For this assignment I really had to learn how to navigate the site. It was interesting to see how they were all very similar in some aspects in not in the others.I enjoyed EducationWorld the best because I feel like it had the most to offer. I found it fairly easy to navigate and found myself looking around for a long time. The website I enjoyed the least was SREB because it was not very eye-catching and not user friendly to me. I also enjoyed Superkids and how their review teams were made of parent, teachers, and students. I like that they are gathering data from all aspects. I think I might trust their reviews the most. California Learning Resource Network seemed pretty straight forward to me. I liked some of their aspects like the newsletter and how their search of the different resources seemed easy to do as well.
I am not 100 percent sure on all of my answers to the questions. I continued to look through the websites and the sitemaps but did not find definite answers to all of them. This is what I believe them to be:
1)Which of these sites evaluate the largest number of titles? SREB gave the exact number to be around 10,000. The others did not give a number from what I can see, but seemed to have a lot of reviews.
2)Which sites are the most recently updated? I would say CLRN because it updates its newsletter every month and has the one for November 2011.
3)Which sites include reviews submitted by site visitors? This was also a tricky one. I know on Superkids it states the reviews are a team, and on CLRN there is a pretty lengthy process to become a reviewer. I actually did not find a site that allowed visitors to submit reviews.
4)Which sites would you use to learn about software you were considering for your students? I would use CLRN and Superkids because I believe them to be the easiest to search software and navigate their sites.
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