This week's class, we have been introduced to Software Evaluation Rubric, Researched and Developed by Kristin Miller and Jacqueline Bach, SAS inSchool Interns, Summer, 2001. The rubric covers several aspect, which means software or website is evaluated based on several aspects. The aspects are instructional contents, curriculum connections, graphics and multimedia, lay-outs, technical aspects, adaptability and accessibility, learner engagement and interactivity, teache and learner support material, assessment, age/grade level, and lastly flexibility.
Why we need to evaluate software or website? 
There is an extremely wide variety of material on the Internet, ranging in its accuracy, reliability, and value. Unlike most traditional information media such as books, magazines and organizational documents, no one has to approve the content before it is made public on the Internet. Thus, it is our job to evaluate what has been put up in order to determine whether it suits your needs.
Besides, information is everywhere on the Internet, existing in large quantities and continuously being created and revised. This information exists in a large variety of kinds such as facts, opinions, stories, interpretations, statistics and is created for many purposes which is for instance to inform, to persuade, to sell, to present a viewpoint, and to create or change an attitude or belief. For each of these various kinds and purposes, information exists on many levels of quality or reliability. It ranges from very good to very bad and includes every shade in between. We have to bear in mind that not every website that we viewed is reliable and can be trusted. Thus, it is ctucial for us to evaluate the web site before we actually search, select and use the materials from the web site.
Example of the Web site Evaluation Rubrics:
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