The website I evaluated is SFS Kids: Fun With Music. The site was created by the San Francisco Symphony Education Department and is free to all to come and explore. To get the most out of your experience with the site, they recommend that you install Flash5 and Quicktime because naturally it involves a lot with music. They provide links to go and download these for free and is very easy to understand.
My overall recommendation for this website in the use of a K12 classroom is very high. It is targeted towards K-5 students and meets every important qualification on the TPTE class' evaluation list and for my personal standards. For young children, an educational website needs to be easy to navigate and engaging and this website goes above and beyond in achievement of these goals. Its supplements also meet all of the National Standards required for K-5 music education. The music theory, which children may view as silly facts, are presented in such unique ways that the children are engaged and can assimilate the new information with things they already know. I am very happy to see this. For instance, the site encourages the students to imagine “measures” as being houses. This makes a lot of sense and they students will be able to relate and retain the information quickly and effectively. Plus, did I mention that it is a lot of fun?
I would definitely use this website in my own classroom. I've seen a teacher use educational computer games during downtime and during evaluation time. She would evaluate some students on an individual performance and have the other students to play on the games instead of having "dead time". I would def. use it in that form.
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