Evaluation of Online Tools
Goals
School policies
Evaluating websites
Stating Do's and Don'ts
Making a website safe
Policies
Some institutions have clear how to regulate the use of technology while others are still in the process.
Benefits
Equal opportunities of having ICT
Compromise with digital literacy
Staff training
Improvement
Regulations
Follow the policies created not only by the governments
but the ones developed by the institutions as well.
Software Approach
Tools or programs to filter content
Practice Approach
Measures from the teacher
Teaching with
online materials
Do's
Stimulate critical thinking
Collaborative work
Enhances the teaching-learning process
Critical users
Appropriate citations
Don'ts
Deletion of material
No blind internet searchers
Internet just for retrieval
Evaluating
Websites
Criteria
Accuracy
Sponsors
Author, creator, developer
Reliable content?
Accurate linguistics
Currency
Content (up to date)
Copyright date
Last update
Author's information
Content
Interesting and stimulating
Pedagogical material
Teaching aim
Attractive and easy
Functionality
Works well?
Needs extra pluggings?