ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids <\/a>web page. The committee participates in three periods of web site evaluation for newly suggested sites and updates\/reevaluates any sites already listed. <\/p>\nSites suggested for inclusion are evaluated according to their author\/sponsor, purpose, design and stability, and content. The committee seeks quality sites for children ages birth to 14, as well as sites relevant to parents, caregivers, teachers, and others who work with children. The Great Web Sites web page is organized by subject matter. <\/p>\n
In 2007, the committee evaluated over 400 sites in the three rounds of voting. Each round consists of a pre-vote, final vote, and annotation writing. In the pre-vote, sites recommended since the previous vote are divided among committee members. These sites are evaluated to determine if they should be presented in the final vote for all members to consider. The final vote consists of all members reviewing the sites forwarded from the pre-vote, as well as at least three sites suggested by each member of the committee (these are automatically included in the final vote). Web sites are added if they receive support from at least 80% of the committee. Then, the new sites are divided up among members so that annotations can be written, and the sites are added to the Great Web Sites page. <\/p>\n
It is very important for this committee that all members try to keep on schedule as much as possible. It is difficult to catch up when work gets behind due to the volume of sites that are evaluated. It is very interesting to see the diversity of sites recommended, and you never know what gems may be uncovered in the mine we call the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Becki Bishop, co-chair ALSC Great Web Sites Committee The Great Web Sites for Kids Committee is responsible for maintaining the ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids web page. The committee participates in three periods of web site evaluation for newly suggested sites and updates\/reevaluates any sites already listed. Sites suggested for inclusion are evaluated according to their author\/sponsor, purpose, design and stability, and content. The committee seeks quality sites for children ages birth to 14, as well as sites relevant to parents, caregivers, teachers, and others who work with children. The Great Web Sites web page is organized by subject matter. In 2007, the committee evaluated over 400 sites in the three rounds of voting. Each round consists of a pre-vote, final vote, and annotation writing. In the pre-vote, sites recommended since the previous vote are divided among committee members. These sites are evaluated to determine if they should…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[22,47,10,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-collection-development","category-committees","category-digital-world","category-evaluation-of-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}