Web+Evaluations+AR

=Web Evaluations=

Fact Monster is a good site that supports teaching and learning in many ways. It provides a plethora of informational pages. It has information pertaining to language arts, science, world history, math, and even more than that. The site would be great for teachers to use on a more laid back day in the classroom when you just want to give your students a little break from their everyday work, while still educating them. The site is well organized and easy to navigate, but it includes so much information it is a little overwhelming. I feel that students would be limited to how much of the information they could read in one class period. Because there is a lot of information on one page, the students may tend to just skim the section without really reading it, and they may miss important parts. In my classroom I would spend a day in the lab and have my students visit Fact Monster website. We would, as a class, go through reading the pages that were necessary for our recent lessons. Then I would let them loose to play some of the educational games and take some quizzes.
 * Title:** Fact Monster: Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help
 * URL:** @http://www.factmonster.com/
 * Comments:**

I agree, this website is a great site to have access to. It has so much valuable information. The site covers all subjects and has many topics and pages for each subject area. The site is appealing to the eye which is good for younger kids, and it is easy to navigate. It is a great way to get kids learning in a different way, the more ways they receive information they better off they are and the more they will remember. Factmoster is a fun website but is also very educational at the same time. JT

Maggie’s Earth Adventure is a good site for language arts and math. It includes many games for students to play that enhance their math and language arts skills, such as, spelling and grammar. This site supports teaching and learning because of all the educational games it provides. Once again, Maggie’s Earth Adventure would be a good site for a teacher to use on a Friday or a “free day” of some sort. While educational, it would still be a break for the students from their everyday work. A limitation of the site is that it is somewhat difficult to navigate. It is confusing to get to the actual activities for students. Other than that the site is very useful. In my class I would use this site on a laid back day, and we would all go to lab. I would show them how to get to the games, and make it some sort of contest, so that they actually would work hard while playing the games.
 * Title:** Maggie's Earth Adventure: A Free Education Resource
 * URL:** @http://missmaggie.org
 * Comments:**

I agree with the games that this site has, they could really enhance a students skill in either math or language arts. This site woully be a great website for a free day for all the students, it would be fun and learning all in one day. The only thing this site would need is the home page letters do not really look that clear to me, if the letters were more clearer I think the website would look a lot cleaner. - CD


 * Link to Rubric: [[file:rowe_web_rubric.doc]]**