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Link to Website Evaluation: Link to Website Evaluation for Matthew Freds: [|EDU290 Website Evaluations.doc] Link to Website Evaluation for Alexandria Drouillard Link to Website Evaluation for Cameron Hunt By: Matthew Spangler Link:[| http://www.worldwar-2.net/]
 * A WW2 Timeline**

This site supports learning by giving timelines to students so they can see what happened during World War II. Also, this site gives famous quotes that where said during the war. This site supports teaching by giving me a resource were I can find events that happened during a specific time period for my students. The limitations of this site would be that it doesn’t seem to have a lot of information on it about the war. Also, I can’t find the author of the site so I don’t know if this site has any bias to it or how reputable it is. There is also a lot of ads on this site which makes it hard to know what to click on. One other thing would be that the site it’s self isn’t very nice to look at, it looks like it was badly designed. I could use this site in my classroom by giving an assignment where I make my students find out what happened during certain years during the war. This would help my students understand the timeline of World War II.

By: Matthew Spangler Link: []
 * The National WWII Musuem**

This site supports learning for the students by having a lot of information posted about World War II. They can also find pictures of the war and their is also video podcasts that can be viewed. This site for helps teachers by giving them a lot of information about what is going on during World War II. The limitations of this site is that is that it has to do with the World War II museum so it may be a little hard to find information that has to do with the war rather than the museum. That was the only limitations I could find on this web site. One way I could use this site in my classroom is by showing the podcasts that are on it to the class. I believe this would make the students want to learn more about the war. Also I could give assignment based on information found on the website.

By: Matthew Freds Link:[|www.civilwar.com]
 * Civil War .Com**

This site is very supportive of learning because it is a broad and specific overview of the Civil War and many of it's aspects. It contains almost anything one could think of if they were researching the war. It is great for teaching because it has a collection of teacher and teaching ideas that any teacher can pull from. It has an area where teachers can upload and hence download lesson plans and activities. Also, teachers can use it as a reference and review tool because it has so much information that is for the most part unbiased and factual. It supports learning in the fact that it has so many aspects about the war that a student could use this website for almost any kind of assignment or project. It is hard to pinpoint limitations of the site except for the fact that it does contain a lot of information, so one could argue that it might be hard to navigate through it all. Personally I might use this site by pulling lesson plans and ideas off of it to use myself. For my students I would suggest it as a study and reference material. I think it could also be good for webquest activities and things of that nature. I could see myself using this site in the classroom by showing my students photographs that were taken of the Civil War and my students could use this site to gain more information about the Civil War. M.S.

By: Matthew Freds Link:[|CIA World Factbook]
 * The World Factbook**

The CIA World Factbook is an informative site that has a listing of nearly every nation in the world with basic and detailed data on all of them. This data ranges from population, government, economic, religious, to historical data, and etc. This site supports teaching in the fact that it can be a useful tool for teachers to pull information on any nation that they want, and because it is from the CIA, the data is accurate and credible. They can also use the website as a tool for review for themselves. As for student's learning, this website is also great as a tool for data searches on anything ranging from the government to population data (see categories above). It is easy to navigate for students and well layed out. It also contains visuals such as the nations flag, making it catchier to students. One limitation of this site could be the way it presents the data. It is not very good at describing the data, it just for the most part lays it out there for the reader to interpret. Students could use this site when doing a project on a specific country. Assign each student a country and have them find various data on it regarding population numbers, economic things such as GDP, exports & imports, religions, government type, etc. Though this website is very child friendly, when first entering the site it is very professional looking and could be difficult for a younger child to navigate through at first without very detailed instruction. However once the part of the website called Factbook is found, it is very educational, and could be very helpful when students are studying different countries of the world. AD.

By:Alexandria Drouillard Link: [|http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html] This website is a very informative site about life in America during the 1930's. This is the time of the Great Depression, however, this website displays the thirties in a pop culture setting. This site supports teaching and learning by making the information accessible to the students throuhg links including movies, media, and a timeline of each individual year. The site was well constructed through the organization, an instituion defending the information on the site, the clarity of the information, and easy to navigate through. The websites had one extreme limitation taht questoined the authority of the site, for example there was no author listed on the website, but an email for contact. As a teacher, I could use this in a classroom because, I hope to one day teach 20th century American history, and this is an excellent website that describes historic events in the 1930's that go fruther than the Great Depression. I could have the students navigate this site to find one unique event about the 1930's that they could do a report on. I could use this site in the classroom by showing my students the timeline so they would have a better idea of what happened in the 1930's, also a limitation for this site is that the font is small so it can become hard to read. M.S.
 * America in the 1930's**

By: Alexandria Drouillard Link: http://www.aresearchguide.com/1steps.html This website helps students that are in the begining stages of writing a research paper. It helps students outline a plan of action on how to make the writing process a lot easier. It explains all the steps that involve writing an research paper, and breaks them down so that they are easier to understand for the writer. This website had many advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages included that it was appropriate for the level of the audience and had some very useful information that could help when writing a research paper. Also, all the links worked on the website, and loads efficiently. Unfortunatley, many of the links on the website were disorganized, and hard to navigate through. I could use this in my class room because I would like to teach high school english. I could possibly take some vital information from the website and make a worksheet that the students could use during the writing process. I could also base my agenda on the links in the website. For example, I could spend one day explaining to the students about quoting books and plagarism, and the next day discussing the outline.
 * How To Write an A+ Research Paper**

By: Cameron Hunt Link: [|Ancient History] This website covers much of the Ancient history that could be used in the classroom. It gives a varity of topics to look into and provides a very clean layout. It could be use for gathering information, research papers, and even help start classroom projects. This site has many positive points. The links to information on the material and other resorces worked great and ran smoothly and pictures along with the topic allow for less confusion. This site does have a few minor weaknesses, when looking along the side menu the text is kind of small along with the confusion of colors being being similar. I would love to use this site for my future class room because I feel not only should I teach about these subjects, but my students should explore topics that they particually enjoy and want to learn more about.
 * BBC Ancient History**

By: Cameron Hunt Link: [|History of War] I think that this site would be very helpful with my teaching, because it gives alot of small details that I would not be able to cover in a normal class period. With that said it will also support the students learning of what information to absorb and what information to not focus on as much as other information. This site does have limitations that I am aware of, even though every link loads quickly and it is easy to learn more about information you read over, the organization is not there. It is all hyperlinks within the reading of the site which could cause confusion to students who are distracted early or who have a difficult time reading. I would use this site in my classroom to help students explore their intrests and for students to see the amount of detail that can go into a website like this will encourage them to use detail within all the work that they can produce. Though this website is filled with information, that information is not very organized and is hard to navigate through because of the size of the text, and the small links on the left side of the page. Also there seems to be no credibility anywhere on the page including no author found or organization backing up the website. This website was filled with information that could help students understand the military. If I were to assign this website as reading material for my classroom, I would most likely let them read through the website and find a couple interesting facts that they could then write a summary of the website about. A.D.
 * Military History Encyclopedia on the Web**

In our video we each talked about how we would integrate technology into our classrooms.

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