WEEK 8 REFLECTION

Educational website. I realize that, there are so many educational websites in the internet. Those websites are very useful for the students in order to gain more knowledge. Are those websites meet the standard requirement to be use as academic purposes. So that, in order to have a good educational site, we should have a checklist rubric in order to design a learning website.

In this lecture, we were introduced to the usage of software evaluation rubrics which researched and developed by Kristin Miller and Jacqueline Bach, SAS in School Interns.

The rubrics enable us to evaluate many aspects of a software or website for academic purposes.

Those aspects as listed below :

• instructional contents
• curriculum connections
• graphic and multimedia
• layout
• technical aspect
• adaptability and accessibility
• learner engagement and interactivity
• teacher and learner support material
• assessment
• age/grade level
• flexibility

It is important to ensure that the website is user-friendly and it is updated from time to time in order to provide latest information to the users. In addition, it is crucial to make sure that the sites are reliable to be use with the curriculum.