When searching the topic Nursery Rhymes with the search engine Altavista, I came up with three beneficial sites and three ineffective sites. I will first discuss the three beneficial sites and explain why they would be of use to me in my classroo m teaching. I will then discuss the three beneficial sites and the three ineffective sites I found when using the search engine Excite.

The first site that I found to be very useful to me was, Humpty Dumpty Web Text. This sight listed nine academic areas to which the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, could be incorporated into. Under each area, such as Language Arts, Science, and Ma th, there were a list of activities that the students would be able to carry out in the classroom. After reading through each area and the activities, I felt that I would be able to use most of these suggestions in my own classroom. This site was helpfu l and informative. The second site that I felt was useful was. Tookey Presents...Nursery Rhymes. I enjoyed this site because you could listen to the rhyme as well as read it in front of you. I found that this would be an enjoyable way for the students to learn about the different Nursery rhymes. I downloaded this site onto a disk. The third site that I found effective was, Fun Songs and Folk Songs. This site was useful to me because it no only gave you rhymes, but it listed songs I could use . On t his site you could find a new song list, a song index that was in alphabetical order, a lyrics section, and a family oriented song list. A few examples were: A Hunting We Will Go, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and Do Your Ears Hang Low?.

When searching on Altavista, I also found some ineffective or inappropriate sites to my search. The first one was Andrew Dice Clay Sound Bytes. This was definitely inappropriate for children. This site contained adult language used in Nursery R hymes and adult content. The second site that was of no use to me was, The Three Little Pigs. This site gave a brief summary of the new modern version of the Three Little Pigs. The story itself seemed as if it would be appropriate to be read to childr en, but the site itself was useless to me because it was just an advertisement for the storybook. I will however, keep it in mind for a future reference. The last site that I found inappropriate to my search was, A List of Teacher Handbooks.

I suppose if I was looking for a teacher's guide this site could be helpful to me, but it was not helpful to my search.

When searching the key words nursery+rhymes on the search engine Excite, I also came up with three helpful sites and three ineffective sites. The first effective site was, Nursery Rhyme List. This site listed Nursery Rhymes and Riddles in alphab etical order. Not only were the rhymes and words listed, but so were the fingerplays that went along with the rhymes. Extra verses to the songs ere also given. I enjoyed this site tremendously and I received many teaching ideas from it. The next helpf ul site was Children's Literature Spots. I think out of all of the sites this one was the best. It was educational, colorful, and exciting. It linked you to nine other sites on the web, such as Dr. Seuss, Jump Rope Rhymes, and Nursery Rhymes. This was an interactive site for the children to use.

The three sites that I found to be inappropriate are as follows. The first one being, Re-Nazi Rhymes. The name should speak for itself. This site gave examples of neo-Nazi song lyrics. The only educational gain from this site might be to use i t when teaching your class about the Holocaust, but be cautious.

The second site was, The Grateful Dead and Nursery Rhymes. On this site you could locate songs by the Grateful Dead that were created with the influence of a Nursery Rhyme and a quick summary of each song was given. It was also stated that rhymes hav e been influencing music was before the time of the Grateful Dead. One example would be Mairzy Doats from the 1930's. The last site that I found to be inappropriate to my search was Re:Please Critique:Names Do Hurt. I choose to speak about this site bec ause I had spent some time reading the rhyme, Names Do Hurt, by Charles Wolf. One verse that sticks in my mind was,

"Children's nursery rhymes are fantasies, 'cause names do hurt, of yeah names do hurt". 'This rhyme was a powerful piece to read.

When completing this search I found that both search engines were user friendly and responded quickly to my key words. I did however feel that the search engine Excite not only gave me back a larger amount of sites, but also more accurate and val id sites.