The purpose of this activity is to give you a chance to experience educational software and to reflect on the different types and their uses.

This activity helps you to establish a framework of criteria to guide your evaluations.

In this activity you explore how other teachers around the world have evaluated software and we try to learn from their experiences. The purpose of educational software is explored.

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. A list of available software is part of this module.

In Activity 6, you will use the criteria you have developed to analyse and formally review two different software products

You now 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 to use when buying software.

These steps will help you put into practice the theory you have learnt in the first half of the module.