Dogwood:
January 7, 2000 What can a site be about? What we study (Myers Briggs, Web Design, Troy, Versailles Treaty) What we teach (Reading, Interpersonal Communications, French, Chinese, American History, Law) What we know (Career Planning, Vietnam, Movies, Cooking,) A site can be hugely complex, produced by many people with lots of funding A site can be a long-time project of a single teacher A site can be an entire WWW course Or a course and supporting materials A site can be a stand-alone support module for a course, such as: What sorts of materials might a faculty site contain? Materials the webmaster has created to use for teaching instructional handouts timelines, tables and graphs personal photos and art audio clips of oral interviews personal writing What other sorts of materials might a faculty site contain? Non-copyrighted materials from others clip art (some, not all) images and texts from19th century and earlier (some, not all) photos (from friends, colleagues, some archives) materials from government archives (some, not all) student writing (with permission) video clips of classroom activities (with permission) Copyrighted materials IF permission is granted be sure the person or organization granting permission has the right to do so Organized, annotated lists of links to other sites but not more than "fair use" snippets of text or images copied from those sites, unless you have explicit permission from a person who has the right to grant that permission A web site is part of the entire WWW its content should reflect that global context do not recreate the wheel--link to it, but... don’t count on any given link being there next time Students surf around the world on the WWW they can be guided, but not protected select appropriate links and annotate them critically require students to evaluate sites they visit Content Responsibilities of a Web Master thematic unity--the site is all about one topic readability--both see-able and read-able links usefully organized and annotated links of high quality and consistency clear navigation a web-master’s hotlinked name regularly updated links and date of last revision
Some Elements of a Poor Site dead links out of date pages unclear navigation inconsistent quality (a fifth grader’s paper along with professional materials) no webmaster no date of last revision
The WWW is public and global always check materials for scholarly accuracy and currency your WWW site will turn up on searches people from all over the world will read your WWW site
(c) Diane Thompson: Last updated: 1/6/2000 |