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What should you look at when you evaluate websites? A simple, to the point Prezi, with fun images, on how to evaluate websites. I would use this when teaching information literacy with upper elementary to high school students. After viewing, students could create a checklist to use when evaluating websites.

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Filed by on The American Association of School Libraries (AASL) is a division of the American Library Association. This is the sixth annual Best Websites for Teaching & Learning list. Sites named as Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboration.

Useful tool/demonstration from OER Commons to guide students in evaluating a website as information source. I've used Diigo's annotation tools with students to practice evaluating websites as sources. This would be useful to use as a guided example prior to their independent practice. OER JG

This website can be used as a resource for the 8th grade healthy choices unit.

This website can be used as a resource for the 8th grade healthy choices unit.

This is 2014's list. Check out previous years linked from this page too.

This is a website that could be use in a intro to digital filmmaking unit.

This would be a great page for any LMS to have bookmarked as a resource page to recommend Web 2.0 tools to teachers. It is also a great resource to post to a library or district website for students and staff to access. The list is categorized to help find online tools according to the type of need or product for a given unit or lesson.

I would share this resource with teachers via my library pages on the district website for them to use to enhance their lesson planning.

Named on AASL's 2017 list of top educational websites. Can be used for topic/lesson hooks for library media lessons or to share with classroom teachers

Studying pioneering is more fun with the Oregon Trail. My 3rd-5th graders loved this game and I'm loving this website for all the old media it contains. Great for showing students how things used to be.

I would share this with my pre-k and kindergarten teachers.This is a fun interactive website that focuses on patterns. Teachers would use this after they've introduced patterns to their students. This is an excellent learning center activity.

This resource could be shared with young children (ages 5-7) or with their classroom teachers.

This tool measures the accessibility of any website- just copy and paste the URL.

SDPC stands for the Student Data Privacy Consortium. If a district doesn't have a strong vetting procedure in place for online programs/apps, I would recommend teachers start with this source. It allows them to see if and how other districts vetted websites and apps.

The Khan Academy has wonderful resources on many topics. The online tutorials are great visual examples of solving various math problems that teachers can utilize in the regular classroom, flipped classroom, tutoring students or online courses. I would also coordinate with the teacher and link these resources to my library websites for students and parents to access. Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.