Lab+Activity+-+WWW+Page+Evaluation

=Place the link to the WWW Pages you evaluated and give a brief synopsis of your over evaluation. =

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[|Internet 4 Classrooms]-
The site internet4classrooms is not the best site to find resources to use. What the authors of this website basically do it search the internet for links they would like to place on their website. The idea works because it allows teachers like myself to search for a specific resource to help us convey our lessons.

 [|Mr. Nussbaum] -

This is one of my favorite websites to go to and use for math games and instructive activities. On this site, Mr. Nussbaum has an activity where you have a virtual grid where you can do your multiplication, division, addition and subtraction and it helps you to keep numbers in the right place value and you can work on carrying as well as borrowing and regrouping. This website is easiy to navigate and is organized by subject matter and the activities are easy for students to use on their own. The website has ads but they are clean in nature and nothing inappropriate for students has ever showed up.

=Franckowiak WWW Evaluations =

[|Rader's Chem4Kids] - This Rader's site is very basic. It's not flashy but it has pretty good content. There is information on Atoms, Matter, the Periodic Table and other basic chemistry concepts. [|Nat Geo Kids] - This is a "busy" site with lots of videos and activities directed towards kids. The content is very safe and advertisements are kept to a minimum.

Robert Peterman: WWW Page Evaluations [|AAA Math] An OK math site with some generic basic lessons and related math games to reinforce simple concepts. [|Mac Tutor History of Maths] An excellent and well-researched site on the history and development on mathematics from a wide variety of historical and cultural contexts, as well as the biographies of more mathematicians than you can shake a stick at. My evaluation rubrics from the class assignment are attached below.

Brian Allen: WWW Page Evaluations [|National Council of Teachers of Mathematics] - A go-to website for mathematics teachers for information on standards, conferences, professional development, journals, lessons, and research. [|Math Goodies] - The advertisements and pop-ups are an immediate turn-off. Other than that, this website offers great tools, such as worksheets, lessons, interactive tools, and quizzes. I would be most likely to use this site for the interactive tools that are offered.

Amy Sniffen: WWW Page Evaluations Math Playground: A math website for young students. The site includes a lot of great educational math games that help students learn the relationships between numbers. Overall the site is very useful for teachers and students. There are a lot of games that teacher math concepts to students. I wish the site didn't have so many advertisements and I think it could have been organized a little better to promote its effectiveness and reduce the overwhelming feeling it produced with the number of options it had. Starfall: An ELA website that is very fun and engaging for young students. The focus of the site is to help students learn reading skills, phonics, and letter-sound relationships. Overall the site offers a lot of great, engaging activities. I think it is appealing and somewhat easy to navigate. I think the organization could be a little better and I think it should be more appealing for younger students.

[|Software_Evaluation_Form(1).doc] [|Software_Evaluation_Form(2).doc] Glenda's software evaluation forms. I evaluated two programs designed for children P-K through 12th grade. I was not so impressed with the first product as it seemed difficult to navigate and the instructions were ambiguous. The second product was considerably better and I would probably recommend purchasing it.While searching for online educational programs, I was impressed with the variety.

WWW Page Evaluations Shannon Nelson These two websites are very useful tools for reading and language arts. Reading A-Z is a GREAT site that has leveled printable books complete with a lesson guide. They are also projectable and easy to use with a LCD projector. I use books from this site because they are aligned to our unit plans and common core standards. Eduplace. com is a website that is directly linked to Houghton Mifflin reading curriculum. This site is interactive for students with vocabulary games and so many other tools. It is also a great resource for teachers.