~ Stephen Hawking
While searching for the perfect webquest for use in my future classroom I viewed many webquests that had wonderful content but lacked the personal style I was hoping to include in my classroom. Finally I found a webquest that fit not only my subject area, but my own personal teaching style. I would be very willing to use the "Exploring Our Solar System" webquest that was created by Mrs. Laurel Anderson and located at http://users.zoominternet.net/~eanderson/webquest/index.html. The first thing that caught my attention was the backdrop and images. Once I started reading into the first page and saw the use of this teachers language I was very pleased with my find. The transition to the next page was wonderful "Blastoff!!!" with that word having a link to the following page. I prefer the multiple page structure for webquests over the original single page structure. This webquest provides a fun oriented structure and even gives the students roles in scientifically "fun" terms. Also I enjoyed that this webquest provided options for the students to pick which project they would want to use to present their findings. I did find one or two dead links but the important ones still worked. I would have loved to of seen the evaluation page include a link at the end of the sentence for the conclusion page. I think the conclusion page was worded in an attractive style that allowed the students to still have fun while winding down the task.
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