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SITES This is an amazing WEB site that provides documents, artifacts and other aspects of the famous Seventeenth-Century Colonial New England, with Special Emphasis on the www.pequotmuseum.org The museum is wonderful. If you can’t get there, at least visit the neat web site. Archaeology Comes to the Rescue of a Seventeenth-Century Shipwreck www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/phips/wreck01.htm A comprehensive web site of the Parks Canada excavations of the Elizabeth and Mary, the ship carrying the Hawthorne This NEH-funded web site obviously focuses a bit later than the colonial era. However, it includes many earlier materials, since much of it is devoted to DoHistory www.dohistory.org An NEH funded web site, which shows how to “do” history, using the case study of Martha Ballard, the ca. 1800 midwife whose diary formed the basis of Laurel Ulrich’s pulitzer-prize winning book, and popular PBS video, The Midwife’s Tale. Much of it is designed specially to be used by teachers and students. <> Plymouth This site contains much of the archaeological and material culture research of James Deetz, so if you like his books, you will love this site. Includes numerous complete probate inventories for Plymouth Colony. <>Colonial House web site. www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html <>Historic Essex at <>Osher Map Library, <>Yale Map collection <>John Carter Brown Library Images of Early www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html MUSEUM
WEB SITES Collections include the Freakes, and other wonderful paintings. <>Museum of Fine Art www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp Probably the most extensive collection of early National
Gallery of Art www.nga.gov/collection Historic
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PEDAGODGY Center for History and New Media http://chnm.gmu.edu/ <> National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Your task is
to go on-line on
the World Wide Web and to write a detailed critique of a minimum of two
historical web sites. Take sometime to
check out a variety of sites, and find a least a couple that you like.
In your
reviews, be sure to give the site name, address, a general description
of the
content, and your editorial comments (why the site was effective or
not,
whether the information was accurate, how useful was it to our course,
etc). Be
sure to be critical in your analysis. Please try to pick a site that is
large
enough to really say something about. Due
in class on February 4, approximately
four pages in length. Specifically, your review should address the
following: Content What is the authority of the site? .edu – educational .org – tends to be non-profit organization .com – commercial .net – network, also commercial .gov - government How credible is the site? Can you tell who is responsible for the site? Who hosts it? Is it a personal page, or an organization’s page? Does it give full names, and contact information? <>What is the purpose of the site? Why was it created? <> How current is the site information? Can you tell when it was last updated? Do site links work? <>Does it cite its sources? Does it have a bibliography, or other print sources? Are there typos or grammatical errors? <>Has it won any awards? Is it reviewed by sites like the Merlot Project (www.merlot.org/Home.po) or Scout Report (http://scout.wisc.edu/) ? How many sites link to it? (Go to google and type “link:” and the url). <>Is the site well organized? Are there navigation markers throughout? Can you easily determine where the information you want is? Does it have an effective front page? Does it provide a good site summary? Does it attract your attention? <>Does it make sensible use of graphics? Does it have excessive “noise”? Does it load in reasonable time? Does it have consistency of design? |
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