Re: Gen: Choosing websites for student use/Site selection policies

[Robert Eiffert <beiffert@HOME.COM>]

How do you choose appropriate Internet sites for student use?

Basically, your District Selection Policy would be followed.

There are many evaluation guides available, one good one is 'The Quality
Information Checklist' at http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm. While geared to
kids, it covers all the main points that would be in your Selection Policy.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators  is a great source for evaluation tools
as well as quality links.  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

To some extent, I would prefer not to have a separate or more specific
selection policy for Internet resources.  While it may help to have some
procedures set up to help in any selection process, I would hope our
professional training would be enough to make quality choices.

What resources do you find helpful in locating these sites?

I subscribe to many lists and check recommendations. There are also many
good library blogs. To assist teachers and help focus kids it is often
necessary to find the specific section of quality sites to link to. So I
will point to collections within American Memory or NASA for Kids, etc.

If you approach the selection of materials through the Big6
(http://www.big6.com) process you will find that your choices are pretty
clearly delineated

How is your district/building handling the issue of filtering?

We got filtered early spring after 4-5 years of unfiltered internet. There
was effectively no difference since Web use policy is focused on use for
school purposes. I think we have more problems with 2nd and 3rd graders
teasing each other with the 612's on the shelves.

To a large extent this is a non-issue. Develop intentive use of Internet,
integrated into curricular studies. Provide  links to age-appropriate sites
for kids to search for info rather than expect expertise in developing
search terms for the whole internet. ie: Give links to quality zoo sites for
the animal reports. And teach all the search skills they need for success.

This is all over-simplified. Much, much more could be written and discussed
about any portion of any of the above topics.


HTH,
Robert

--
Robert Eiffert, Librarian at Image Elementary
Vancouver WA
http://www.ima.egreen.wednet.edu/library.html
beiffert@.egreen.wednet.edu



> From: "Jensen, Christina" <JensenC@CHASKA.K12.MN.US>
> Reply-To: "Jensen, Christina" <JensenC@CHASKA.K12.MN.US>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:20:09 -0500
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Gen: Choosing websites for student use/Site selection policies
>
> Dear colleagues,
> Beginning this fall I'll be covering a gr 1-5 building. This building has a
> small materials budget but a very well equipped, up-to-date computer lab, so
> I'm hoping to make extensive use of the Internet as a reference/resource
> tool. My experience in using the Internet with students is limited and my
> district's selection policy doesn't websites, so I'm looking for some
> guidance.
>
> Please respond if you can help me with any of the following questions:
> How do you choose appropriate Internet sites for student use?
> What resources do you find helpful in locating these sites?
> Does your district/building have an Internet resource selection policy?
> (Samples would be great!)How is your district/building handling the issue of
> filtering?
>
> Please excuse me if this message ends up being posted twice- I encountered
> some difficulty sending it from my home account- but, I'm using part of this
> information in a class assignment so I'm hoping to collect some responses
> before next Monday. I'll post a hit if I get sufficient response. Thank you!
>
> Tina Jensen
> Media Specialist
> Early Childhood Center (gr. prek & k)
> East Union Elementary (gr. 1-5)
> Chaska MN
> jensenc@chaska.k12.mn.us <mailto:jensenc@chaska.k12.mn.us>
>
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