Message from gmzarou

[Anonymous]

Have any of you guys found this website useful?

http://www.historyforkids.org/

Founded in 1995 as a community service learning project about Rome and Greece at Portland State University in Oregon, this site now seems to cover all of Europe, Asia, and Africa, up until 1500 (CE). There's definitely a wealth of information here, and the site aims to be kid-friendly, but....I don't know, I'm not sure how valuable this would be in the classroom.

For one thing, it's very ad-heavy, and if you're using outdated computers (as most of our students are) it's very slow. In some cases, the ad takes up more space than the column, implicitly sending the message that the ad is more important than the text. And I find the text itself a little too simplified.

Maybe this would be useful as an "into" activity, just to get kids interested and spark a few ideas, but I'm not sure that it's the most educational site out there.

thoughts?

m@x