By: Stacy Schreiber
- What is the overall (or general) purpose of the website?
- Kindergarten – Fifth Grade
- The general purpose of this website is to help grade school teachers enhance their teaching through technology
- Another purpose is to help grade school teachers provide their students with semi-concrete information. Showing young students pictures or playing sounds for them will really help them solidify their learning.
- This site provides many links to other helpful sites.
- What are the major strengths of the website?
- Visual images
- Visual images are very helpful to students who still need semi-concrete information as well as teachers who are looking to navigate through any site quickly.
- Organization
- This website only has a small amount of information on each page. This makes site navigation easy.
- Each page can be easily reached by using the channels located at the top of the page. Each is labeled with a number indicating appropriate grade level.
- Layout
- All of the information on this website is laid out in a table form. This makes finding information very easy.
- Most of the information is centered on the page. The white space is used appropriately.
- How can teachers use the website for teaching/learning?
- Teaching
- Teachers can help their visual learners by using many of the pictures provided on this website
- Teachers can also use information from many of the links provided on this page to enhance their teaching.
- The links on this site are excellent resources for any grade school teacher.
- How can students use the website for independent or group learning, if at all?
- Students
- There are a few pages on this website that students could be directed to use. Navigation should be done by the teacher or the students should go directly to the pages that are suitable for them.
- What are some pitfalls, if any, of the site?
- The site itself appears to be made very quickly. The home page is not very aesthetically pleasing, but for teachers who are looking to enhance their lessons “at the end of the day”, they shouldn’t care that much.
- General neatness is a pitfall. Parts of this website are sloppy.
- The navigation bar at the top could be designed better. It took me a while to find the numbers and realize that they are an indication of grade level. I only knew that after I clicked on them.
- The background image is distracting.
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