WebQuests - Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Civilizations WebQuest - This webquest reviews the River Valley Civilizations 

1. Synopsis of the WebQuest including its intended audience, its educational goals, and the curriculum standards addressed if stated.  The intended audience for this WebQuest is a secondary level student in a World History class. It could also be used for a World Geography class. 
2. What pedagogical strategies are employed in the WebQuest and are they effective? Is there use of metaphor? Are they using inductive or deductive strategies? Is there scaffolding? What other strategies do you see?   The students are required to analyze events and "decide what makes an event significant in history." These events are then added to a timeline the students are creating. This WebQuest seems to be using both inductive and deducting strategies   The students must deduce the order of events on the timeline. However they must also inductively decide what events are important enough to add to the timeline.  All the while this is producing a scaffolding for the later description of each event and their personal reflection.  
3. In what ways is the WebQuest taking advantage of technology? In what ways is it 'change without difference'? Could this WebQuest be done just as well by photocopying pages and handing them out to students? The students are required to post their timeline online, the internet is being used for research as well as the discovery of pictures and videos.  The WebQuest could be done just as well with photocopying pages and handing them to students.  If necessary it can be done but I don't think it will be to the benefit of the learner to be done in the manner.  There are several links for each region which provides the students with options for sources.  If all of this information were to be printed out no student would want to go near it because the packet along would be too overwhelming.  
4. Technically, does it work? Does it have bugs or flaws such as broken links or images? Is the material out of date? Does it credit its sources? I didn't find any broken links for missing images.  The material doesn't seem out of date.  It was created in 2009 and we are talking about history that is thousands of years old.  The only way it can be out of date is if we discovered that aliens created the early civilizations.  The site does credit its sources.  
5. How would you improve the WebQuest? I would have the links open up into new pages. As soon as you clicked a research link you lost the instructions.