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Web-Site Evaluation: Guidelines
Goals:
The web-site evaluation and report activity is aimed at increasing your
awareness of the assets and limitations of current web-delivered instuctional
practices; giving you ideas for your final project; and providing you with
and oppor tunity to share your research experience with your classmates.
Explore:
During the next three weeks, you will explore a number of online courses
and FL instructional exercises, and you will assess them in terms of:
- content educational value,
- design qualities,
- technical qualities, and
- effective use of communication tools
You will use two sources of information for your exploration:
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Critique
Online Courses
Look at five sites from the World of Lecture Hall and select two of
them for your review. The selected sites have to include the following:
syllabus, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, and students'
projects.
Review the sites you selected according to the following criteria
CRITERIA
Content educational value:
| 1. Activities for teaching/learning
2. Local community-based
3. Examples of student work
4. Shares evaluation methods
5. Aligned with standards
6. Project-based learning |
7. Offers replicable model
8. Organization/synthesis of online resources
9. Invites participation in projects
10 . Supports ongoing collaboration & discussion
11. Useful resources for downloading
12. Helpful pointers to other locations |
Design qualities
| 1. Information in a page easily accessible.
2. Essential instructions appear before links and interactive portions.
3. Using the site is intuitive.
4. Access to relevant site documents require few mouse clicks.
5. Graphics and art serve a function. |
6. Icons clearly represent what they are intended for.
7. The text follow basic rules of grammar, spelling and composition.
8. The text size and color make the reading of documents difficult.
9. The text can stand alone for use in text-only Web browsers as well
as in multimedia browsers. |
Technical qualities
| 1. The document take too long to load.
2. All the parts work
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3. It is usually possible to reach the site.
4. The site is open to everyone on the Web
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Effective use of communication tools
| Use of communication tools allows the interaction:
- among students,
- between instructor and students, and
- between students and resources.
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JS-Powered Online FL Web Sites
Look at five of the sites included on the JS-Powered
list and select two of them for your review. Review the included
exercises and complete a card with the following information:
| URL:
Exercise type: (cf., fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, etc)
Objectives: (cf., very clear, clear, confusing, not stated)
Instructions: (cf., very clear, clear, confusing)
- Value: (cf., very relevant/relevant/ irrelevant to the learning of
a given topic or the practice of a given skill)
Reusability: (cf., I would be able to create a similar excercise for
use in my classes) |
Comments:
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Report
Schedule presentation for sharing sites and evaluations with students
in the class (please bring printouts).
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