Joshua's+Web+Evaluation

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 * Title**: World War II Timeline
 * Site URL**: []


 * Comments**: This is a website that focuses on giving a timeline to key events in World War II. Its nice because it breaks events into years and goes back to World War I, where some problems carried over to World War II. It has some good links to other informative websites relating to the certain events. The web page also includes many pictures, that relate to the events, people or places listed. There has not been any huge changes in the history of World War II, so the information is still current for being last updated four years ago. There are some disadvantages with this website, such that that it does not look very user friendly, there are too many links which could easly make one losted in the webpage. The look of the website could also use an update to make it look more attractive. while searching the website, there was no link to email the creator of the site. This is a good site for a high school history class because it lists key events during the war, then allows the student to be able to get more information about certain events.

This website is very direct and has tons of links to factual information. This is a website i would use in my class because it gets straight to the point and there is virtually no advertising. I also could not find an author to some of the information but it seems credible. The blue on the home page is very strong and could probably use some touching up, however, i personally like the layout because it's very categorized. The entire site is a giant time line and it is very easy to quiz/test students on time lines. -ESS


 * Title**: The American Revolution
 * Site URL**: []

This is a website that is centered around The American Revolution. It has some many cool features that would be great to use in a high school United States history class. It breaks down the conflict between the Americans and British by means of battles, events, laws, people, and documents. It also has links to listen to music from the time period. The best part about this site is that it includes ideas that some text books will not cover, show different viewpoints. This would be good in helping the students become more aware of different viewpoints and look at an event or idea critically. Students also have a chance to join live chat sections that discuss different topics too. The website has great links to other websites that the teacher could use to pull up more detailed information. Some disadvantages of this website are the many advertisments floating around and the non-uniformity of the pages.
 * Comments**:

I could also see myself using this website in my middle school classroom. It provides a lot of information on the different aspects of the American Revolution. Some of the wording is more suited towards older students, but I believe middle schoolers could understand most everything. I agree with the areas that you said were a disadvantage of the website. The creators of the website need to work on the layout and design of some of the pages. -EMG

Comment: I also agree that this could be a very useful website for teaching. I think it would be very useful for high school students. I like the different sections it has that a teacher could use in the classroom. The sections vary from the different people involved in the revolution, to a timeline of events. No matter what information that I would want to find out from this site about the revolution, I would be able to find it. I also agree there is a little advertising which could be distracting, but other than that I thought it was a very good web page. **(JCP)**


 * Web Evaluation Rubric: [[file:kuligowski_web_rubric.doc]]**