About EDSITEment: Website Selection Criteria
Intellectual Quality
- Does the site provide rich, deep, multi-layered humanities content?
- Does it provide the student access to authentic, worthwhile materials with precise references and clear content?
- Do the author or authors have appropriate scholarly qualifications?
- Is the information accurate, balanced, and updated frequently?
- Is the site unique, or is the material more easily available elsewhere?
Website Design
- Is the site user-friendly and attractive graphically?
- Is it easy to access information from different parts of the site?
- Does the site provide for more than a one-dimensional exposition, allowing students to experience a continuum of working with the materials towards greater sophistication and creativity?
- Does the site allow for an active, constructive relationship to the material?
- If teacher guides or exercises are available, do they tap the resources of the site deeply? (Note: such resources are not a requirement.)
- If the site requires additional hardware or software, are plug-ins available?
- Are links to other related sites easy and accessible?
- Does the site have any special features to attract or engage users?
Website Impact
- Can this site serve multiple audiences or is it highly specialized?
- Are you aware of any particular uses it would have in the curriculum of a school or college?
- Does the content relate to education standards developed by your state?
- If you use this site in your teaching, for which courses and what kinds of assignments or student projects is it most useful?
- Does the site engage students and encourage them to develop active interest and mastery of the subject area?
- Is this the best or one of the best sites that you know of in this subject area?
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