Tapped In Agenda: Thursday, April 26, 2001

7:20 Tapped In Assignments and Collaborative Activity

After that exciting face-to-face, we certainly hope you're ready to move into the last few weeks of the semester with renewed vigor.

Your task for tonight deals with staff development. The website below will be one that you may be able to use with your faculties. It was produced for first year composition and rhetoric students, but it provides a clear format for presenting websites to teachers from the novice technology user to the more savvy ones.

A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
In your designated groups you'll examine issues involved with website evaluation. Each group will be responsible for all three areas: relevance, authority or accuracy.
After discussing the three evaluation areas, each group will select one of the Ed's Oasis webs presented in the face-to-face. Next, evaluate the selected product in terms of its Relevance, Authority and Accuracy. Create a simple, one-page web that captures your group thoughts in an organized manner.
Projections and discussion will be at 9:00.

Critical Evaluation Exercise

Relevance

Christie - Leader
Henry
Kim
Ryan
Emily
Kathryn
Ashleigh

Discuss issues involved with website relevance.

Authority

Doug - Leader
Chris W.
Jack
Kevin
Kay
Andrew

Discuss issues involved with website authority.

Accuracy

Gerald - Leader
Joe
Chris C.
RJ
Roberta
Yvonne
Matt

Discuss issues involved with website Accuracy.

Select a web author for your group who will have a web-authoring application open for note taking.
As you discuss, your group's web author should create the one page web with your ideas about the relevance, authority and accuracy of the selected Ed's Oasis product.
Upload the website. Project it to your group. Proofread, critique, edit, upload and take a break.
At 9:00, we'll reconvene in W1712 and share the three sites. These sites will, no doubt, be useful in assisting more than a few hesitant teachers.

7:20 Tapped In Assignments and Collaborative Activity

7:25 - 8:45

Critical Evaluation Exercise

8:45 Break time

9:00 Projections and discussions.