We also looked at some educational websites and looked at some website evaluations. While looking over the evaluations I personally liked the Kathy Schrock guide. It is made especially for teachers and you can even choose the level of education that you are teaching at. It was clear and concise in the website questions. All of the questions were yes or no questions which is always nice. I liked the question asking if the spelling was correct on the page. It is a huge pet peeve of mine when things are spelt incorrectly when something is supposed to be professional.
I evaluated the Smithsonian website. I thought it was really good. I used the Kathy Schrock guide, and answered all the questions with positive answers toward the website. I also did the Wave on the Smithsonian website, and it didn't find ANY areas in the entire website, which I found pretty amazing. This was a good activity to see which websites will be good for our future classrooms!
I like the Kathy Schrock guide. I think that when I start teaching I will print it out and laminate it so I can use a whiteboard marker to go through the check list. Then I can clean it and evaluate another website.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you like my evaluation tool, and a great idea about laminating and re-using, but I hope you have an interactive whiteboard and projector in your classroom so you can save it digitally. (Although you can always take a digital photo of the handwritten one, too!
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