Very few sites with catalogues of educational
reviews and evaluations are truly objective. They either have a
desire to sell their software or are beholden to the suppliers of
software to provided software to review. This must be taken into
consideration when reading reviews. These URLs are correct at the
time of writing. Catalogues of
websites where you had to pay were not included.
ORGANISATION |
DESCRIPTION |
| Educational Software Reviews |
A listing of educational software review sites |
| Learning Village |
A guide to first class learning software |
| Review Corner |
They choose the best educational software for children. When selecting outstanding educational software programs, they look for products that are thoughtfully designed and produced and that appeal to a child's humanitarian qualities - ones that offer positive, encouraging, and socially responsible experiences to the children who use them. These programs contain activities that promote imagination and creativity, as well as independent thought and exploration. |
California
Learning Resource Network |
The purpose of the California Learning Resource
Network is to provide a one-stop information source. It enables
Californian educators to identify supplementary electronic learning
resources that meet local instructional needs and embody the
implementation of Californian curriculum frameworks and standards.
You can search the database of electronic learning resource
reviews.
United States
No apparent commercial bias. |
| Children’s
Software Review |
They state “OUR MISSION is to provide unbiased
reviews, from an educational perspective, of any and all interactive
media products that a child might encounter during his or her
first 16 years of life."
United States
This website sells software. |
| CLA
Language Centre |
A university website which offers links
to resources on topics such as language software reviews, how
to evaluate language learning software and language software.
United States
No apparent commercial bias. |
| Edit
Microsystems |
Edit Microsystems is an educational software
dealer based in South Africa. Their web has links to reviews
and articles about the software they distribute and sell. Some
of the articles are information articles and not reviews.
This is a commercial website which reviews the software they
sell. |
| Edusoft
Contact Details |
Edusoft sells and distributes educational
software focusing on technology such as electronics, mechanical
and earth software.
South African
Most of the articles are descriptions about the software they
sell and not necessarily reviews. |
| Sherston
Software |
This website provides reviews of all the
software developed by this large software firm. The site lists
software and lesson plans for most software applications developed
by the firm.
British
This is a commercial website which reviews the software they
develop and sell. |
| Superkids
Educational Software Review |
SuperKids reviews and rates educational software based on
a developed set of criteria. Teams that include educators, parents,
and children from across the United States write their reviews.
You can search their database of reviews by subject or title.
United States
No apparent commercial bias. |
| Teem |
“TEEM is the leading independent evaluation service for educational
digital content in the UK. TEEM evaluations are written by practising
classroom teachers.”
British
The reviews may have a bias. This web catalogue of reviews is
dependent on publishers submitting their software to the firm
and paying a fee to having their software reviewed and listed. |
| WorldVillage |
WorldVillage is a virtual community for computing families.
The site bills itself as a "premier family-friendly site,"
and is filled with software reviews under a variety of categories
such as the School House, MultiMedia Cafe and the Internet Hotel.
United States.
No apparent commercial bias. |