The Math WebQuest Curse

The famous and dreadful Math Curse.

Critical Friend Rubric

Criteria	Accomplished (3)	Developing (2)	Beginning (1)	Score & Comments
Introduction	Engagingly describes a compelling question or problem.	A question or problem is described.	The purpose of the WebQuest is unclear.	3.) It has you excited and ready to work together.
Task	Task is doable and engaging, and is connected to learning in the real world. It elicits thinking that goes beyond rote comprehension.	The task is doable and elicits higher order thinking but is not relevant to students lives.	Task requires simply comprehending or retelling of information found on web pages and answering factual questions.	3.) This has good teamwork activity with  good learning of baseball history.
Process Checklist	Every step is clearly stated. Most students would know exactly where they are at each step of the process and know what to do next.	Some directions are given, but there is missing information. Students might be confused.	Every step is clearly stated. Most students would know exactly where they are at each step of the process and know what to do next.	3.) It gives good direction on what to do and how to do it in good step by step instructions.
Resources	There is a clear and meaningful connection between all the resources and the information needed for students to accomplish the task.	There is some connection between the resources and the information needed for students to accomplish the task. Some resources don't add anything new.	Resources provided are not sufficient for students to accomplish the task.	3.) There is plenty of good and reliable resources given.
Evaluation	Criteria for success are clearly stated in the form of a rubric. Criteria include qualitative as well as quantitative descriptors.	Criteria for success are clearly stated in the form of a rubric. Criteria include qualitative as well as quantitative descriptors.	Criteria for success are not described.	3.) It gives a good clear rubric for the kids to follow.
Visual Appeal	Appropriate and thematic graphic elements are used to make visual connections that contribute to the understanding of concepts, ideas and relationships.	Graphic elements sometimes, but not always, contribute to the understanding of concepts, ideas and relationships.	Color is garish and/or typographic variations are overused and legibility suffers. Background interferes with the readability.	2.) The visualization of this is good, but could use some more graphics to help with the visual connection from the pictures to the WebQuest.
Navigation	Navigation is seamless. It is always clear to the learner what all the pieces are and how to get to them.	There are a few places where the learner can get lost and not know where to go next.	There are more than 5 broken links, misplaced or missing images, badly sized tables, misspellings and/or grammatical errors.	3.) Everything is right there in front and to the point. There is no follow round and go here and there to find something.

WebQuest best/worst

Best Webquests--------World of Shakespeare and Anti-Earthquake
Best means being crative and being able to understand and follow instead of jumping here and there.
Worst Webquests------Foreign Country Presentation and Waves and Sound
Worst means very confusing not being able to follow or comprehend. Basically everything is unclear.

WebQuest The Efficiency Expert

"Saving the Gorillas": This is a good presentation and has good links, but the facts about gorillas are not cared for from most people.
"World of Shakespeare": Strong presention giving that there is many facts out there for Shakespeare. there are many links to find all the information I need. Depending on the age group it might be difficult to come up with a performance with the language he used..
"Anti-Earthquake Designer": This project would take a alot of time, which could be spent on more educational time, but I must say it has excellent groupwork with learnding.
"Foreign Country Presentation": There isnt't that much help with this project through the webquest. I also noticed the organizing is everywhere, but the learning of the different countries is a good learning experience.

"Waves and Sound": There is alot of detail about this project and very confuseing with the specific questions. The major thing is, is that you dont know what the teacher wants you to learn.

Txt N twitter

I think that 140 characters is plenty to say what you need to say. It also helps your friends so they dont have to read a whole novel to understand whats going on. I have not altered anythong on a post due to its length, because their is always plenty  of characters to say what i need to say. I think both have impacted the way we all write. When using texting or twitter we have came up with a new but short language when talking through these chat sessions. I will say this even "tho" we talk like "dis" when we "tweet" and "txt", when it comes down to it we always catch "urslevs" on an assignment.

Myself and how I learn..

I always knew I was a visual learner but a new one that I found out was a kinesthetic learner. A kinesthetic learner basically is someone who learnes by hands on approach, trial and error, and lectures who give good examples. I feel that the description of myself throught the survey is accurate to an extent.

Txt Poem

uv 2 giv respect 2 gt respect

treat othas hw ud wan2B treatd

u cnt leave the table til u eat all ur food.

An apple a dy keeps d dr awy

\_/ lots of OJ