Reliable or Unreliable?

In order to find a reliable and resourceful website there are many steps to follow.

First of all you must decide is it for an academic reason or purely for pleasure?

Once you have found a website to suit your reason of use you must be sure that you understand the URL at the end of the web address. When looking through the website you should look for different aspects to know that it is reliable. These are aspects such as links within the website and what they lead you to, the last time the website was updated and also the author or organisation.

You can check out the website to find out who owns it and also are there any other websites linked into it. This website is easyWhois

YOU need to decide whether the website is reliable or not for the purpose of the use!

Animation Website

Is this website useful in an educational context?

http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm

After looking around the website and testing it, this is what we thought:

It is easy to look around the website and make an animation.This website is very basic and colourful so therefore it would be ideal for children. An adult should be there with the child especially if the child is young because it can be complicated.It is not possible to embed the animation however it can be saved onto your computer. The clip art has a wide range of pictures that could be used for all premade backgrounds and can be moved around with ease, making the pictures too small can make the pictures pixelated.

Drawing your own pictures is possible but the paintbrushes are a bit too big for the space provided. Copying frames is easy and can be changed with ease if you decide to change the first frame.

In all it is a good starter animation website which is aimed for children with its sounds when clicking on the different options, this could be a good idea for children aged around 6-7, any younger needs adult supervision because not all the options are easily guessed in the eyes of a younger child.

Emma&Sarah