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=Julie Mullally= Attached is my completed website evaluation rubric.

By: Julie Mullally Website: [|AAA Math]
 * AAA Math**

This site is full of different math lessons that are good for kids in kindergarten through eight grade. It supports teaching and learning by making it easy to navigate and use, instead of being confusing. One limitation of the site is that it would be harder to use with younger kids who can’t read that great. However, to make the site useable in class, I would help get them to where they need to be and then explain what they need to do. I think I would use this website in my classroom. I would also send the link home to parents so that they can help their children with the things that we worked on in class that day.

This site supports teaching and learning by providing lesson plans, examples, and tutorials on how to do various math problems and equations. The site would be a great reference for students to use for say homework or additional study, if the teacher cannot be reached. Content is arranged by main categories and sub-categories. If I were to use this site for an in class lesson I would try and provide students with a link directly to the desired content, as the page contains more information than I ever wanted to know about math, making it daunting or confusing to a student if they don't know specifically what they are looking for. -- N.K.

By: Julie Mullally Website: [|Aol Kids]
 * Aol Kids**

This site supports teaching and learning because it is easy and fun for children to use. They will be able to improve after working in class and then working on the site for a couple of days. This site is colorful and there are pictures that can help children navigate around the site. One limitation is that the lettering is smaller and may be hard for younger students to read. Another limitation is that the links go to different sites, but the other sites are helpful. I would definitely use this website in my classroom because it covers many different math lessons that are important for younger kids. I could set aside some time during the day, either when the kids get restless the most or at the end of the day before they go home, to allow them to work on different math lessons. They would be relearning what they learned in class that day and would be having fun while doing it.

This site supports learning and teaching because it provides fun games for all subject matter and all ages. I really liked this site because even though it was reviewed as a site to help students with math it also includes games and activities for other subjects. The site is very appealing in looks and pretty easy to navigate. I would have to agree that a limitation is the size of the print. The size of the print would make it for difficult for younger students so if a teacher were to use this with younger kids they would have to either have help or possibly have it set up prior to the children using it. I would definitely use this site if I decide to teach language arts because its a unique way to engage students. E.P.

= = =**Nicholas Kroll**= Attached as directed is my completed website evaluation rubric.

**Exploring Career Info. from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: What Do You Like?**
By: Nicholas Kroll (reviewer) Website: [|BLS Career Information] This site supports teaching and learning by providing students insight and information into career fields that they can identify with. This website has a large amount of information and provides a great prospective outlook for students on different careers related to their interests. The information is presented at a level that is definitely for 9th -12th grade students. The site is rather bland and lacks the interactivity and aesthetic appeal of similar sites, but the relevant information makes up for this shortcoming. Students could use this site to research a particular career in their area of interest and then write a short summary or report on it in order to ensure they have researched and read the information on the site.

This site supports teaching and learning because it gives different jobs that are available for different areas like math, reading, managing money, and many more. It gives students an idea of what they could go into with their preferred subject area. This site is for high school students mostly because they are starting to think of what they want to go into after high school. The site is not very appealing to the eye but the information that is provided is very helpful. A lot of schools have career centers so this website could be used there or even in classrooms. I think the best year to have students look at this website is their junior year because that’s when they should be looking at colleges and getting ready to apply. However, it is important to have students thinking about what they like and what they would want to do starting during their freshman year maybe even earlier. JM

Website: [|Product Placement News]
 * Product Placement News** By: Nicholas Kroll (reviewer)

This site supports teaching and learning by informing students of current up-to-date examples of marketing in today's media. This website does tend to have some bias against advertisers and contians very little in terms of visual images. Once again, content is king and this website contains a large amount of it, allowing for examples of marketing in action. The information is written at a level that is geared more towards a 9th-12th grade level. The site also contains a few ads and very little in the way of images, despite its otherwise professional look.Students could use this site to research 3 or 4 current news stories posted on the site and either write a summary of the article, or use the site as a spring board to further research a particular products marketing strategy.

=**Elyse Prosniewski**= Attached is my completed website evaluation rubric.

