For my INAD502 class I had to type a reflection on Internet Resources for teaching. Surprisingly, there are a lot of good ones out there! If you're an English teacher there's readwritethink.org. This website has highly detailed, intricate, and innovative lessons on just about anything. The only downfall I noticed is that they might be difficult to translate from the author of the lesson's classroom to your own. For instance, it seems that they were written for a specific group of students at a specific time...as should've happened. Anyway, prepare to read a lot and tailor the lesson to your own classroom with this website. You will get good ideas though! The other thing about this website is that it offers free use of interactive graphic organizers and stuff. I'm not sure how effective these are, but trying them couldn't hurt.
Another really cool one I found was ed.gov, the US Department of State website. The resources here are free and there are soooo many! It's really effective if you want ideas for which authors to teach or works to combine. It seems like it'd be a great tool to access for unit planning. PBS Teachers is another good one. It offers a wide array of topics to choose from, whereas other websites I visited lacked this.
It's just cool to know what resources are out there literally at our fingertips. It's overwhelming how many tools are there to guide us, instruct us, and supplement our lessons. As a future teacher, I hope I make use of all of these e-resources. It seems like a shame not to.
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I actually just had do an Internet critique for one of my classes last week. It sounds very similar to what you had to do. We had to find 3 websites and give an in-depth analysis on them. One of the ones I actually used was readwritethink.org. And I think it's an awesome site as well. My content area is 1-6 Childhood and Special Ed. so I hope that site will be a great resource in the future.
I also used starfall.com which is another good one. It's an interactive site for children learning to read. So many vivid colors and icons and I found it to be an overall effective site.
The last site I used was the2sisters.com. Another great resourse for Language Arts. I focused this particular assignment on ELA and found that the Internet is a great resource for developing units, lessons, and creative ideas. However, as educators, we have to be very careful because there tends to be a lot of garbage out there as well...as I'm sure you are well aware =)
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