Web Site #1

http://funschool.kaboose.com/

Authorship:
Copyright © Kaboose Inc. Funschool is a trademark of Kaboose Inc. All Rights Reserved.

It is a website provided by Family Fun (magazine)

Purpose:
“Kaboose’s mission is to improve the quality of family life by connecting parents and kids in a fun, educational and safe environment…enhancing both their online and offline time together.”
http://corporate.kaboose.com/mission.html

This site is an excellent resource for students looking for a place to turn for information. It is also a great resource for parents to show their children where they can explore and have fun on a safe and educational website. It is also a great resource for teachers to lead their students to for quizzes on a specific unit or a way to expand their information on a specific topic.


Subject:
• Science
• Math
• Geography
• Word Play
• Games
• Quizzes
• Coloring pages
• Activity Center
• Craft Ideas
• Teacher exchange
• Puzzles

Presentation:
This website is presented in such an eye catching and aesthetically pleasing way it really catches your attention. I think that students will find it entertaining and exciting and teachers can use it for so many different activities. It is easy to navigate you can search by grade level or by subject area. You can find so many different options on every topic. It also includes lots of good uses of technology. There are pictures that are animated and links to other helpful websites. The icons on the page move and make noise as you run your curser over them. It is just a very well done website overall.

Credibility:
I think that the information on this website is very credible because if you follow the links available to the other sponsored websites you can learn even more about the information. There are multiple choices for whatever you want to do. A lot of the games and activities you can know are credible just because the content is correct and accurate. I also think the professional look of the web page helps with its validity.

Currency:
Although there is no date listed when the website was last updated you know it is current because of the style of the website. I also know that they have updated it recently because I have used this website in the past and now it has an entirely new lay out which makes it a little more user friendly.

Links:
The links are all still current and they lead to other really helpful website. I could have found all 3 websites to write about just off of this one website because it had such helpful links for everything that I wanted to know.

Special Features:
This site is full of special features, it has many nice graphics and links and pictures and sounds. Things that really help children stay focused and work hard on what they are supposed to be doing. I think it is very learner centered where children can just explore for themselves and learn new things through playing games or doing art projects. I think that it is a very effective website.

Web Site Critic Column:
This is a fantastic website for teachers and students and parents. I would recommend it to anyone who was looking for some fun activities to do with students especially to help introduce them to online resources and technology. It is such a nice addition to use after teaching a lesson in the classroom because it presents some of the same information in new and exciting ways so the students will be more engaged in their learning. I would give this website an A+.