Thursday, 23 April 2009

Muse #10

This week we had our WebQuest presentation! Personally, I had mixed feelings about this group project. Why? Well I certainly enjoyed myself creating a website-based learning curriculum thing, brainstorming with my lovely group mates about how to make the WebQuest more interesting/colourful/engaging since it was targetted at lower primary students. We decided to give the WebQuest a name and structure it like some sort of story to make it more exciting than a normal boring "tell them all the facts" to-the-point type. Instead, we decided to get them to solve various activities and tasks in our very own self-created JunkHouse! :D

However the actual process of creating the WebQuest was too heavy and personally I found that the 10% did not justify the amount of effort and time put into it. Especially since this was an entirely new software to all of us, it took us some time to get used to it before we actually managed to start creating the actual thing. Thereafter, minor details here and there turned out to be very troublesome and time consuming to edit, causing many late nights and great frustrations. That's not to say that the project process was entirely unenjoyable. It was definitely an eye-opening experience learning a new software. Perhaps if we had been taught it earlier and given more time to experiment with it, and of course, a higher percentage of the grade allocated to it.

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