Critical evaluation of websites Lecturer: Ed Campbell Email: CMPEDU001@myuct.ac.za Date: 23 March 2017 This work by Eduard Campbell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Draw a picture and stick it on the wall How do you feel while doing searches on the internet?

Quick discussion How do you use the internet at home, for assignments and for your lesson plans?

Today’s class Different functions of internet sources when planning a lesson Curating websites/platforms… Critical evaluation of websites that are directly connected to a text Working with “indirect” sources (an experimental modelling class) NOTE: the lesson plan I gave you is to create meta-awareness of my process throughout this class – follow it with one eye as we go along Did you notice I changed the style of my Powerpoint presentation? Why? How is it justified?

Multimodality, creativity and digital literacies in lesson planning Many information systems sources provide us with useful categories of the different types of sources (databases, videos, blogs, social media etc.) It does not provide us with how these sources will function within a specific context (like planning a lesson) – this function is very important to the teacher Integrating multimodality/creativity/the use of digital technologies is embedded in the process of lesson planning, not a separate process The hand-out… make notes on it as the class progresses to find your own interpretation of it

The teacher as collector of information The process shown in the hand-out works best if you have an archive of sources to draw upon – read, watch, ask, listen, speak, post, gather… regularly and critically Curating websites/platforms (there is a link to a list on Edmodo…)

Group work: critical evaluation of websites using a checklist Go to dl4tb.blogspot.co.za for my checklist (adapt as needed!) Using your devices, find 1 good and 1 bad source directly linked to Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem, “The Eagle”, using the checklist The source could be about the author, the poem itself, teaching poems like these, or/and how to teach this poem Please post your source AND findings on the English Method Edmodo site

YOUR CHALLENGE… Join one of the curating platforms mentioned in the article on Edmodo and start collecting resources Post these resources on the Edmodo platform so that other teachers can use them too