Evaluation of Website

The author is not really identified, yet the authors for each individual link are listed. The site is not a personal site and the domain name is org, which indicates that the site might not be too reliable. The site doesn’t relate to the curriculum that I would teach because I want to teach second or third graders and they wouldn’t be able to comprehend the information in this site. Also, the site refers to some sexually situations which wouldn’t be appropriate for younger children. The site is not very up to date. The site doesn’t seem to have a date that the site was created but the dates of all of the links are pretty outdated. The site loads fast and uses graphics appropriately but the site doesn’t catch your attention and make you want to read more. All of the links work very well.
By looking at this site, I think that a teacher or a student made this site who were inexperienced with making a webpage. I don’t think the site is appropriate for elementary schools because it has some sex-related information in it that are inappropriate for young children. Also, I don’t think this site would attract a child’s attention and help the child learn. Children can learn to be less trusting on information they get on the internet by having their teachers explain to them that all of the information on the internet isn’t right. They can also look at the domain of the site (com, org, edu, gov, etc) to see if it is a reliable site. When I searched “Martin Luther King” on Google this site was the third link presented. It probably got to be so high on the list because the address has “Martin Luther King” in it, so every time someone searches for Martin Luther King this site appears because it uses the exact words that the person wanted to search for.

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