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Here are my website evaluation rubrics:

By Melissa Manning [|www.studyspanish.com] This website offers great resources for high school students who are learning Spanish as a foreign language. It has different links to things such as grammar, conjugations, and many other things. It does not have much advertisements on the page, but it does solicit you to buy their C.D.s though. I could see myself printing off some of these explanations and using them as a supplement to what I was teaching. I would refer this website to a student who was struggling with a concept.
 * StudySpanish.com**

I also like this website and believe it would be a very helpful asset for high school students learning Spanish. Although they have advertisements to buy their C.D.s for full features, the features you can see and use seem to be rather helpful. If I were studying to be a Spanish teacher at the high school level I could definitely see myself using this website to better explain concepts and explanations. I also like the free word of the day and the idioms. This is a good site to refer struggling students to. --KL

By Melissa Manning [] This is a great website for students that are learning English as a Second Language. It has questions that these students can post on to practice their English language skills. It also has discussion boards on different subjects that the students can read and reply to. This is a great website. It looks like it is not exactly professionally made, but the content is great. I could see making my students post on some of the discussion boards to have them practice. Practice makes perfect when you are learning a new language!!
 * Karin's ESL Partyland**

This website seems like a great site for students to use. It is easy to find their way around and ask questions if they need help. I like that it isnt all about the general language but also things that you would want to know in everyday life. It gives me the idea that it would be a great tool for students and teachers to use in the classroom. It would be helpful to have students use it once a day to practice their english language skills. -- JP

Here are my website evaluation rubrics.

By Katelynn Lucas [|Seaworld] This Seaworld site offers a lot of interesting interesting animals. It is well organized and extremely easy to follow. It also offers a verity of high quality pictures with very little advertising for the company. I think this website makes not only a wonderful reference for students who are working on reports, but is also a great place to get quick and interesting facts about many different types of animals. The best thing about this site is that it can be used for any secondary education classroom and can easily be navigated by teachers and students alike. I would personally use this as a suggested starting point for an animal research project, because it has both specific and general information. I could also see this being used to show pictures and tidbits for trivia and more interactive learning experiences during general lectures. I agree. This website is great because it has very thorough information. Even if the students can't find exactly the information they are looking for from the site, it has a bibliography for each of the animals and the students could check out the original sources for even more information. -MSM
 * Seaworld Animal Information **

By Katelynn Lucas [|Illinois State Univeristy Museum] This website supports teaching and learning because it provides historical information on plants and animals based on excursions done by scientists affiliated with Illinois State. It also suggests different theories and reasons as to why many prehistoric animals are now extinct, including things like human hunting and climate change. Reasons which still effect our animal populations today. Although the site is for the most part easy to follow, it gets a bit dull and bland to look at for long periods of time, which would make it geared more for the students in higher grade levels. This website could be used in the classroom again as a reference point for the beginning of an assignment, or during lectures to show maps and pictures of the different animals. Again I think this site is best suited for a starting point to gather information.
 * Midwestern U.S. 16,000 Years Ago**

I like this site because it not only gives you information but it also shows you pictures. I think that it is very helpful in the way that it not only allows the students to research but it also gives them examples. I think the best way to learn is through experience. Therefore this is a great site for that. It would also be helpful for teachers to get facts from and pictures (if they are copyright friendly) to use in the classroom. It was easy to navigate around and seemed like an interesting website.-- JP

Here are my wensite evaluation rubrics.

By Jenna Packard [] This website is very helpful to teachers. I like it because it gives you ideas as well as lots of resources for the classroom. It also offers you the option to buy things from the site, such as, books and worksheets. It also gives you ways to help your students get motivated about language arts in the classroom. It shows you some examples and ideas that you can give your students to work on and become better readers and students. This is clearly a website for teachers, although it allows parents to look on it too. This might be helpful to those who want their children to further their education or just become better students. This website could be used in the classroom more for a teachers use than a students. I think that it is helpful though for a teacher to get ideas on where to begin a lesson, or what kind of books their students should read.
 * Scholastic**

Scholastic is an amazing website for teachers. It is well laid out and very easy to navigate. I especially like it because not only can I find valuable resources for an English classroom (with activities and books for students of all grade levels) but there are even books geared more toward the sciences. I think this website is a wonderful resource for teachers and parents who want to help their children and students become better learners. They use of their blog even incorporates another form of using technology to communicate what is going on in the classroom. While there is some bias trying to get browsers to purchase their products, the website is very helpful and well organized. I would recommend it to any teacher, especially those with a focus in ESL, Language Arts, and English. --KL

By Jenna Packard [] This website is a great site for students and teachers. It is very helpful for students because they can get on it and read enteries from other students that they have written, Some of them write poems or reports on books. I think that it is helpful for other students to read what other students think. It is a helpful tool because they can better understand students at their same age and see what kinds of things they are writing about and learning about. It is also a great source for teachers because they can see what other students are working on and evaluate where their students are at. It has a lot of information for teachers and students. I think that it is well organized and easy to navigate through.
 * Read Write Think**

This is a great website. I liked it especially because I can find things that can be used in an ESL classroom also. It has a student section with a bunch of interactive games, and even a section that reminds teachers of the standards for English. It even has a section with links to other website resources for teachers to use. Lesson plans are also there at the teachers' disposals. Overall, I believe that this website would be a great asset to any English or ESL classroom. -MSM