customized Evaluation Checklists
• Sample Evaluation Rubrics
• Sample WebQuest Evaluation
• Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric

Web Page Design Issues

Your main focus is to complete the WebQuest project. If you are new to web page construction, it may be enough just to get the basic WebQuest template filled out with a minimum number of graphics only where absolutely needed. By all means, concentrate on getting the ideas onto the web page first!

The following links have been included for those people want to make their pages more functional and attractive. Some important tips include:

• Keep your graphics small so your pages load faster,
  if a large graphic is needed put it on page by itself
  and have a thumbnail link or text link to it.
• Keep the animated graphics to a minimum,
  motion on the page will distract the reader.
• Use background colors and images carefully
  so they do not make your text hard to read.

It is very tempting to want to include all the bells and whistles available in HTML, but be careful or your WebQuest may end up here.

If you want more information about web page design you can explore the following sites.

• Harvard University Library
  Web Design Workshop
  • Whole Site Design
  • Page Design
  • Color and Graphics

• Web Design Group
  • Design Elements
  • Document Style

• Web Style Guide
  • Graphics
  • Tables

• Introduction to Web Page Design
  Design topics and HTML reference
  • Limiting Image Size
  • Browser Safe Colors
  • Basic Tables
  • Table in a Table

• Web Page Design
  Check out the "Do's and Don'ts" at the bottom of each page

Assignment Summary

1. Develop the evaluation rubric for your WebQuest
2. Update your WebQuest template with the evaluation rubric
3. Explore some of the web page design issues
4. Review your WebQuest template in regard to design issues
5. Upload your updated WebQuest template to the class web site