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eMedia: 1. What kind of information does this site contain? This site contains video, audio, images, text documents, and interactive resourses. It contains everything from "Being French" to "Keyboarding Education" and "NetSafe" to the "Coral Reef". It allows you to search for Media type, Utah Core Cirriculum, Series, grade level, and tutorials.

2. What is the quality of information? How current is it? Everything I looked at seemed to be high quality and student friendly. Most of the media was from the 2000's.

3. How easy is this resource to navigate? It was easy to find the subjects I was looking for by using the search and right hand bar with the different classification searches also. You are able to do a broad search or narrow it down to the item you want.

4. How would you use this site as an educator? It has content for the Utah Core Cirriculum that would be nice to have as an educator. You could have the video links set up in your computer lab for the children to watch or include them in your lessons. It gives you lots of resources to improve your own knowledge of a topic.

5. How would you have your students use this site? You could link the items you want your students to explore to your wiki page for easy access to it. It is a good resourse for research assignments or family activities. emedia

Library of Congress: 1. What kind of information does this site contain? The library of congress is the most amazing American history site. It contains almost everything there is to know about history. It contains webcasts, collections, newspapers, prints, photographs, history, maps, manuscripts and more.

2. What is the quality of information? How current is it? A large selection of very good information. It looked like they took a lot of time to gather good quality articles, videos and photographs for the site. Most of the information sites were very current.

3. How easy is this resource to navigate? It was pretty easy to navigate through. If you know exactly what your looking for you just search and it will find it or something close.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">4. How would you use this site as an educator? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When teaching children about america this is probably hands down the best place to get your information. You know it will be historically correct. You will be able to use the videos to really show kids what life was like back in the early days of america and film. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">5. How would you have your students use this site? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I think if you are teaching older kids this is a very valuable place for research and reports. They will be able to look up almost anything in American history and apply it to their learning. Library of Congress

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">CultureGrams: 1. What kind of information does this site contain? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This site contains almost everything you need to teach about any country in the world. It contains information on background, people, customs, lifestyle, and society. Each main topic breaks down into more detailed individual topics. The kids editions makes it easier for young learners to understand and learn.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2. What is the quality of information? How current is it? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">All the information I looked at was at least updated in 2011. It is very acurate information and the pictures are of good quality.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3. How easy is this resource to navigate? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Navigation was very simple. The menues were simple and easy to find.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">4. How would you use this site as an educator? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This site will be great for World history or Geography lessons. You are able to print off all the information and the maps of the country load in black & white making it easy to print for the class to use. You can use the statistics in math also.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">5. How would you have your students use this site? <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is another very valuable place for research and reports. They will be able to look up almost anything in American history and apply it to their learning. Children can use this site to learn about their ancestry and what that country is like now. <span style="color: #0c0c75; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">CultureGrams