Web+Evaluations+JJ

=**Web Evaluations**=

URL: history.com**
 * Title: History Channel

History.com is a website that appears to be designed specifically for the common interest in not only American history, but world history. This website has everything from videos to TV shows. Need facts about “This Day In History” and photos from many different times and locations long ago are all included on this site. Links can be found on this page allowing you to take online quizzes allowing you to better prepare. I would recommend this website to secondary level education due to its somewhat complicated navigation, and its advertisements on the sides. This website is very up to date and allows teachers and students to purchase merchandise that could be very useful in the classroom. Overall, history.com is a very useful site, and does a wonderful job showing its viewers true history from almost every known event of the past. I would highly recommend this site to all who are interested in history. -- DS **
 * Comments: This site very good website to use for videos and fun research. Although it is commercial, it has a lot of research and a wide variety of information. It promotes teaching and learning by offering study guides, informational videos, and a friendly store. There are links to online quizes about history. Limitations of site include the links to showtimes of the history channel shows. Another limitation in the add space used on the sides and bottom. This could become distracting to students. I could use this site in the classroom for vertual tours of maps, informational videos that are up to date, and as a store to buy classroom sets.

===Comments: Brian POP is very user and classroom friendly. It has great information and makes social studies fun with videos. This site supports classroom learning and educations by being very clean and clutter free. It has zero ad space and is very well organized. There are links to every subject and a navagation bar to visualize how you got to each page. Limitations to this site is that it is for a younger age group. I wouldn’t recommend this site for high school junior, seniors or college students. I could use this in the classroom to teach in a fun way. Give online quizes and have trivia games. This site is user friendly with projectors and whiteboards. ===

=== I would agree that Brain Pop is a very user and classroom friendly tool. The website is very easy to use and navigate, and it is very pleasing to the eyes. I would agree that the site is for the younger audience. There is a lot of animation, and the information seems to be best for elementary students. Some limitations of the site is that some topics may be inappropriate for a younger audience, and teachers would have to be careful to make sure no one gets offended. Another limitation is that some of the information is free, but to access everything you must be a member of the site. Overall Brain Pop is a very useful site, and does a good job of very simply explaining information using a variety of tools. ===

Comment by Rob Yusko

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