You should now be aware of
a range of possible criteria, categories and approaches for
reviewing educational software. You should have a clear sense
of the issues and questions that you should be asking yourself
about educational software. You are now ready to choose a
few software products.
The next three activities are linked.
In Activity 5 you will identify and then “scan”
or briefly read about several products to find ones that you
would like to review.
In Activity 6, you will use the criteria you have
developed to analyse and formally review two different software
products
You then have a choice between Activity 7 –
using one of the software products with your class and reviewing
it and Activity 8 – developing software review
guidelines for your school.
These steps will help you put into practice the theory you
have learnt in the first half of the module.
Now
review these things to think about when evaluating software:
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