Re: Encarta

["Gail K. Dickinson" <ny001001@MAIL.NYSER.NET>]

        I see that the steps to evaluate any electronic product are:
          1.  Evaluate the content using the same criteria as you would
a print product (authoritativeness, currency, etc., etc.   The data has
to come from somewhere, putting it in electronic form does not make it
better data.
          2.  Evaluate the quality of the electronic product.  Things
like Boolean searching, maximum access points (all fields indexed), etc.
If you can't access the data better or faster than you can in the print
version, then why do it.
          3.   Evaluate the place in the instructional process.  This
last one has to be the most important.   If it will improve instruction
or provide a benefit to students, then we should buy it.

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Gail Dickinson
Union-Endicott Central School District
Endicott, NY 13760

                       "a wild patience has taken me this far"
                            --(Integrity)  Adrienne Rich

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