Website analysis

When searching for an advantageous website to either profit from its activities or directly use it online in classroom contexts, it is better off to have a website analytical competence within our teaching knowledge(s).  Basically,  our first task was to analyse some web pages with the aim of acknowledging new aspects that occur when analysing X website. Before carrying out this work, we had taken into account only physical aspects such as website templates, fonts, structures, advertisements. After having finished reading some articles related to this sort of analysis, we noticed other aspects such as authenticity, up-to-date data, purpose (for instance .org - .edu - .gov), responsibility, accessibility, appropriateness, among others. All in all, I consider it is essential that this new competence prevails over our knowledge(s) as much of our daily world takes place in Internet. Therefore, we will browse through the net with a beneficial 'insurance'.

Website analysis

33 skills a 21st century teacher should have

While browsing through some websites I came across this excellent article (taken from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning) that suggests 33 '21st century' skills that a teacher, at least, has to aware of. If interested, the following points are part of some of such suggestions:

• Use of social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners.

• Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students.

• Exploit digital images for classroom use. 

• If you are interested in knowing them all... please check it out here!

Source:
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/33-digital-skills-every-21st-century.html