6 - Lots of analyzation

The format of Mrs. McDavid's website is perfectly suitable for the age range of her students. Given how she is teaching a third grade class, her use of vivid colour, fun animations, and large, easy-to-find links makes the website aesthetically pleasing to younger students while making it easy for them to navigate. As I've stated multiple times before, I feel that it is especially important to keep younger students visually entertained as it will prevent them from being distracted or becoming bored. As you can see below, the website is jampacked with vivid colour and a fun font that will hold the attention of students. The website also links to Mrs. McDavid's professional blog, which can be handy for parents that would like to get in touch with her. The only issue that I have with the site is that some of the links do not work. For example, the "tour of our classroom" link leads to a 404 not found page. However, the links that do work lead to pages with fun designs, such as the "supply list" link.

As an instructor I definitely intend to make use of productivity tools. For example, I plan on taking advantage of resources that will aid me in keeping record of information on my students. I have full intention of using Microsoft Office Suite due to the fact that it's spreadsheets can prove sufficiently useful in organizing my information. I also intend to use Diigo as a bookmarking tool. Diigo will prove especially useful due to the fact that I can bookmark websites with specific notes and make annotations onto the websites themselves.

The web resource evaluation forced me to take a closer look at websites and question their authenticity. Before this assignment, I never really took the time to question whether the information being presented to me came from an established organization, or if all of the links were fully functioning and lead to where they were supposed to. I feel like this assignment was extremely helpful for me because it provided me with an extra sense of caution with websites. This will be a necessary trait for me to have when I am having my future students participate in web hunts. What I didn't enjoy about the wiki was the fact that multiple people couldn't work on it simultaneously. This became tedious after a bit because, every time I wanted to add or edit something, I felt inclined to copy all of the text (so I don't lose my work) and refresh the page to see if anyone else made an addition to the paper.

This is my evaluation, where I evaluated this website.