Overview - Successes

• Students have learned to create and apply criteria to determine Web resource quality, authority, etc.
• The KIDS Report provides an answer to filtering. Resources in the report are pre-selected; only the sites that are deemed worthwhile are included.
• Work has been made meaningful and skills more useful to students through their production of a publication for a real-life audience who can, in turn, give reader feedback.
• The students' first names are on the publication, offering a source of pride for the creators.
• Students solve the "problem" of information management on the Internet and in so doing have developed a model for other K-12 classrooms and/or students to emulate.
• The KIDS Report has become a quality resource providing annotated sites, pre-selected for quality.
• The Madison School District is already using the KIDS Report model in their curriculum, with students and teachers actively producing their own local versions of the report.