The first project is a group project. Recent home pages have included such interesting ideas as second language spelling services, restaurants, travel agencies with regional descriptions, hotels, airlines, term paper writing services, used car sales and so on. What is required of each group project are not just visual items, but written text providing descriptions and general things related to their business, perhaps an exaggeration of what would expected in a real commercial home page. The second project is more academic related. Students are asked to investigate some topic of interest on the Internet and include their findings on an internal link on their home page.
Topics ranch from cultural comparisons to biological interests.
The topics are open and the students are to follow the guidelines set forth by the instructor. The number of possible home page projects is as great as one can imagine and are met with enthusiasm by the students. Evaluation Evaluation for a web-based course is subjective in nature. While no one clear theory or position on web-based course evaluation exists, it is clear that there are several main factors in need of consideration. As a web-based course does not follow a traditional writing course paradigm, more consideration needs to be given to the students production of none text related material, the index file, the home page map, photograph and general appearance of their text.