AwesomeLibrary

AWESOME LIBRARY! http://www.awesomelibrary.org/


 * Awesome Library** organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

====Here is the view of the main page upon arrival to the website: ====

The home page is set up with a basic search box of the Awesome Library catalogue, and also has a series of links to different school learning disciplines and age groups that lead to different caches of information relevant to the topic selected.



When searching on the main page for the common term "kangaroo", the following results appeared:



Unfortunately, there was only one search result for the term, and that link went to a page that no longer existed. Perhaps the database of websites to search is not maintained or checked particularly often. Despite this, following the link underneath the **categories** sub-heading led me to a page with a list of websites and journal articles related to Australia and the Pacific, and in that list i was able to find information, pictures and lesson plans about Australian wildlife.

So despite the actual search function appearing to be unreliable, the actual cache of information offered on the page is vast and of high quality, if you don't mind looking for it yourself.



Overall, despite the website not functioning particularly well as a search engine for the keyword tested, it proved itself to be an excellent resource and database for teachers, as it allows easy access to lesson plans, worksheets and information directly related to school disciplines.

Due to this, I have decided to rate the search engine facet of Awesome Library...

__**2 STARS OUT OF 5**__

This is partly due to the poor result I obtained with my test search, but upon further searching it proved to work well on occasion, but was very hit-and-miss with accurate results.

However, I have decided to rate the resources facet of Awesome Library...

__**4 STARS OUT OF 5**__

After initially exploring the website, I discovered some very useful lesson plans and worksheets that would be excellent for integrated thematic teaching, and the layout of the website was easy to follow and the information was easy to retrieve.

