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Site Review Project Home Page
Identification
of Standards
Web
Resources
Evaluating
Web Resources
Publishing
Your Findings
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The Web Site Review Process
This web site is designed to help educators and administrators evaluate web resources for use in the classroom.
There are minimally five steps in evaluating web sites for use in the curriculum. This outline is constructed to help guide you through the process.
- Identification
of Standards or Objectives.
- Teachers choose their objectives from District Curriculum Guides.
- Teachers use state or national standards or
objectives that are searchable on the Internet.
- Specific Links for SACS schools.
- If you have questions on implementing Standards-based education, a good on-line resource to start with is found at Content Knowledge.
- A general site that links home pages of state departments of education with Curriculum Standards .
- Choose a Means of Delivery. The most appropriate means for delivering the instruction is left to the discretion of the professional educator. Options include, but are not limited to, lecture, paper and pencil, manipulatives, computers or the Internet. While there can be good, technical connections to most lessons, not all lessons can or should be best taught using Internet resources.
- Finding the Web Resources. If one chooses Web Sites and the Internet as the most appropriate means of delivering the content, then it is necessary to search for resources and evaluate the web sites.
- Evaluating Web Resources Not all web resources are created equal. Some are content-driven, and some are smoke and mirrors. Some are hard to use, and some are too slow to download consistently. Further, some resources may be great for middle school students but totally inappropriate for grade school students. As is the case in similar situations, the process is smoother if one has a checklist, guide, or rubric to use. Rubric for Evaluating Resources
- Publishing
Your Findings. Evaluating web resources is a
time-consuming job, so much so that many teachers do not
have the time to adequately spend the hours necessary to
properly dig into and evaluate web resources fully.
Wouldn't it be great if someone else had already done the
work? With the web changing all the time, this is an
unbelievable task. One person, or even 10 full-time
people, could not do it, but, utilizing the 1,000 Points
of Light concept, we can all chip in and do it. If
everyone that finds this database useful would just do
three or four evaluations, we would soon have hundreds
and then thousands of web sites. Professional educators
would have done all these evaluations, and they would
have been looking at specific standards and a specific
grade level. To support this concept, there is a database
just waiting for your input. The site for this is being
provided free of charge by First Internet Alliance of
Columbus, Georgia. If you want to check out the site,
click here now. Web
Site Evaluations The password for a guest login which
will allow you to browse, is as follows:
- Login Name: guest
- Password: guest
