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Good example of Christopher Columbus website.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus I found the website by searching Google for the phrase Christopher Columbus (in quotations). And actually the wikipedia article was the first search result. I feel that this is a good website because it displays a host of information while still including pictures, maps ,and portraits among other things related to Columbus’s life and travels. Although this website isn’t as interactive as some, I feel that it displays the information in a way which is easy to understand and the pictures aid to the understanding. In addition, if an individual doesn’t understand a particular word or phrase in the text of the website chances are there is a link on that word, allowing for the discovery of what said word is.

Bad example.
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/walk/walk_columbus.html This website is really a very poor example of using the media as an effective tool for research or really any learning whatsoever. This website if fully interactive, as you answer 10 different questions which if you answer all ten correctly the teacher who was standing on the plank of a pirate ship is pushed off by a red boxing glove. This may be fun to waste time on but the informational content is horrible. For example after going through the game a couple of times I discovered that there are around 15 questions that repeat themselves every time, resulting in the learning of 15 small pieces of information that in some instances seem to have really no important research value whatsoever. Also due to the poor construction and lack of information this page was a bit harder to find. To find it I searched the words Christopher Columbus interactive in Google and this site was halfway down the page.

6-7-07, web exemplars, levi huseman
Rules for examinating a website - Does the site have reliable information presented in an easy to understand manner? - Does the site have additional media to help explain some of the information presented? - Is the site cluttered with unneccessary things(advertisements, pictures, porn)? - Is the site easy to navigate?

Review of peer's choices Good website- Although this website probably displayes information that is valid, i didnt' feel that it was easy to understand in the way in which they presented it. The site was very easy to navigate having the introduction page, but the site was so cluttered with addition, useless stuff that i didn't know what to click on at times. overall i thought the site was on medium quality.

Bad website- the site was poorly constructed. The site was not easly navigatable which can cause problems when comming back to the site to find information. Also the site was very bland, it was void of any media to help explain concepts or ideas that were not clearly presented or just not understood by an individual. Additionally, the site seemed to be lacking in informational content.