JoLynn's+Web+Evaluations

= Web Evaluations = Title: Sensory World and Sensory Rooms

Site URL: @http://www.sensoryworld.org/

Comments: This site is a very interactive website for children with special needs. When you log on you push the enter button and then you can enter the "house". Inside the house you can go into the kitchen. In the kitchen you can learn health and safety, hygiene, and nutrition. The health and safety portion of the kitchen teaches children the important safety precautions that should be taken while in the kitchen. The hygiene portion teaches kids about germs and the importance of keeping things clean. The nutrition section has a menu for the whole week that kids can plan out their meals and snacks. There is a money manager section that will help teach kids how much money they have. There is a sensory room that could help autistic kids especially. They can pick different backgrounds and music and such. There is a music room that teaches kids different instruments, what they are called, and what they sound like. Some limitations of the site would be that it doesn't necessarily have specific general subject areas to teach the child science or history ect. I would be willing to use this site for my classroom. I would use it for music, or counting money. The sensory room is a great spot to have autistic children go because it can help them see and learn so much. This website will also work for a touchscreen computer which would be great for kids as well.

I thought this website was really great for children with special needs. It would allow children to be more independent, because it explains what to click through various icons. I think for the few areas it has, it is an excellent website to use for children with special needs. I do agree that that is the drawback to this site, it has limited subject areas. I would use this website in my teaching career. (JRK)

Title: Do2Learn

Site URL: http://www.do2learn.com

Comments: This site is also an interactive site for kids. It has activities for children like time sequence games, card games, shape recognition, and many more. It has songs that will play on the computer for the child about school and songs that teach them how to say their sounds. They also have sing-a-long songs. It has coloring pages for kids and a safety section that has games for children to learn all about safety and such from it. Some limitations that the site seems to have is that some of it loads a little bit slow, java must be installed on the computer and some students might not have access to it. The site was directed at kids but, there were things on there for educators and parents which made it a little bit more difficult to navigate through. I might give the site address to parents to direct their kids at home on the site. It would probably take a little more one on one time with the children because it was a little bit harder to go through. It would be good to have parents look through this site with their child also because they would probably learn a lot as well.

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