Clearly these different criteria can be used to evaluate software as well, so here are two questions: 1) which criteria do you think most people were using in their evaluation of the ctw.org programs?; and 2) which criterion would you like your users to use in evaluating your program, and what (if anything) are you doing to move their attention to that criterion and away from the others?
Segars and Verhoevan 2002: Multimedia and literacy learning
"Literacy" is a rather loaded term by the time you get to college, but in the context of the Segers and Verhoevan paper it's clear enough what they mean: "childrens oral and written language development." What do the authors report in this paper and are you impressed by it?
In the course of the discussion, I hope we'll have a chance to look at the The Colorado Literacy Tutor as well.
For Tuesday: Read the paper by Elizabeth Davis about prompting reflection in Middle Schoolers, and identify 2 research articles that are relevant to your projects. Project pages need to be updated by Tuesday as well.