Using a website evaluation opens my eyes to notice some things wouldn't take into consideration without using one. Obviously, I notice things such as spelling errors, user-friendliness of the page, and pictures. The evaluations asked a lot about credibility as well as noticing things such as advertisements on the side of the page. I am so used to seeing advertisements and links that lead you elsewhere that I ignore them. However, providing a site like that to children could cause a lot of problems.
I would definitely use a formal evaluation when choosing websites to implement in the classroom or if the school or a committee asked me to evaluate one. For my own use and on my own time, I would use my own judgment. My favorite form to use out of the four provided in class today was MidLink Magazine, because it let you rate different attributes of the site on a scale from 0-4. I find that there are a lot of things that may not be applicable for certain sites on a lot of the evaluations. Every form was useful because it asked detailed questions whether you were to answer with a rating or a "yes" or "no."
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