{"id":11979,"date":"2014-04-18T19:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2017-12-11T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:16:37","slug":"web-evaluation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/information\/web-evaluation-project","title":{"rendered":"Web Evaluation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Evaluation Criteria<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Readability<\/strong> &#8211; font, colors, layout<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audience<\/strong> &#8211; who is this written for<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use of images<\/strong> &#8211; do images add to information, are captions clear,\u00a0 too many or too few?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engagement<\/strong> &#8211; how visually appealing &#8211; why or why not<\/li>\n<li><strong>Links and structure<\/strong> &#8211; how do\u00a0 you know where you are &#8211; what the context is (if you&#8217;ve googled in)?\u00a0 Are there links to related articles within same site, external links, links to additional documentation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reliability<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 who sponsors the site, how are sources identified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\"><strong>Group 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/clio.fivecolleges.edu\/mhc\/banister\/a\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Five Colleges \u2013 Zilpah P. Grant Banister Papers<\/a><br \/>\nLook at main page, open a letter from the Letters by Banister, 1823-1874 group, pick one with a transcript and look original and transcript<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civilwar.archives.msu.edu\/collection\/7-1C-1D\/carpenter\/\">Michgian State University &#8211; Civil War<br \/>\n<\/a>This link opens directly to a letter, you can explore the site and look at the collections page &#8211; but mostly concentrate on the pages directly connected to the letter<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Group 3<\/strong><br \/><b><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.drexel.edu\/omeka-1.1\/exhibits\/show\/veterans\/the-early-years\">Drexel Scholars Who Served<\/a><br \/>\nBrowse the 2 pages, pick any letter<BR><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrary.vassar.edu\/fedora\/repository\/vassar:letters\" class=\"broken_link\">Vassar College &#8211; Student Letters<br \/>\n<\/a>Pick any letter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\"><strong>Group 2 <\/strong><BR><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bard.edu\/archives\/digitalcoll.php\">Bard College \u2013 Bard Family Papers<\/a><br \/>\nScroll down and select Bard Family Papers, open any letter<BR><\/p>\n<p>University of Virginia -Civil War &#8211; Henry A. Bitner<br \/>\nScroll down , pick any letter<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\"><strong>Group 4<\/strong><BR><b><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.stlawu.edu\/collections\/sunderland-family-correspondence\">St. Lawrence University- Sunderland Family Correspondence<\/a><br \/>\nClick on Browse Letters, select any letter<BR><\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Digital Library \u2013 Lafcadio Hearn Correspondence<br \/>\nPick any letter, page through the letter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1><b>Website Evaluation Questions<\/b><br \/>\nImagine you\u2019ve been assigned to write a paper that incorporates information from letters in this online collection.<\/h1>\n<p>What on the site made it easy (or hard) it to find information about who wrote the letter and what the letter is about?<\/p>\n<p>What on the site made it easy (or hard) to find the transcript?<\/p>\n<p>If there was cataloging information available, did it make sense?\u00a0 What do you think should be included? Would you rename any of the labels (Creator to Author)<\/p>\n<p>If there are links, are they useful?\u00a0 If there are no links, would the page be better with some?<\/p>\n<p>Any aspects of a website that made it more appealing than other sites?<\/p>\n<p>If there are images, do they add information to the page? If there are no images, would having some help?<\/p>\n<p>Any aspects of a site that made it hard to use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evaluation Criteria Readability &#8211; font, colors, layout Audience &#8211; who is this written for Use of images &#8211; do images add to information, are captions clear,\u00a0 too many or too few? Engagement &#8211; how visually appealing &#8211; why or why not Links and structure &#8211; how do\u00a0 you know where you are &#8211; what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24025,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions\/24025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}