1. Evaluating Resources to Improve
Student Access at Plano
Independent School District (PISD)
Mayawanty Mawariasari
ET 502
Information Access and
Evaluation
April 8, 2012

2. The ratio of students to instructional
computers at PISD is 3:1 (Elementary)
and less than 3:1 (Secondary).
4
3
2
1
0
PISD
National

3. Instructional Center website is
accessible from school and home
computers.
Student Center @
Instructional
Center

4. PISD should continue to improve access
to Instructional materials.
High-speed wireless network
access

5. and these…
Handheld computers and devices

6. Black fonts on the white background display a harmonious
contrast as well as put an strong emphasis on the
information on each slide.
Together, the three
images, display a unity
and movement of the
efforts to improving
students access to
instructional materials.

7. “The Internet as a source of information is
vast, disorganized, and continually in a
state of flux between updating and
stagnating.” (Ware, 2001, p. 39)

8. That’s why we need strategies to evaluate
Internet resources.
Authority Accuracy
Purpose
Currency
Balance & Objectivity Coverage

9. PISD can educate students select
effective Internet resources through
many ways.

10. or, by addressing
internet use in the
curriculum, such
as writing project
and web
evaluation activity.

11. Black fonts on the white background display a harmonious
contrast as well as put an strong emphasis on the
information on each slide.
These images show the direction towards the
teachers’ efforts in helping students find
effective information on the Internet.
Highlighted words in Slide 8 emphasize the
strategies used to evaluate Internet resources.

12. All Internet access at PISD is filtered
for minors and adults in compliance
with Children’s Internet Protection Act
(CIPA).

13. The Copyrighted software or data can
only be placed on any system connected
to the District’s system with permission
from the holder
of the copyright.
(Plano ISD Board Policy
Manual, 2012)

14. No District student
should post personally
identifiable information
on a Web page without
written consent from
the parent.
(Plano ISD Board Policy Manual, 2012)

15. Black fonts on the white background display a harmonious
contrast as well as put an strong emphasis on the
information on each slide.
Together, these
images put a
great emphasis on
the legal and
ethical issues
from Internet use
that school faces.

16. Appendix
Assertion-Evidence Model is a redesign of PowerPoint’s default structure of a topic-
phrase headline supported by a bullet list of subtopics. Unlike PowerPoint, assertion-
evidence model support the sentence headlines (assertion) by visual evidence:
photos, drawings, diagrams, graphs, films, or equations (evidence) to better serve the
audience in understanding and remembering the content of a presentation
(Alley, 2012)
In Slide 3, I used the visual of computer (evidence) to show how easy to access
the Instructional Center website, which can be done from school’s or home’s computer
(assertion).
in Slide 8, I used the visual of 6 men in orange outfits (with respective highlighted
words) to represent the strategies used when selecting Internet resources
(assertion), while the man in yellow represent the student who needs help in selecting
and evaluating the effective Internet resources (evidence).
Student-focused element of this presentation is Slide 14 as it directly relates to the
fact that most students, when using the Web, often divulge personal information
without knowing the risks and consequences they may be facing. I also select this
slide in consideration that it is the ethical responsibility of the educator to address the
privacy issues to students. (Kamm, 2012)

17. References
Alley, M. (2012). Rethinking the design of presentation slides: The
assertion-evidence structure. Retrieved March 23, 2012 from
http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html
http://www.dreamstime.com/ - various images used in this PowerPoint.
Kamm, Ph.D., B. (2012). Privacy: ET502-MEL035 [Week 4 Video Lectures]
Retrieved from http://epiclms.net
Plano ISD Board Policy Manual. (2012). CQ(Regulation). Retrieved April 5, 2012
from http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/312?filename=CQ(REGULATION).pdf
Ware, M. (2001, July). Evaluating information on the Internet. School Libraries
Worldwide 7.2: 39. Retrieved April 6, 2012 from
http://search.proquest.com/socialsciences/docview/217786026/fulltextPDF/135FAA
2B51B11C9EB09/1?accountid=31683