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Kelsey Calvert

Here are my website evaluations. [|web_pg_rubricWMerrill.doc].

By: Kelsey Calvert [|www.kids-korner.com]Comments: This site is a very good website for kids learning how to read or spell. It is an interactive site that has a lot of games on it. The games are different ways to make words out of the letters that are given to you. The website would be difficult for younger students to navigate their way through. The games are a lot of fun, the students would not even realize that they are learning. One of the disadvantages of this site is that each game is timed so the students might feel rushed while they are playing. I would use this site in my classroom to help students learn how to spell, read, and problem-solve. This is a fun and interesting way to teach your students the skills that they need for spelling. (Comments: I really liked this site. It is easy for kids to navigate and it has a lot of really neat games for them to learn and play. This website also has other links to activities that kids can do at home with their families. This site is put together very well and I could definitely use it in my classroom. - MB) (Comments: I really think this is a good site for helping children learn. It can be a little confusing with all of the links but they are good because there are tons of resources and activities. There are even sites to learn about animals and such to help further educate kids.-LM) (Comments: I really like this site also. It has a lot of different activities and many ways for children to learn. I would really consider using this website to teach my future students. There are also numerous resources and seems to be pretty legit. -MC) By: Kelsey Calvert [|www.kidsreads.com] Comments: This is site is that is filled with different books for young children enjoy. This site has reviews, trivia, and different activities for different book. The site however is pretty difficult to navigate through because there is a lot of text that a younger student would not be interested in. I would use this site to have my students take quizzes on books that they have read to test their comprehension skills. I would also use the reviews on this site for books to read in my classroom. It is a really great site for teachers looking for literary material. (Comment: This site is really useful in different ways. I like how there are newsletters you can sign up for about the latest activities for children. I also like how it has trivia and stories online to read. They may not be appealing to a lot of students but they sure give out good ideas for the classroom.-LM) (Comment: This site has many possiblities in which it can be used. I enjoyed the many different uses that this site proposes and also the many different ages it can appeal to. It gives many different ideas for lectures.-MC)
 * Kids-Korner**
 * KidsReads**

Megan Brennan

Here is my website review. [|MB Website Evaluation.doc][

KidZone Math By: Megan Brennan www.kidzone.ws/math/ Comments: This website was a very good tool for teachers to have worksheets available for their students. The website was very helpful, although, you had to print off a worksheet yourself. This is not an interactive website. This website could be great for teachers to use and for students to get extra practice in at home. The website is easy for an adult to navigate, but for a young child, this would be a very difficult task. The worksheets were great for little kids though. There were plenty of different activities and different ways to reach the children in the classroom. I would use this website when I become a teacher because it is a great way to get children with different learning styles to interact with their peers while working on these worksheets.

This site is pretty easy for students to navigate through because it has the different grade levels on the home page. I also like that there is online quizzes that are timed because it tests the students math skills.- KC

Learn English Kids By: Megan Brennan www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm Comments: This website is overall put together very nicely. It is very easy to navigate and there are a lot of different activities on it for children to interact with. Children can read along, sing songs to remember words, follow directions to paint pictures. All of these games are fun, interactive, and educational and could really help students learn at a faster pace. This would not only help the children with their English, but it could also help them with learning about technology. This website is very helpful and it is a good way for students to interact with one another while playing games. I was very impressed with the overall layout and no advertisements! The website was very credible and I'm sure I'll be back to it in the future.

Laura Morris

Here is my website evaluations. [|EDU web evaluation.doc]

By: Laura Morris []
 * Waukegan P****ublic Schools Student Resource Center**

Comments: This website is pretty well put together. It makes it very helpful when navigating because it is broken up between elementary, middle school and high school resources. It is pretty easy to navigate but in some area's it gets a little confusing with all of the different links and places to go. There are reading stories and online quizzes for students to try along with a weekly reader for ideas of what to present in your classroom. The activites are very interactive for the students and helps them learn at the same time. The only limitation is that the stories on the site might be harder for the students to read. If I end up teaching kindergarten then there are lots of useful things i could use. There are colors with their own worksheets along with shapes and numbers. It would be perfect for what they learn in the classroom and if I were a teacher right now i would use them. I loved how much information was on the site. I will be using resources like these in the future when i get my own classroom. (Comments: This site is really easy to get through, especially for a younger kid. It is broken up into different grades and games that correlate for those games. There were several different types of educational games and many different ways for these children to learn. Overall I thought this was a really great site. I'm sure I will be back to visit. - MB)

By: Laura Morris []
 * Handwriting for Kids**

Comments: This site is the best one I have found. I think it would be so helpful in my classroom. The site consists of worksheets for teaching kids the alphabet, and lots of resources for math, english and even cursive. My very favorite feature of this whole site is the fact that the worksheets have the option of being right or left handed. That is a great feature to have to accomodate the different types of students in the classroom. Not only do they have a bunch of worksheets for the alphabet and such, they have them for learning american sign language. The only limitation of this site is that maybe someone doesn't write as fast as anyone else so they may not know how to do it all. It is really neat because a lot of the things on there you don't see on a lot of other sites. If i was a teacher right now i would be using these worksheets all the time.

Molly Coldren

Here are my Website Evaluations--

By: Molly Coldren www.primarygames.com
 * Primary Games**

Comments: This site was not a very good one for teaching. I know there are probably many informative sites but this site is good for interacting learning students. This site is primarily all games, but each game includes a lesson or involves the students in each lesson. My favorite feature of this site is that there are many games that each child can play depending on their age level and the subject area being teached. I think that this is a great idea for upcoming teachers to engage their students in. The limitations that come along with this site are pretty numerous such as no contact information, we do not know when this site was updated and there are also many commercial ads. I might use this site for interactive learning with my students.

By: Molly Coldren www.DoSitey.com
 * Dositey.com**

Comments: Along with the previous site, this website does engage the learner in many different activities. Each Subject area is presented and there are many different ways in which a teacher can help their students learn in a positive, fun, interactive way. I liked this site because of how interactive it is and how it challenges the students to think and helps them learn in a very fun way. The limitations are pretty high, in which they include limited contact information, we do not know when it was last updated and the site is kind of runned through advertisements. I enjoy using fun interactive ways to help my students learn and I believe this site helps just that. If I was a teacher, I would use this site after lectures to help embed the information in my student's brains.

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