**PrimaryGames**
By: Elyse Prosniewski Website:[|PrimaryGames]

The site Primary Games is a fun interactive site filled with many games dealing with various subject matters. I chose to evaluate the Social Studies page since that is a subject I am interested in teaching. This site supports teaching and learning because it has games dealing with many different aspects of social studies like presidents and maps. I can use it to help my students become more engaged in learning. One limitation of this site is some of the games may be to young for the age range I plan on teaching. Sometimes social studies can be a boring subject with this website my students will be able to not only learn but have fun at the same time.

This site supports teaching and learning because it is very interactive. It has pages for different subjects so I would be able to use it since I am interested in teaching math. This site is very colorful so it looks fun, and it also has some fun activities that students can learn from. This site is mostly for elementary students but some of the activities could be used for middle school students. This site is a fun learning site that I would consider using in my classroom. JM

**Internet4classrooms**
By: Elyse Prosniewski Website: [|Internet4classrooms]

The website Internet4classrooms is also a sort of game site however this site focuses mostly on language arts and math, which is good for me because language arts is another subject I am interested in teaching. It supports teaching and learning because the site provides not only games but quizzes and worksheets also. The site itself is not set up very well and it looks very poorly made. It has good resources but I would defiantly check over everything before letting my students go one it. I would use this site in my classroom especially the online stories and questions that it provides. Children are so technological these days I feel using computers as well as books would make things more enjoyable.

This site definitely supports teaching and learning by providing a large amount of interactive content for educators to provide students, which can help facilitate interactive learning. The site itself is more or less a collection of links which then take you to a variety of different websites. Ads are also clearly present in the site which are somewhat distracting, and the general design of the page, is confusing at best. If I were to use this site for classroom purposes I would use it as a starting point and then provide my students with the link I actually chose to use, rather than explaining to them how to navigate to it through the cornucopia of links and ads. I would also check all of the content beforehand as it's quality varies greatly from site to site, as things such as the [|hungry beetle] have the zaniness of a Japanese game show, and while make the lesson fun, definitely leave the viewer with a feeling of "what the heck did I just do?" --N.K.

**Neal Phillips**
Attached is my website evaluation

**Edgar Allen Poe; An Anchor Unit**
By: Neal Phillips Website: [|Edgar Allen Poe; An Anchor Unit]

This site supports teaching and learning through its information and activity based setup for an Edgar Allen Poe unit. The site has a broad and even contains some abstract information that help set it apart. Its limitations are the the narrowness of subjects and lack of links to further information. It seems that the site has a specific idea of how the unit to be taught and does not leave a whole lot of wiggle room if the teacher plans on passing on an acceptable amount of detail on the poet. The site also contains some information that would be inappropraite for teaching children much younger than the high school level. I could us the website in the classroom to get my students an active experience on learning. This would be a step outside of the average lecturing that many students have to sit through and could make the learning experience much more exciting.

This site supports teaching and learning because it provides thought provoking questions as well as activities having to do with the content of the page. The page itself is a little bland and not very eye catching but it is easy to navigate. The limitation of this site is that it only focuses on Edger Allen Poe, so it does not help with any thing but information on him. Also this site is more geared towards older children so it cannot be used in every classroom. Edger Allen Poe is a very prominent writer and I would probably use some of his work in my lesson plans so this would be useful. It provides some very interesting questions and activities I would consider allowing my students to use. E.P.

**The ABC's of the Writing Process**
By: Neal Phillips Website: [|The ABC's of the Writing Process]

This website is extremely well organized and supports teaching and learning on a number of levels. The site itself describes the steps and brings an image of the process itself to life making it much more comprehendable as well as giving a surpluss of links to assist in the teaching and excelling in each category. The only limitations is that with all the links it could be easy to get too deep inside a specific area and become sidetracked or slightly lost. Other than the sites seemingly bottomlessness and infinite depth there aren't any other real obstacles. I could use this in the classroom at almost any level with students struggeling with writing papers. No matter what age level there is information and tips that I could pass on to the students to help with any problems or road blocks they have stumbled across.