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The website Crickweb.co.uk- primary interactive resources is an interactive site designed to provide activities on many subjects to enhance an educator’s lesson plans and thus student learning. The author of this site can be contacted via the Contact link provided in the case of any questions or comments. In fact, they approve some longtime users’ requests to share activities they have created on this site. Dan Bunker actually writes the resources for this site but he works with his brother to design the site. He appears to be more than qualified for this role. Bunker actually runs a business in the United Kingdom that hires trained, experienced tutors to work with educators in the classroom to learn how to use their technology tools correctly and how to include these resources in relevant ways to enhance learning. He is familiar with the standards for learning in the UK and provides resources (for free) on this site to enhance students’ opportunities to reach them. While the author does include links to his private business this does not appear to be completely for advertisement purposes. In fact, this appears to be more to validate the website by providing the user with his qualifications. The purpose of the website seems pretty straightforward. The activities are free as well as hundreds of links they provide to access more free material. The site uses technology to enhance learning! While no date is posted for the updates to the site it is clear that it is worked on routinely. For instance, each month they add the prior month’s most popular links. This can be very helpful to educators because often links are the most popular because they are the most helpful. All of the links to activities I tried are still active and easy to use. While there is advertising on the page they, themselves, do not have any product they appear to be selling. It really is a free service. This site is going to be helpful to me in developing my unit on Body Parts. The interactive activities allow the children to practice putting body parts where they belong and I can incorporate positional vocabulary into the activity by having them talk me through the activity. The children can create the body for an alien or apply appendages to a “scary spud.” This site seems fun, interesting, and helpful. As for reliability I can’t see how it could prove unreliable. I am using it to ENHANCE a lesson not necessarily use it as a lesson in itself. I have the option of picking and choosing the activities from the site I feel will most benefit my students and creating a creature by putting body parts on it allows for creativity (they get to choose earrings, nail polish, etc.) and the basics of identifying the proper locations for body parts.
The website Crickweb.co.uk- primary interactive resources is an interactive site designed to provide activities on many subjects to enhance an educator’s lesson plans and thus student learning. The author of this site can be contacted via the Contact link provided in the case of any questions or comments. In fact, they approve some longtime users’ requests to share activities they have created on this site. Dan Bunker actually writes the resources for this site but he works with his brother to design the site. He appears to be more than qualified for this role. Bunker actually runs a business in the United Kingdom that hires trained, experienced tutors to work with educators in the classroom to learn how to use their technology tools correctly and how to include these resources in relevant ways to enhance learning. He is familiar with the standards for learning in the UK and provides resources (for free) on this site to enhance students’ opportunities to reach them. While the author does include links to his private business this does not appear to be completely for advertisement purposes. In fact, this appears to be more to validate the website by providing the user with his qualifications. The purpose of the website seems pretty straightforward. The activities are free as well as hundreds of links they provide to access more free material. The site uses technology to enhance learning! While no date is posted for the updates to the site it is clear that it is worked on routinely. For instance, each month they add the prior month’s most popular links. This can be very helpful to educators because often links are the most popular because they are the most helpful. All of the links to activities I tried are still active and easy to use. While there is advertising on the page they, themselves, do not have any product they appear to be selling. It really is a free service. This site is going to be helpful to me in developing my unit on Body Parts. The interactive activities allow the children to practice putting body parts where they belong and I can incorporate positional vocabulary into the activity by having them talk me through the activity. The children can create the body for an alien or apply appendages to a “scary spud.” This site seems fun, interesting, and helpful. As for reliability I can’t see how it could prove unreliable. I am using it to ENHANCE a lesson not necessarily use it as a lesson in itself. I have the option of picking and choosing the activities from the site I feel will most benefit my students and creating a creature by putting body parts on it allows for creativity (they get to choose earrings, nail polish, etc.) and the basics of identifying the proper locations for body parts.
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