Hi Class!
This is a great website that helps consumers evaluate products or websites they are going to use before they use them. I liked this website for the fact that it looked at all aspects of the product at hand. It discussed the product’s accuracy, appropriateness, and the scope. It also looked at the technical aspects of the product, which included navigation, save/record-keeping features, and quality. It also stated whether or not the price of the product, if it was a product, was reasonable or not. The links offered in the website are also valuable resources for people who want to learn more about technology. One website I liked in particular was the Children’s Software Evaluation Instrument website. This website included information about ratings of particular software as well as a checklist for quality.
This website and the links to the other websites are a great resource for teachers. I, myself, don’t know exactly what to look for when purchasing certain things or when visiting certain websites. The fact is, quality and accuracy, is much more important than the quantity of a website or service that is offered. Our students are very valuable and this is why I think it’s important to take the time to evaluate things before we use them in our classroom. The more teachers who know about websites like these the more students we will have that can benefit from them. When I become a teacher I can use this website as a tool to learn more about products and I will be able to evaluate their effectiveness for use in my own classroom.
3 comments:
I agree, I thought that this was a great website. It had tons of great information about products teachers can use for their classes! I also believe that if teachers can benefit from this information, students will also!!
Lastly, thanks for being one of the few who actually post before 11pm on Tuesday night, it makes it so much easier for me to post my blog over the weekend, and respond to two others around the same time!!!
I also think this is a great website. I had not thought about the use of the website by people, other than teachers, who just want to learn more about technology. I could definitely use a website like this for personal use...
Hello Tiffany, I agree that this webstite is a great tool for those people that want to incorporate techonoly into their classrooms. It is a way to see whether the technology that they will purchased will be useful or not. At the same, it was a way to see whether the techonology we want to use is appropiate for the students we might be working with.
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