Week 12

http://questgarden.com/124/13/8/110420113448/

This is the link to my draft web quest.  I would appreciate some feedback on my rubric.  Also if you see any gaping grammatical errors please let me know!  Or if you notice I need something that I overlooked...

I thought this assignment was simple to do ~ it just took a lot of time to think it out and find the references I wanted. What worries me is that when I think something worth 400 points is simple,  that's most likely because I forgot something or didn't go far enough in depth.  I had the same problem in Loretta and Tim's summer class over the "tech manual" assignment...  I wish I had gotten some feedback on that one, cause I missed the boat on that assignment!

This is just a draft.  I plan to play with it for a week until it is due next Saturday.  I have not scored it myself yet. I will do that next week as well.

Thanks!

week 11

This week I am finishing the rest of my planning, task, and storyboard.  I am on spring break next week so I plan to do the creation on Monday and Tuesday.  I have also been working on my Web 2.0 lesson plan and reflection for the past two weeks and that project will end on Thursday.  I feel confident about the WQ and I don't have any concerns at this point.  I am looking at a cohort friend's WQ today and I'm sure I will want feedback on mine before I turn it in and more importantly, before my students use it.  My idea for my task is the discovery of a remote island and my students are to analyze the local government and compare/contrast it to our local Irvine government.  The process is performance based so students will have to find information about about Irvine to complete the task.  I have not decided how to have them display what they learned but it will probably be a visual display or graphic organizer (venn diagram).

Week 10

My goal this week is to look up and select the Social Studies standards that correlate with my local government.  After I do that, I plan to design the "introduction" and "task".  I already have some resources preselected and highlighted on a previous blog, but I expect I may want to add to it. 

I wonder if you are allowed to create your own resources and place them on the web. Then have students look at that as part of your process?  I would think so, although that would take more time and planning and may not be the most efficient way of doing this project...

I like the idea of using Ben's Guide to Government as another resource.  I would like about 4-5 resources for the students to work through to complete their task.