Although I have never really thought about how to evaluate websites for accuracy, I have realized that one as a teacher must make sure that the information presented will be accurate and up to date for the students to learn effectively. For our learning experience this week, we had to evaluate a website that would be used for teaching students.
I chose to evaluate www.pbs.org/teachers, PBS Teachers. This site is packed full of wonderful resources for all grades and subject areas. It is also very nicely sorted for easy finding. Once a grade is chosen, the next step is to choose what subject are you want to look more into. Once that is chosen, pages upon pages come up with lesson plans, games, offline activities, interaction activities, etc. Subjects presented on this site are art, health and fitness, math, reading and language arts, science and technology, and social studies. This website does need flash player and real player to play games, videos, and audio.
The credibility and reliability of PBS Teachers was presented with details about the author, founders, collaborators, PBS teacher leaders, and PBS teachers advisory group. There does not seem to be an bias of information presented, as all issues of learning are presented in different formats of presentation. I did not find any difficulty in navigating the home page or reading any information that was listed. I would highly recommend this website because it has an abundance of helpful links for the novice or advanced teacher, and it is free!
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