evaluating blogs

before taking this class, it never occurred to me to find out the author of a website.  i just looked to see if the site had relevant material and made sure it was ok for kids.  i could see how this is important because you could have a good webmaster that makes a web page look great, but the information on that page could be completely inaccurate.  we need to be sure that the author is someone that has the credentials and information to back up what they are saying.

another thing i didn't really think about was dead ends.  i remember one time during a music career unit we used a school appropriate search engine, but it had a lot of dead ends and blocked areas of the site.  if i had checked that out ahead of time, the students and i could have avoided a lot of frustration. 

in the end i found a cool website that i put in as a link just because i've always wanted to try that.  i hope everyone has fun playing with the San Fransisco Symphony Site.