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Website: Best Websites for Elementary Teachers
www.wmtps.org/techini/bestsite/bestsite.html
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This website is intended for elementary school teachers. It offers numerous amounts of information for teachers. It gives out different websites for elementary teachers to look at and use for their classroom. The website gives different teachers names and where they teach and the grade they teach. These teachers explored the web and found numerous amounts of information that would be very useful for teachers that teach in the elementary school level. This really helps out other teachers from having to look all over the web trying to find things that would be useful in the classroom, they only have to go to this one website and it has everything they could possibly think of. This website is very easy to navigate because it tell you exactly what the different websites are about, so all you have to do is scroll down and search for whatever you may think could be useful for your classroom. It also uses different colors of font so you can tell the difference between things. The only thing about this website that I would change would be that its way too long. Some of the websites they use are similar to other websites, so they could have chosen the best website between the two and used that one for their website. Other than that, the website is very useful and helpful for elementary school teachers that teach any grade level.
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To: Webmaster
From: Adrianne Ashley
Subject: Website Improvements
Hello Webmaster,
I am a recent elementary education major and I was exploring the web trying to find things for me to teach my students when I begin student teaching. I found your website very useful and helpful for me. I examined your website very thoroughly and found something that may help you improve your website. However, my usefulness may not be what you are looking for to improve your website.
The website is very well organized and very easy to navigate. However, the website could use some more pictures and a better background other than just a white background. Using bright and colorful colors on your website will make people that are searching the web, want to really look at your page and enjoy looking at it. The way you have the website laid out is very useful, just adding some more color and animations will draw the readers attention to more of your website.
Another useful tip I can offer you is to narrow the websites down just a bit. Some of the websites are similar to other ones. I would suggest that you look at both websites that seem similar and choose the one that seems to have the most information on what your trying to show to the teachers and delete the other website. Also, the websites that you decide that aren’t that useful, you could make a list of them at the bottom of your website saying “More useful websites if needed.” This way it will make your website not as long as it is now.
Your website is very well laid out for me to find exactly what I am looking for. I think that other readers will find it very useful as well because, it has titles telling you what each website you are providing is about. This website has a great amount of information and very useful websites that you are providing to all the teachers. I hope that you will consider using my helpful tips for your website. These tips I believe will bring more readers to your website and they will enjoy looking at it as well.
Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy reading my tips.
Thank you,
Adrianne Ashley
White backgrounds ARE hard to look at for any amount of time. I say a similar thing in my posting this week.
ReplyDeleteAdrianne, I like the advice you offer the webmasters in your letter. I agree with both you and Adam that the white background is pretty glaring, and the way they have their text aligned, there's a lot of white space on the right side of the page that's really hard on the eyes. The one suggestion I'd make about your letter is don't diminish yourself in the first paragraph with that line about "my usefulness may not be what you are looking for to improve your website." I think as long as you aren't rude in your suggestions (and you weren't) they'll value your input. I also agree that the list of sites is WAY too long. Like you, I'd suggest cutting it down or else rearranging it in some way so that the list is less daunting.
ReplyDeleteGood work this week.