Internet4Classrooms Literacy Website Review #4: By Saileen Fango

Friday, January 6, 2023

Internet4Classrooms Literacy Review:

The Internet4Classrooms website (www.internet4classrooms.com) is an interactive learning website that offers free educational resources for PreK-12 teachers, parents, and others. Currently, the Internet4Classrooms is actively using two technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include Organization Schema and Apple Whitelist. This website has contributed and impacted many lives connecting educators and families through accessibility, engagement, expertise, and digital educational materials for pre-K to grade 8. In addition, the Internet4Classrooms website is a collaborative effort to extend assistance to parents and educators. This website has a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matters areas both in the class and at home and even online technology tutorials.

The Internet4Classrooms provides a portal that is accessible for teachers, parents, and students of all ages on six of the seven continents, and it is available to anyone with an internet connection with free subscription fee. Significantly, the website is an effective literacy teaching tool that has a lot of helpful links to standards, printable's, or click on links for PreK-12 to get ideas of good sites. Most importantly, this website is always ready to offer educators, parents, and learners assistance on educational subject matter, computer assistance, and blog posting.

The website’s homepages take you to a variety of options accessing lots of standardized assessments assistance, technology integration, productive strategies for internet searches, using excel to analyze data, effective use of PowerPoint in the classroom, and making effective use of the internet in the classroom. In addition, the homepage options allow access to different subjects, genre, theme, grade, programs, books, libraries, digital, and category that includes classroom books, classroom materials, professional growth, and digital and audio instructional tools that can be used to incorporate in a classroom, at home, and an online course.

The website also features Common Core State Standards, Online Practice, Printable Worksheets, Grade Level Help for PreK through 8th Grade, Links for PreK-12, Technology Skills, Assessments & Testing, Daily Dose of the Web, Lesson Plans, and On-site Trainings for Teachers for all subject areas to promote and develop student learning.

Furthermore, the Internet4Classrooms website is a good resource of links to lesson plans and web-based activities for teachers and parents. Some of the links I explored take me to lesson plans that may necessarily integrate technology, but are useful, nonetheless. The most useful section about the Internet4Classrooms is the Language Art selection. Significantly, the Elementary Language Arts options that take you to verified links that give educators, parents, and learners access to letter writing, reading, books and novels, and reading comprehension. Most importantly, features on how to impact student literacy using a variety of internet tools that can help develop student reading and writing skills. Overall, this website is a great site for students, parents, and educators that educate on how to use the internet effectively for educational purposes.