Teach yourself how to think critically about Wolrd Wide Web resources.

A categorized, annotated list of over 2000 sites to help educators, teachers, and parents enhance instruction and support the curriculum.

I.Q., or Information Quality, teaches researchers how to evaluate information they find on the Internet for accuracy, authority, timeliness, and objectivity. ...

Initiatives in education and medical research include Teacher Advancement Program, Educator Awards, National Education Conference, prostate cancer research (CaP CURE), Education Technology, Festival for Youth ...

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library Information Quality WWW Virtual Library The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources Established: 15 Mar 1996. Last updated: 23 Apr 2002. Dr T.Matthew Ciolek and Irena M. Goltz igoltz@hotmail.com This set of pages keeps track of online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked ...

Login | register search advanced search CA: SABE/2 STAR Summary Reports Online. (8/15/01) CELDT documentation available for downloading. The No Child Left Behind Act What it means for you. California Selects CTB's CAT/6 for State Testing Program The California State Board of Education has designated CTB's California Achievement Tests, Sixth Edition (CAT/6) as the new normative test for the ...

Evaluating Quality on the Net by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts May 30, 2000 version. It was originally created in 1995 with the title, Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet or Finding a Needle in a Haystack as a presentation delivered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...

Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.

Smith, Alastair G. Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8, no. 3 (1997). (Refereed Article) 1.0 Introduction Users of the Internet were initially impressed that they found useful information of any kind. However, now that anyone with access to a server and a passing knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) can ...

Network for the Evaluation of Training and Technology ABOUT US WHAT'S NEW NETWORK OBJECTIVES NETWORK MEMBERS CONFERENCE 2 0 0 1 CONFERENCE 2 0 0 0 BECOMING A MEMBER WORKING PAPERS CONTACT US TOP We provide evaluation and research services customized to the needs of education and training organizations. A partnership among 60 public, private, & non-profit organizations, and the Social Sciences ...

WWW CyberGuides The WWW CyberGuide Internet evaluation forms were developed by Karen McLachlan informally as a means of introducing the World Wide Web to novice users in 1996. Since then the Guides have been published in a book, on the Internet, and referenced in journal articles. They have been used in countless classrooms and professional in-service programs. Due to the evolvement of Web ...

Learning With Technology Profile Tool This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. For each category, there is a description of the indicators and examples that fall along a continuum. There are three examples for each indicator. Select the example that best describes your current ...

Introduction Why Evaluate Evaluation Criteria Exemplary Practices Readings & Resources Introduction The net is like a huge vandalized library. Someone has destroyed the catalog and removed the front matter, indexes, etc. from hundreds of thousands of books and torn and scattered what remains... Surfing is the process of sifting through this disorganized mess in the hope of coming across some ...

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Vol.8, No. 8 Sept. 2000 FEATURE Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation by Paul S. Piper, Librarian, Western Washington University James, an eighth grader at Bellair Middle School, was working at home on a paper due the next day. The paper was for the Martin Luther King Day Essay Contest. His teacher had emphasized coming up with something original. James had read through the ...

A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information and evaluating sites for educational content.

From Now On The Educational Technology Journal Vol 7|No 5|February|1998 Emerging from the Smog: Making Technology Assessment Work for Schools by Jamie McKenzie About the Author Introduction Why Assess Why Not How Resources Robust, ongoing authentic assessment of your technology initiative is critically important. Without a solid commitment to measuring how things are going, the program may ...

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The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals Reprinted with permission from the chapter entitled Professional Development for Science Education: A Critical and Immediate Challenge, by Susan Loucks-Horsley. National Standards & the Science Curriculum, edited by Rodger Bybee of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., ...

Nobody believes it's the quick-fix for America's K-12 ills Linda Roberts on the role of technology in the classroom By Heather Clopton SCR*TEC The administration's technology initiative is an initiative to improve education. It is an initiative that we believe will make it possible for more students to come closer to our goals of higher academic standards and the preparation of our students with ...

Searches on the web produce vast quantities of unevaluated information. This article suggests how to determine quality sources and how to find them faster.

A reprint from the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy in the Electronic Classroom department of the e-journal Reading Online ...

The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews and Announcement Database, articles from Technology & Learning Magazine, articles from Educators in Educators' Outlook, Events and Contests listings, Reader suggested Web sites, and weekly news updates on education technology leaders.

The Learning Materials Centre (LMC) produces a range of material, including: Online resources delivered via the internet Printed material Audio tapes Video tapes CD-Roms and computer disks The variety of learning material allows for the presentation of subjects using a medium that caters for the different learning styles and can introduce concepts in a context that enhances meaning.The LMC ...

NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program Project Evaluation The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is providing this evaluation instrument to the recipients of the States Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF) grants to help them evaluate their projects progress and impact. The intent is to provide an effective, yet ...

So where do we begin Before using any web site with students, you should make sure to thoroughly review it. In this tutorial, we will offer five essential considerations for you ponder before you use a web site with your students. ...

This article explains how to give your web page content the mark of quality. When people find your page among many listings in a search engine, how can you get them to single your page out from the others.

In this tutorial we'll walk you through the organizational process of creating a district web presence. This process is very time consuming and requires a dedicated staff. ...