Net Frog

Net Frog (http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog2/)

Net Frog is a website which allows the user to interact with a simulation of disecting a frog.

Here is an image of the first screen you are brought to:

 It tells you why you should disect a frog, offers resources and research towards frog disection. This is very useful if you are not familiar with what the site is about and even if you are knew to learning biology.

As you begin to flick between each slide, you may notice that the website looks very basic, almost as if it was made by Microsoft Front Page. It could do with being updated to look modern and maybe a little bit more elegant or classy to compensate for the people that find frog disection an unsettling subject.

However, despite the lack of artistic vision, each slide comes complete with a clear heading putting each step in to a nutshell, and giving you more detail in little bullet points. So despite the basic look of the website it is proving itself to be clear and straight to the point providing at least some clarity for the user.

If you have a reading disability or are just to lazy to read the steps it provides on each slide, you may notice the cute little audio clip, or 'narrative' as they call it. This will also come in useful for auditory learners. Some slides even provide a video for people who like seeing frogs corpses being totally destroyed and for those who learn better through visual aids.

If you are new to the linguistics of biology or more specificaly frog disection, certain key words are highlighted in blue and underlined. Upon the act of clicking these words a new window will be opened to give you a definition of that word.

There are also images next to the slide showing you where the knife should go, what organs are where etc.

Out of the ridiculous large sum of slides it provides, it finally gives you a review of what you've been doing and encourages you to keep learning by providing you with links to revision sites etc.

Overall, it makes a good but somewhat flawed attempt at looking classy, it needs visual updates (how the page looks, the layout is simple but effective (yeah I know that's a cliche phrase that middle school students use when describing things) but it's true. It's clear, not over complicated, it's great for finacially challenged schools and easy to learn from for people with minor disabilities.

HOLY LORD THIS POST WAS GOOD.