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=Web Evaluations=


 * Title: AplusMath**
 * URL:** @http://www.aplusmath.com/
 * Comments:  AplusMath is a great site to help students learn and improve their math skills. This website supports teaching and learning by helping students add and subtract or multiply and divide with the activities that are available. What I found most useful for my classroom was the flashcards and the math games. Both of these are great tools to help students sharpen their math skills and they are very basic and easy to comprehend. The size of fonts and numbers are large, which is nice Limitations included a couple of advertisements on the site and a not so colorful homepage. The advertisement’s cause distractions and the bleakness of the homepage made the website seem less attractive and exciting to younger crowds. Despite these few things, AplusMath has a lot of great information that would be useful for an elementary level math class. I could use this website in my classroom as homework or as extra help for students that need to work on there basic math skills (AM). You could use this in the classroom also by using the flashcards as a competition or game of some sort for reviewing for a test. Also you could use the game room or math word find puzzles to allow them to have some fun and review at the same time during any free time they may have so they stay productive (SB). I thought that this site had a lot of great information for an elementary level math classroom. I liked how big the font on the math flash cards was and I think that flashcards are a wonderful way for young students to learn basic math skills. I remember that using the computer in a classroom setting was an exciting activity in the classroom. Maybe if some of the math teachers I had in school incorporated this website I would have found math to be a more interesting subject to learn. (CB) I think this website could be very useful for small groups within the classroom. The flashcards would be very useful for kids to have fun within their groups while learning math skills. The home page would be a little more appealing if there was a little more color or interesting shapes, but other than that, it is pretty easy to navigate. The games and puzzles would be useful if a student finishes other work early and needs to keep busy or could be used as either extra credit or even establish a point system similar to Accelerated Readers where earning a certain number of points results in a reward. (KH)   **

URL: @http://www.starfall.com/ Comments: This is a great website that i could use in my classroom to help children read. Starfall supports teaching a learning because it is a great tool for helping students improve there reading skills. The site has different links to click on depending on a child’s reading ability. The first link sends you to a page with the alphabet, and you can click on each letter and a voice will help you sound out the word. Other links help more advanced children put letters in front of sounds to create words, or they have short stories, rhymes and fun poems for children to practice reading. This site is very easy to navigate, which makes it easier for my students to learn. I also love that there are no advertisements to distract students from reading. One of the only limitations is that the information on a couple of the links is a little juvenile for elementary level children. However, most of the information would be beneficial to use in my classroom if I were teaching lower elementary. This would be nice to use in my classroom as a structured free-time activity. I could even set up stations and this website could be the reading or poetry station (AM).
 * Title: Starfall

This is a a good website for young students. If I were to use this website in a classroom environment, I would do a group activity off my computer projected on a screen for the entire class. The website has a few different activities for young children. I would not recommend this website to grades older than second grade. The main page has a lot of colors and different characters and shapes. This catches the students attention and will make them want to focus on the interactive reading game.There are a few limitations to this site. The website has very small text. Also, this website is only for preschool-second grade. The information would be helpful in a classroom for a different type of activity. When a game is opened, it takes up the entire screen which makes students focus on the task at hand. This is beneficial because the students don't have any distractions with ads or useless information. (LD) Link to Rubri****cs:**