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1. ESC516 Assessment Item 1 Part B
Evaluation Criteria
By Chris North Student Number: 11543809

2. Introduction
Choosing Web 2.0 tools for Primary school
students is not always an easy task. Apart from
the many age restrictions and cyber safety
issues, there are also other factors worth
considering, in order for the web 2.0 tools to
facilitate the learning objectives for students.

3. Using an Evaluation Criteria
To ensure that students and teachers are served
best by Web 2.0 tools it seems important that a
criteria is used to evaluate the worthiness and
usefulness of each tool.
I predominately used the selection criteria
provided by Bethany Bovard (2014) and made
some adjustments by modifying the questions.

4. Criteria 1: Access
• Is the tool accessible by Windows and Mac
users?
• Is the tool free?
• Will the tool be around for a while?
• Can the tool be used on a variety of devices?

5. Criteria 1: Access
As a class teacher I have a mix of devices in my
room including: iPads, Chromebooks, HP laptops
and Macbooks. The school has a very limited ICT
budget. For these reasons it is essential that the
Web2.0 tool is versatile and accessible in
multiple device formats and is free.

6. Criteria 2: Usability
• Do you have to create an account to use the tool?
• Is the tool easy to use?
• Does the tool have a robust and easy to use Help
section?
• Does anything have to be downloaded and
installed on the computer to use the tool?
• Can the tool be used at school as well as home?
• Does the tool have multiple uses to cater for
student creativity?

7. Criteria 2: Usability
Setting up new accounts and downloading the tool
onto computers for Year 4 students can be very
complicated and time consuming.
Deciding if the tool is easy to use for all students is
vital as it must be manageable for all students to
ensure that they will benefit from it including
having Help options when there are difficulties.
Most importantly the tool needs to provide
opportunities for students to use it in various
contexts (Burden, K., & Atkinson, S. ,2008).

8. Criteria 3: Privacy and Intellectual
Property
• Does the tool allow you to restrict access of your
work/your students' work?
• Does the tool protect your personal data (e.g.
email address given when account created)?
• Does the tool allow you / your students to retain
sole IP rights to the content you create?
• Does the tool allow you to determine the
copyright status of the content you've created?
• Can you save a copy of the product to your
desktop for archival purposes?

9. Criteria 3: Privacy and Intellectual
Property
When viewing a Web2.0 tool it is vital in the
context of primary school children that their
work is protected and their identity and
personal images kept safe from the public eye.
What is generally needed in a Primary school
setting is closed networks and Web2.0 tools that
allow for limited access.

10. Criteria 4: Workload and Time
Management
• Does the tool make it easy to track student
work (for grading purposes).
• Does the tool support private and public
commenting (for individual and group
feedback)?
• Is it possible to embed the tool into the LCMS
you're using?

11. Criteria 4: Workload and Time
Management
Although producing collaborative creative work
using Web2.0 tools has value in itself it is beneficial
if teachers can also use the products for summative
assessment. For this reason being able to save
‘work’ in a space that can be accessed by others in
the class community allows for teacher and peer
feedback as well as allowing parents a chance to
view their child’s work (learning samples). Using
web2.0 tools that are part of a learning hub creates
a space for learning and assessment to occur more
easily.

12. Criteria 5 Fun Factor
• Does the tool allow you to be creative during the
learning process?
• Does the tool allow you to demonstrate creativity
in the learning product?
• Does the tool provide opportunities for different
types of interaction (visual, verbal, written)?
• Does the tool increase the perception of
connectedness?
• Does the tool encourage collaboration?

13. Criteria 5 Fun Factor
It is so important for children to feel that they
have some ownership in their learning.
Providing learning tasks whereby students can
make decisions about the process and product
on their way to enduring understanding is
essential. It provides an environment of
authentic learning. Open ended tasks,
collaboration, creative and critical thinking are
all part of the 21st century learner’s experiences.

14. References
bbovard's blog. The Sloan Consortium. (2014). Web 2.0 Selection Criteria: Save Time Choosing an
Appropriate Tool. Retrieved from:
sloanconsortium.org/Web_2.0_Selection_Criteria_Save_Time_Choosing_an_Appropriate_Tool
Burden, K and Atkinson, S. (2008). Evaluating pedagogical affordances of media sharing Web 2.0
technologies: A case study. Retrieved
from: http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/burden-2.pdf
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