Jo Cool or Jo Fool
Media Awareness Network,
Jan 07, 2003
The androgynous name was a good idea for this site, but the all-male imagery wasn't. But aside from this - and some quibbles about the way the site represents some issues - I have to say that overall this is a pretty good tool for teaching net awareness. I really liked the examples - they are characteristic of a wide variety of the sorts of sites, tools and situations you find on the web every day. The writing is loose and informal, and the navigation is reasonably intuitive (a couple of glitches there, but nothing a teen can't figure out). The quiz at the end could do without the questions on stats - the content gave you no information about how to answer those - but is otherwise a great way to reinforce the learning that takes place. And the site comes with a downloadable teacher's guide. Great work. Thanks to the Teacher List for another hit.
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