Web Evaluation

High School Spanish

Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com 

      This is a great website for practicing the fundamentals of a language. It is a game app on the phone as well as a website. It is very user friendly. 

• Currency: The company won the iPhone Best App of the Year award in 2013. There have also been various studies published by the team from the year 2014-2016. They have been working to add more languages.
• Relevance: The app is very easy to use. It starts from basic vocabulary words and progresses into sentences. This app would serve as extra homework practice.
• Authority: There have been articles published from various universities about the effectiveness of Duolingo and also their language learning model.
• Accuracy: The site is accurate in the way that it will not teach you the wrong words. The grammar and vocabulary it teaches are correct. However, since Spanish is a very complex language that has many lexical changes depending on region it is nearly impossible to be 100% accurate. 
• Purpose: The purpose is to teach a basis of a new language. Their motto is that you can learn a new language by doing 5 minutes of Duolingo a day. 

http://spanish4teachers.org/

This site provides lesson plans and PowerPoint for Spanish teachers.

• Currency: The founder started the website in 2009 and allows for teachers to share lesson plans and other materials so it is updated quite frequently. 
• Relevance: The site is easy to maneuver. It has tabs that mark lesson plans, quizzes, culture, and within those tabs are subcategories that dive in deeper to a subject. 
• Authority: The website is managed by an IB Spanish teacher. She has a disclaimer that they do their best to make sure all the information is accurate but admit it is nearly impossible. The site does have authority because it takes information from many experienced professionals in the field. 
• Accuracy: The site offers a disclaimer that not all the information is completely accurate so it warns to use the information with a grain of salt. It is still a useful site for a knowledgeable reader who can identify mistakes. 
• Purpose: The purpose is to enhance learning across the country. The author's mission statement says that collaboration enhances learning.