Website Evaluations

Today, we found some educational websites and then evaluated them. We used 4 different evaluation sheets to find which website we liked best as well as to see which evaluation form was best. Some of the evaluation forms asked yes or no questions and if there were more yeses, then the website was most likely a good website. However, the form that I preferred over the others had yes or no questions, but then it had a judging system on numbers. (on a scale from 0-4...) I preferred this evaluation form because it used my opinion rather than just yes or no. Some of my answers seemed like they would be more of a maybe answer. With this evaluation, if I wanted to have a maybe, I would put 2-3 instead of absolute yes or absolute no. These evaluation forms are very helpful when looking at the websites because I could look for things like the source being reliable and other things that I wouldn't normally think of looking for. I think if I were just looking for a website for ideas, I wouldn't use a formal evaluation; however, if I were having my students directly on the site, I think that I would use a formal evaluation in order to make sure that I had checked out everything. I would hate to put my students on a site that wasn't going to benefit them or even tell them inaccuracies.