WWW Motivation Mining: Finding Treasures for Teaching Evaluation Skills, Grades 1-6 (Professional Growth)

The motivational assessment tools may be used in several ways:

• As a teaching tool to help your students learn valuable information literacy skills

• As a decision support tool for deciding which web sites are appropriate for teaching your objectives

• As a research tool for conducting practical research comparing the motivational effectiveness of various sites

• As a design tool for creating a web site that will attract visitors and motivate them to remain in the web site

Small and Arnone provide ideas, lesson plans, and examples for offering in-service workshops to practitioners, as well as lesson plans and related materials for student instruction. Overhead transparency masters and handouts are included. What web resources will you use in your instruction? Be sure to examine their motivational potential first!