When we set out to create a learning object, we kept in our minds an objective—to give our learners both a start and a spark for creating WebQuests. What emerged was as much a product of our own mentors' and teachers' guidance of us as it was our own work. We also benefitted greatly from the work of others who were willing to share their work and let us build upon it. We are returning in kind, allowing others to build upon ours.
Group Project
The assignment reminded us of how important it is to work together and how important it is to communicate effectively.
It’s much more manageable to divide the tasks evenly, according to our strengths and preferences.
We used email and Skype for the essential collaboration.
Instructional Design
The assignment reminded us that our module prototype should reflect the performance objectives.
We found that the key is determining the skills and subordinate skills to develop.
In addition, a major decision was determining that the WebQuest content was considered entry–level behavior (and therefore not taught in the module).
Technical Skills
The assignment gave us an opportunity to put a new tool into use: Dropbox.
This was helpful in the collaboration process.
In retrospect, one of the things that would have helped with us was an online document collaboration tool such as Google Docs,, because we couldn’t see revisions to the files right away.
Getting content to web pages was challenging at times.