Educational Website Evaluation

Learning how to evaluate websites is very important. Through proper evaluations, you can determine whether or not the website(s) that you are using holds adequate information for your students. A lot of websites can be unreliable because they can be created by anyone and everything. Plus anything about anything can be put online. I think as teachers, we should also teach our students how to evaluate websites too--especially when citing/gathering information for research papers and projects.

I used the website called ReadWriteThink. For evaluation purposes, I used Berkeley Library and WAVE. It was created by IRA/NCTE in 2010. It's pretty recent. It benefits students and teachers in a variety of ways from interactive games and puzzles to links about learning and teaching with reading and writing for several different grades. It's really extensive with all of it's features--could come in real handy for lesson planning and research by teachers. I liked how the evaluating checklist--helped me to think about the purpose of and the information presented by the website. When I used WAVE to see what errors existed on the page, it only came up with 6; which aren't that big of a deal. That's pretty good odds.