I’ve mentioned Paula Petrik’s innovative use of blogs in history teaching here before. Now she’s doing a presentation (on “Crafting history for the Web”) in a session entitled “Picture This: Images, Visualization, and Design in History” at the OAH annual meeting, this Saturday (2 April), and she needs your help. There are two things you can do:
1. An exercise in evaluating six history websites, which should only take a few minutes:
According to available research, most website visitors make their decisions about the credibility or authenticity of the site in 10 seconds or less. The point of this excercise is to evaluate six sites in terms of their credibility or authenticity as a history site. Look at the following sites very briefly (no more than 10 seconds) and make your rating using the poll under the menu.
2. If you have a little more time, leave your comments about the websites at the Picture This blog. (You don’t need to comment on all six sites.)
6 comments on “Call for help: OAH presentation on history for the Web”
Thanks for the passing the word around, Sharon!
That was very very very very interesting.
It made me wish I was teaching web design to use it as an example. I hope they leave it up for a long time.
I’d guess that Paula will leave it up for as long as she has a website. She already has some great articles on her site. My favorite is the one on footnotes here:
http://www.archiva.net/footnotes/
Jeremy, I’m afraid I got a 404 from that link…
Oops, sorry, it’s http://www.archiva.net/footnote/.
Thanks, Jeremy. I’ve been using square brackets with a link to endnotes when needed on webpages (and asterisks have done the trick so far in blog posts where I’m keeping referencing to a minimum anyway), but I might have to try out some of the suggestions there; a bit less clunky! And go have a proper look round the site too.