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** Criteria ** || ** 4 ** || ** 3 ** ||  ** 2 ** ||  ** 1 ** || ||  Tool is age appropriate for the selected students. Meets all CIPA, COPPA and School Regulations. Content, access online, and student information leave few risks. No visible objectionable content || Tool is mostly age appropriate for the selected students. Meets CIPA, COPPA and school regulations. Content, access online, and student information require some additional monitoring and some risks. Potential to view objectionable content through site search. || Tool is minimally age appropriate for the selected students. Meets some CIPA, COPPA and school regulations. Content, access online, and student information require monitoring. Site contains gallery of user created content that may be objectionable. || Tool is not age appropriate for the selected students. Does not meet CIPA, COPPA and school regulations. Content, access online, and student information require to much additional monitoring and has high risks. Site contains highly visible gallery of recently created items. High potential of objectionable content. || There is no cost to use this site. || Most services are free; only advanced services require purchase (freemium). || Site has a reasonable cost, or is free with child friendly side bar advertisements. || Site is prohibitively expensive or contains an over-abundance of advertisements. || Main page is free of clutter (ads, etc.) and navigation buttons and site areas are easy for students to navigate. . Little to no learning curve involved. || Main page contains some clutter (ads, etc.) and navigation buttons and site areas are somewhat easy for students to navigate. Minimal time needed to learn how to make use of site. || Main page contains quite a bit of clutter and site areas are not clearly laid out. Instruction required touse site with students. || Main page contains too much clutter (ads, etc.) and navigation buttons and site areas are difficult for students to navigate. Extensive direction required to make use of site. || || Allows teachers and students to collaborate with other site users || Allows teachers, but not students to collaborate with other site users || Site allows minimal collaborative opportunities between users. || Does not allow teachers or students to collaborate with other site users. || Final products that can be created have educational purpose, are interesting to students, demonstrate mastery, and are aesthetically pleasing. Options available to publish privately, save offline, or embed in other web sites. || Final products that can be created have educational purpose and demonstrate mastery. Options available to publish privately, but online only, on site or embedded. || Final products that can be created have some educational purpose. Content is saved and viewable only on that site. || Final products cannot be created or do not serve an educational purpose. Content not shareable with others. || Use of the Web 2.0 tool encourages use of higher-order thinking skills (analyzing, evaluating, creating). || Use of the Web 2.0 tool encourages use of 2 out of 3 higher-order thinking skills (analyzing, evaluating, creating). || Use of the Web 2.0 tool encourages use of 1 out of 3 higher-order thinking skills (analyzing, evaluating, creating). || Use of the Web 2.0 tool does not encourage use of higher-order thinking skills (analyzing, evaluating, creating). || Easy to remember name. Site is intended for education or provides education portal. No registration required, and/or teachers can create accounts for students/classes. || Logical name. Educational nature of site is obvious. Requires students to sign up individually, but can be associated with class/teacher account. || Site name not memorable, unrelated to content. Individual logins with unique email addresses required, but information is kept private. || Have to dig to find name each time. Individual logins with unique email addresses required. Information supplied is visible within profile. || |||||| ||
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