Lea Ann Robinson

SLM 521

Elective- Communication

Newsletters

Linda’s Links to Literature newsletter is a free monthly newsletter with information on new links to her website. This month’s newsletter had links to several summer reading lists, a link to Eric Carle’s home page as well as links to sample lessons for his books that are on the subscription portion of the website, and a link to generic book discussion starters. The LLL site brings together activities that are posted on the web and organizes them by book title. A teacher looking for a lesson on a particular book will find a large number of links to activities without having to search the web themselves. The newsletter is a small sample of what is offered at the site and is valuable to anyone thinking of subscribing that wants to look at the highlights first. I would recommend it to someone under those circumstances, but I found the website to be more useful than the newsletter. http://www.lindaslinkstoliterature.com/lll/newsletter.htm

Education World Reviews Newsletter is a weekly newsletter containing reviews of several educational web sites. The first portion of the newsletter contained ads for sponsors. This weeks issue contained three reviews. For each site the URL is given along with the intended grade level, a letter grade and a few sentences for content and site design, the review and links to any other related reviews. There is also a picture of the main page for each site. The information is very clear and helpful with regards to the reviewed sites. All three of the site received A+ for content and site design and were recommended. Having viewed the archives for 2005, all sites reviewed were given grades of A or A+ with one exception (B+.) This newsletter is a useful tool for locating quality educational websites. http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml#reviews