WebSite Evaluation

post a summary of your evaluation on your blog - talk about the strengths of each evaluation guide and how their use changed your opinion of the evaluated site - and what you learned from the process of evaluation

There are huge benefits to evaluating websites before allowing children to use them. The teacher is responsible for the safety and protection of the students in their class. While evaluating kidsreads.com I used Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators and Wave.webaim.org. According to Schrock's guide the website would be good for young children. A student could navigate the site easily and there are large pictures and links. The information is great and it is good for students to get more info as well as for teachers. The Wave was a little harder to understand. It seemed that most of the errors it detected were mainly about the code used to create the website and it's links.

Overall I think that kidsreads.com is a great place to learn about authors of our favorite books. But I think that it is mainly geared toward teachers. It looks like it could be a good tool for students to find books and learn about authors but in my opinion a parent or teacher should oversee the student's search.