Online Product Review Sites

Online Product Review Sites

Erin Fountain

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  http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/

This website offers several links to educational programs and their reviews. I think that the site is organized very well, and provides a great deal of information in one simple portal. It’s a great tool for teachers.

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  http://www.worldvillage.com/softwarereviews/educational.html

I think that this website is organized so wonderfully. They have such a wide array of products to review in various categories. It’s set up perfectly for easy navigation through products for Early Learning to Geography. I think that this website is another valuable asset to a teacher.

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  http://www.kickstartnews.com/education.html

This website does not offer a great deal of products to review, but the products that are available on the page are thoroughly reviewed and explained. While they have products that were reviewed for a variety of age groups, I think that there could be more reviews on the website.

WAOE Article Review--Erin Fountain

The World Association for Online Education (WAOE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educators and their usage of programs in online education. The website states that: "The specific purposes for which WAOE is organized are to develop, support, and evaluate computer-assisted online education as a professional discipline, based upon sound pedagogical principles and humanistic ethics, and the voluntary efforts of educators so involved throughout the world (WAOE)."


On the website: http://www.waoe.org/, they have each one of their objectives listed. The objectives start with (a) and end in the letter (v). Basically, WAOE is an excellent vehicle for the promotion, production and review of online learning products. They are all for the online learning world, and are working to make it more accessible, usable, and valuable to both students and educators.

Module 5 Part 2

Where
to go for the reviews

Signe
Larson

• http://www.reviewcentre.com

  
  
  
  

  • Review
    centre offers reviews, the best price (if any); good and bad points
    about the product, and general comments. The reviews of the
    educational products are also done on an average off all the
    different people who criticize or applauded the product. I like how
    this site is laid out except the one flaw is you don’t really
    know who is critiquing the product therefore you have no idea how
    creditable the reviews are.
    

    
    
  
  

• http://www.dmoz.org/

  
  
  
  

  • The
    Open Directory Project is one of the largest websites that is
    edited by volunteers. The site not only offers links of different
    educational online services but also descriptions. I feel like this
    site does a great job at summarizing descriptions of educational
    products but the layout is a little confusing and boring.
    

    
    
  
  

• www.worldvillage.com

  
  
  
  

  • World
    village has become one of my favorite review websites; it has a
    very good way of organizing and is interesting. The site first
    gives you general head titles like, early education, and then under
    those head titles the site has a numerous amount of products listed
    under each one. Once you click on the link, which is the products
    name, there will be a full description with screenshots and a 0-5
    star review.
    

    
    
  
  

Module 5 Post 1- Signe Larson

Today we have so many products that are being offered to us we have no idea which ones to choose. So, there has to be a way that we can organize and in a sense get to know every product. Not only are some stores making the effort to have services where potential buyers can check out their product first by playing it but now we don’t even have to leave our seats of our computer to look at different types of products.
One of the websites that is dedicated to making it easier to choose the right product is www.edtechinfocenter.com.This website is a free website that offers peer reviews, lets teachers rate the products, and buyers are allowed to ask questions. This is just an example of one of the new resources that is being added to the Internet to make it easier to know what you are going to buy then buying blindly. In addition to this all the comments, descriptions, and reviews will be monitored by MGT of America Inc. to ensure that every post is informative and is not put there for commercial use. There for you should be able to know what you are really getting.

www.thejournal.com/articles/17021

Mod 5-2

Online
Product Review Websites

Stephen
Hardy

1. http://www.learningwarereviews.com

   
   

• Learning
  Ware Reviews offers reviews of the latest educational and
  edutainment titles and software.. One of the many things I like
  about this site is that it offers links to the websites of the
  companies reviewed. The site also offers links and articles of
  products for teachers to use.

  
  

2.
http://www.user.shentel.net/rbowman/

• Bob
  Bowman’s site is a free website that offers extensive how-to
  guides on finding and using free technology and software for
  education. The site also offers links to tutorials, software reviews
  and similar resources.

  
  

3.
http://www.superkids.com/

• Super
  Kids is an educational software review and resource website. They
  offer reviews and ratings, news about educational issues and tools
  that can be used on and offline. I really like that super kids was
  created to connect parents and teachers with educational software.

  
  

Mod 5 Post 1 - Stephen Hardy

According to T.H.E. Journal ’s Publisher Wendy La Duke, “Our goal is to provide a forum for educators to share their experiences using technology in the real world so that everyone can make smarter ed tech investments.” T.H.E Journal is an online educational magazine that is full of resources for education. In November of 2004 T.H.E. Journal launched the Educational Technology Information Center. The website offers peer reviews of hardware, software (instructional and administrative), and services in the educational world. On this site educators can rate and review the products they use. Along with the product review, detailed information of that product will be given. The reviews on the site will include product support, implementation and installation for the classroom, as well as many other valuable topics.

-"T.H.E. Journal Launches Online Product-Review Forum for Education Market," T.H.E. Journal, 11/1/2004, http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17021

Mod. 5 Kelly Romero

Where
to Go to Be in the Know?

Kelly Romero

• www.edsoft.com
  – This Australian company is dedicated to researching
  instructional and educational online technology, products and
  software. Edsoft uses their experts on education as well as conducts
  classroom research on products. The website offers information and
  suggestions about the products they review. Out of all of the online
  product review companies that I have found, this one seemed to have
  the best plan for researching the products and the knowledge of what
  they are needed for. The company is focused on meeting needs of
  students, meeting educational standards and assisting teachers in
  real classroom settings.

  
  

• www.reviewcorner.com
  – This company is focused on the review of online educational
  products for children rather than teens. The website mentions that
  products go through testing with children and their parents rather
  than in a classroom. While the site does say that it is used by
  teachers, it seems to be more focused on home educational settings.
  The website posts and easy to understand rating system of products.

  
  

• www.fcit.edu
  – This website for the Florida Center of Instructional
  Technology at University of South Florida is not a product review
  website; however, it can offer insight, suggestions and opportunity
  to look into the purposes of instructional technology and how to
  incorporate it for Florida teachers in particular. If you are only
  beginning to incorporate technology into your classroom or if you
  are a first time Florida teacher, this website will be helpful to
  you.