Award's Page
Nominate a site for the LAB Award.
Requirements
The Learning Abilities Books Award is given to family friendly web sites which help children develop their educational potential. Sites which are mainly for children are not included.
Sites may be created by teachers, parents, homeschoolers, school psychologists, counselors, nurses, social workers, and others.
If you prefer to exchange links without the award,
see details at add your educational link.
Web site editors need to do the following.
- Have more than just excellent links to other sites.
- Have content created by you which helps children develop their educational potential.
- More is needed than just items for sale regardless of the quality of the items although your site may be mainly for selling items.
- Have content about pre-k through 5th grade regular or special education.
- Focus on abilities more than disabilities.
- Target information to parents, teachers, and other educators
although some material which is directly for children is welcome.
- Check for accuracy of your information.
- Have links which work.
- Give credit to the creators of the graphics and the text. Remember that
free information and graphics are copyrighted even if graphics are part of a site building program. Usually, all you need to do is ask permission and make a link to the creator's site or provide other contact information.
- Be easy to navigate with clearly marked areas.
- Include the site owner's name and email address. School sites include grade, school name, city, and state (country if not USA).
- Have only family friendly material including the links from your site and web ring members.
- Observe rules of grammar, spelling, etc. in the content you write for the site.
- Teach students to polish their writing before publishing on the webite. This includes the mechanics of their writing such as correct grammar and spelling.
If you prefer to exchange links without the award,
see details at add your educational link.
Benefits and Directions
- If your site is chosen to receive the Learning Abilities Books
Award, you will be emailed the html fragment needed for posting the award.
- Your site will be listed among the winners.
- This listing will provide a link bringing new visitors to your site.
- The award provides a reciprocal link to The Learning Abilities Books site.
Site owners who disable the link, will no longer have their sites included on the list of winners.
If you have problems with the code, let me know.
- Place the award in one of these positions:
on the entry page to your site,
on the first page dealing with educational material,
or on a page which is clearly marked as a page of awards.
Nomination of a Site
Email: contactlab(AT)gate.net
replace (AT) with @
To avoid spam, I'm writing my email address this way.
Write "LAB Award" in the subject box of your email.
Send details about your site.
Include the following information.
Your full name:
Your email address:
The name of the site:
The complete site address: http://
Description:
Write a short third person description of your site's content. Do not describe links to content on other sites. Read the requirements for the award. Tell something specific, not the general statement that it is a resource for parents, teachers, and children.
See
descriptions of some of the award winning sites. You can close that window to return to this page.
For classroom sites:
School name, city, state (country if not USA):
Grade (K-5th, special classes, multi-age):
Your name, grade, school, city, and state, (or country) will be on the LAB site.
Your email address will be kept private.
If you prefer to exchange links without the award,
see details at add your educational link.
