See Jo Blog: Website Evaluation for EDLD5306

My evaluation this afternoon is for the website entitled Educational Simulation Web Site and is located at http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/edusims.html. Its purpose is to help teachers make use of simulation as an educational technique. The website is authored by Robert E. Morgan, a classroom teacher and technology coordinator who depicts the influx of information in our society as a tsunami.

The site recognizes the importance of the use of simulated activities and the role they play in student learning. Morgan outlines several advantages to the positive impacts that virtual learning has on students. Morgan also states that utilizing simulation or virtual reality techniques don’t have to be high-tech or complicated. He describes 3 types of simulations, the first of which doesn’t have to use any technology to accomplish.

The website is poorly designed in that it lacks dimension and pales in aesthetic comparison to Mr. Morgan’s other website pages. I evaluated it poorly on page format and the fact that it was not easily discernible whether the information was current.

This website about simulations and virtual reality for educational use has much value to the 21st Century learner. Virtual reality can work for educators as a tool in assisting students to become immersed in a learning environment where they can participate in their own learning in a technology based environment.

I would only be slightly motivated to recommend this particular website to other educators but having examined it, I’d be able to relay its contents to them effectively. I think I’d mainly refer certain teachers to the link where Mr. Morgan highlights a stock market simulation. That link is http://www.smg2000.org/.