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=H**ome School Virtual Educational Resource Evaluation Rubric (HSVERR)**=

As home school educators our time is a valuable commodity. Not only are we parents 24/7 we are also teachers 24/7. When moving our home school classroom toward 21st Century skills based initiatives and integrating web-based materials and resources into our home school classrooms, a significant amount of time is dedicated to vetting materials before utilizing them in the classroom. When my home school classroom made the transition to web-based home schooling, my biggest challenge was that of time--time to vet learning platforms, resources, assignments, lessons, and supplemental materials.

This challenge prompted the creation of the following Evaluation tool---the Home School Virtual Educational Resource Evaluation Rubric. These rubrics are a combination of various identified educational priorities and best practices for the home school environment. When you utilize these rubrics, please consider adding your reviewed resource to our vetted resource database. This is a work in the early stages of design however, I am hopeful that we will develop a useful database of home school reviewed resources thus eliminating the planning/vetting time challenge that often keep us from including more technology rich curricular materials in our home school learning environment.

I look forward to contributing evaluations and encourage your collaborative contributions. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcomed!!

= **Virtual Learning Platforms** =

**Florida Virtual Marketplace**
= Web-based Lessons, Webquests, Courses & Supplemental Materials = (Please indicate type as follows: Lesson=L, Course=C, Webquest=WQ, and Supplemental Materials=S)

**Bible**
Growing Up Where Jesus Lived-created by Tawny-Raquel Collins (WQ) This WebQuest gives your students the opportunity to be transported back to the time and places of Jesus' youth. It is based on a book utilized in the second grade curriculum of Abeka, however older students can utilize the Bible and Christian based literature to complete this WebQuest as well. Evaluation