Website+Review+Directions

Purpose: To critically review a web site that includes some discussion/mention/focus on collaboration and schools or on effective collaboration. To make the review public by publishing it on a wiki.
**Description:** Your critical evaluation will respond to the question: Would you recommend the website, or part of this website, to colleagues who want to understand collaboration in schools or who want to suggestions for collaborating? If so, how is it useful? If not, why not? (In other words, as busy teachers, should we spend our precious time on this website if we want to know more about collaboration and want to implement it at our school?) You will use the following concepts to evaluate the website: Authority, accuracy, objectivity (or point of view), currency and coverage. In addition, you will give a descriptive overview of the website. **Due** May 25, 2010 by 4:30 pm **Directions:** Follow the steps below to complete your review. **Step 1:** Choose one of the following websites. [|www.autism-society.org]

[|www.dropoutprevention.org]

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[|http://www.nichcy.org]

[|www.nea.org]

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[|www.edutopia.org]

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**//__ Prewriting and Thinking __//** ** Step 2 ** Go to the website and preview it. Search for “collaboration” on the website. Read some of the information. Look at what other information is available on the website.

** Step 3 ** Choose one of the following guides to evaluating a website. Use the guide to evaluate the website. However, as you respond “yes” or “no” to questions, you will want to note the specifics. For example, if the question is “Is the website current?” You will check yes but also make a note—“written in 2005, updated in 2010” or “updated continuously.”

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** Step 4 ** Assess the website design and navigability: Is the site easy to understand? Easy to navigate?

**//__ Writing and Thinking __//** ** Step 5 ** Write a descriptive overview of the website.

** Step 6 ** Based on the information you collected in Steps 3 and 5, write a narrative evaluation of the website. Write one paragraph for each of the criteria—authority, accuracy, objectivity (POV), coverage, and currency. (The order is up to you.) Also include a paragraph on design and navigability.

** Step 7 ** Write your recommendation. Do you recommend this website? For what purpose? For whom? To use how?

** Step 8 ** Post your review as a new page to:

http://resources4collaboration2.wikispaces.com

How to post to the wiki

Find New Page under the Meredith logo Click on New Page

Name the page--using the website name as the page name Click on Edit this Page Paste your review Save

Please use for educational purposes, with attribution. Mary Kay Delaney, Ph.D. Meredith College Raleigh, NC