Evaluating Resources to Improve Student Access at Plano

Independent School District (PISD)

Mayawanty MawariasariET 502

Information Access and Evaluation

April 8, 2012

The ratio of students to instructional computers at PISD is 3:1 (Elementary) and less than 3:1 (Secondary).

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Student Center @ Instructional Center

Instructional Center website is accessible from school and home computers.

PISD should continue to improve access to Instructional materials.

High-speed wireless network access

With this…

Handheld computers and devices

and these…

Black fonts on the white background display a harmonious contrast as well as put an strong emphasis on the information on each slide.

Together, the three images, display a unity and movement of the efforts to improving students access to instructional materials.

“The Internet as a source of information is vast, disorganized, and continually in a state of flux between updating and stagnating.” (Ware, 2001, p. 39)

That’s why we need strategies to evaluate Internet resources.

Authority Accuracy

Balance & Objectivity

Currency

Purpose

Coverage

PISD can educate students select effective Internet resources through many ways.

By using library

database…

or, by addressing internet use in the curriculum, such as writing project and web evaluation activity.

Black fonts on the white background display a harmonious contrast as well as put an strong emphasis on the information on each slide.

These images show the direction towards the teachers’ efforts in helping students find effective information on the Internet.

Highlighted words in Slide 8 emphasize the strategies used to evaluate Internet resources.

All Internet access at PISD is filtered for minors and adults in compliance with Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

The Copyrighted software or data can only be placed on any system connected to the District’s system with permissionfrom the holder of the copyright. (Plano ISD Board Policy Manual, 2012)

No District student should post personally identifiable information on a Web page without written consent from the parent. (Plano ISD Board Policy Manual, 2012)

Black fonts on the white background display a harmonious contrast as well as put an strong emphasis on the information on each slide.

Together, these images put a great emphasis on the legal and ethical issues from Internet use that school faces.

AppendixAssertion-Evidence Model is a redesign of PowerPoint’s default structure of a topic-phrase headline supported by a bullet list of subtopics. Unlike PowerPoint, assertion-evidence model support the sentence headlines (assertion) by visual evidence: photos, drawings, diagrams, graphs, films, or equations (evidence) to better serve the audience in understanding and remembering the content of a presentation (Alley, 2012) In Slide 3, I used the visual of computer (evidence) to show how easy to access the Instructional Center website, which can be done from school’s or home’s computer (assertion). in Slide 8, I used the visual of 6 men in orange outfits (with respective highlighted words) to represent the strategies used when selecting Internet resources (assertion), while the man in yellow represent the student who needs help in selecting and evaluating the effective Internet resources (evidence).

Student-focused element of this presentation is Slide 14 as it directly relates to the fact that most students, when using the Web, often divulge personal information without knowing the risks and consequences they may be facing. I also select this slide in consideration that it is the ethical responsibility of the educator to address the privacy issues to students. (Kamm, 2012)

Alley, M. (2012). Rethinking the design of presentation slides: The assertion-evidence structure. Retrieved March 23, 2012 from http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html

http://www.dreamstime.com/ - various images used in this PowerPoint.

Kamm, Ph.D., B. (2012). Privacy: ET502-MEL035 [Week 4 Video Lectures] Retrieved from http://epiclms.net

Plano ISD Board Policy Manual. (2012). CQ(Regulation). Retrieved April 5, 2012 from http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/312?filename=CQ(REGULATION).pdf

Ware, M. (2001, July). Evaluating information on the Internet. School Libraries Worldwide 7.2: 39. Retrieved April 6, 2012 from http://search.proquest.com/socialsciences/docview/217786026/fulltextPDF/135FAA2B51B11C9EB09/1?accountid=31683

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