Rollins Interactive Classroom – This Website was created by a seventh grade middle school
teacher at
The site provides useful activities for students to practice
language arts and reading skills. Additionally, there is a page on helping the
students do a guided search online.
Three commendations for the site:
1.
The site is not visually overloaded. There are few graphics to
distract the viewer, yet the site is interestingly arranged.
2.
most of the pages
relate to curriculum. This is noted on the page. This
lets the user know that the page is useful to help strengthen previously taught
curriculum items.
3.
The worksheets are developed in pdf form, allowing for easy and accurate printing.
4.
There is a page of to let parents know what to expect
behaviorally for a 12-year old.
Three Recommendations for the site:
1.
The site has not been updated since may,
2002. the information contained on the intro page is
out of date and the picture on the page is not relevant at this time. Since
there have been no updates, the calendar link is useless.
2.
Each link contains only one activity. This makes for few
activities for the user to utilize for practice. There should be a variety of
pages for each topic. Once the student has gone to the linked page and done the
activity, there is no reason to return.
3.
there is no
information regarding the school. Should someone stumble upon the page they
have no way of knowing where the school is. Since this
page was posted to myschoolonline, there is no way
to contact the author of the page for further information.
http://www.myschoolonline.com/site/0%2C1876%2C1331-173467-1-65239%2C00.html
Mrs.
Gore's First Grade – This page was created to be
of use to her first grade students and parents. The site features current news,
a monthly newsletter, and many other features for parent and student
information and access.
Three commendations for the site:
1.
The site is very accessible. The graphics are of eyore from Winnie the pooh. The are appropriate for first grade students. The graphics
give the site a very friendly and welcoming feel.
2.
The first link is to an autobiography page for Mrs. Gore. She
delineates her degree of education and length of experience. This is something
parents often want to know but are reluctant to ask. By putting this
information on her website, mrs.
gore allows the parents to freely access this information.
3.
Her page links to the school’s home page. This is important to
most parents. It is easier for them to go directly to the teacher’s page
because this usually contains the information they seek. They do not have to
find the teacher page by hunting the school’s site. With the teacher page
linking to the school, the parents have the opportunity to
easily access the main school page if they want.
4.
some of The site
is current. The calendar lists the upcoming events for December.
Three Recommendations for the site:
1.
the Favorites
page lists links to other sites of interest to teachers. Most of these sites
are subscription sites. She does not provide annotations regarding these sites.
Should someone be unsure of subscribing, there is no way to know if these sites
are with worth the price. Some type of annotation stating the usefulness of the
site would be helpful.
2.
the newsletter
hasn’t been updated since November. For a monthly newsletter to be useful to
the audience to which it is directed, the newsletter should be updated no later
than the 5th of the month.
3.
The organization of the links is poor. There is no way to know if
the links are appropriate for students, parents, or teachers. Placing the links
in categories would be helpful. Also the site is light
on links for students. If mrs.
gore wants this page to be used by her students outside of school, she needs to
include more age appropriate links for her students.
http://www.mrsgoresfirstgrade.com/html/contents.html