Website Evaluation:

Each student will write a paper and give a brief in-class presentation based on one of the following websites.  Everyone will work on a different website.

Paper: Your paper should evaluate the site taking into consideration such things as the website's objectives, its audience, potential uses, and overall presentation.  While you are free to comment of the quality of the technology, your main goal should be to assess the website's content and its presentation of history.  You should decide whether the website offers an effective medium of "public history" and what makes it an effective or ineffective website.  You should conclude with suggestions for improving the website.

Presentation: Your presentation will give the class a short tour of the website, showing us the highlights of the website and taking us to places that illustrate the specific points you want to make.  I will have a laptop projector with internet access available in the classroom.  Make sure to rehearse your presentation so that you don't waste everyone's time and embarrass yourself (not to mention lose points) by getting lost in a website on which you are supposed to be an expert. 

List of Possible Websites:

1) History Channel Classroom: http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/index.html

2) The History Net: http://history.about.com/

3) Temperance and Prohibition: http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/

4) Eleanor Roosevelt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor

5) National Building Museum: http://www.nbm.org/ 

6) National Women's History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/

7) The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record: http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/

8) Gerald Ford Museum: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/

9) Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

10) The Learning Page: Oral History: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html

11) Common-Place (Early American History): http://www.common-place.org/

12) Liberty! The American Revolution: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

13) Colonial Williamsburg: http://www.history.org/

14) National Civil Rights Museum: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

15) History Central on the Web: http://www.worldwar1.com/

16) Picture History: http://www.picturehistory.com/

17) World War I, Trenches on the Web: http://www.worldwar1.com/

18) General Electric's Self History: http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/at_a_glance/hist_leader.htm