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 * Web Evaluations**


 * Title**: America's Library
 * URL**: []
 * Comments**: This website helps teaching and learning in many ways: first off, the website comes in an inviting atmosphere making tabs easy to follow. Secondly, it is not hyped in big long boring words so I was able to understand it for the most part and make sense of a lot of information. There aren't many limitations to even point out throughout the website. I find it really easy to find basic things and also there isn't anything in there that comes off to hard to manage. The only thing I could say that would regards to limitations is that it is set up for younger audiences but again, still very informative. I feel we could use this in the classroom if we were to want to make surveys or worksheets to test for simple facts throughout history. There is much to learn on the website and I can honestly say I can get more information here than any other site I have stumbled across so far.

I used this site also. I think this is a great site because all the information is separated and it is fairly easy to navigate. It looks to be setup mostly for younger kids, but this sites contains very useful information that would be good for any age group. I like how you can learn about famous americans, the 50 states, or learn the history timeline. This site is great for a classroom because of all the information along with some games and different activites for students. -MK- Link to Rubrics:


 * Title**: American Educational History
 * URL**: http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html
 * Comments**: This site comes up with many opportunities for teaching and education because it provides with information that many people did not know. This timeline sets up a variety of facts like when Harvard was established and The Bill of Rights and also dates when World War 1 & 2 occurred. Using this site will help provide an amount of facts that the U.S. has done throughout history. There are a bunch of limitations that this site has, one being that they do not put enough valuable information that students would find appealing than when the ACT was established. They put too many things that we did not need to really bother knowing although it is nice to know things here and there along the way. However, I do find it a good resource to come back to if I wanted to throw random facts out for students to laugh over and actually take in.

This is a great site because it does contain a great amount of information. Personally I think that there is too much information, and it is all in one place. There is no distinct separation between sections. It seems that there could possibly be a better way to divide this information. Although it is a lot of information, does not mean that it can be used. This sort of a website could be perfect for some sort of scavenger hunt game, or something along those lines, that allows students to have fun and learn at the same time. But as you said it would be a great way to throw random facts to the kids and they could possibly find it amusing and therefore being a better teacher all around. BB Link to Rubrics: