BDodge Article

In Dodge's article he said that the only way to get better at doing webquests was to do more webquests. If this means making a lot of new ones or going back to older ones and updating them, then this is what you need to do to make better webquests. Also don't make webquests only to make a webquest, don't create an assignment using a website you designed to show your students and their parents what you can do with a website. Using a webquests should be a fun activity for your students that actually creates some genuine learning. With our webquest, I believe this is what we set out to do and I think we did a very good job with it. We took a simple concept, the Branches of the US Government, gave our students sites to go to to find answers to our questions and presented them with authentic and real life situations concerning the US Government. By presenting our students with scenarios that could actually happen in the real world, we hoped that this would illustrate to our students what their government does and what it can't do.
I think by including real life scenarios that required our students to think out solutions to the problems we posted, that the students will be more engaged in the activity. The only thing that I would want to change with our website would be to figure out how to make it look better. Thankfully, Dodge said not to get too worried about this and to focus on making your website functional and affective.

Reiser Article

What the article and the UEN website had in common was that these both relied heavily on technology and alternative methods of assessment. I don't know how effective, or relavant, using a telgram would be in a classroom, like the Reiser article suggested, but I guess it would be fun to incorporate with a younger classroom. The UEN site that I found that closely mirrored the Reiser article was the Under the Sea lesson. This lesson showed how you could center the instruction around the students. I really liked that the students got to design a newspaper article about the ocean.
I think designing a lesson using the Reiser article as your model would only work in moderation or with an exceptionally motivated class. I think that if you tried to do this method with every class you might run into the problem of some students not participating or falling behind. I don't think that you could do an entire two week lesson plan using this method, maybe one or two days.