The Benefits of Collaboration & Rubrics

Through this week's lesson, I learned a lot about the importance of collaboration. I think that working on creating a rubric with a group helped show me how many great ideas can be brought together as one. It also conveyed that putting your thoughts together can create stronger points and ideas. By working with a group this week to create an evaluation rubric, and working with the class to finalize it, we were able to come up with a very good evaluation tool that will be able to be used in the future.

It is important that we have a way of effectively evaluating websites so that we are able to use them in our future classroom. Websites used in the classroom must be appropriate for the students being taught. Also, providing students with this rubric and having them evaluate websites would be a good tool for teaching them how to distinguish what makes a good website. Students would then be able to apply what was evaluated by the tool, and look at these criterion in the future when browsing for good websites.