Website Eval.
I feel that the group that made this site has some bias about the topic. The site does not present much information about MLK other than the negatives. The negatives however that I did not know. Therefore, this site was useful to me. I am not sure how I feel about the site being used by a school. The information was at times pretty deragatory. Even on the main page the quotes about his last night before his death while he was in the hotel are vulgar and most definately inappropriate for someone who I feel is younger than 16 or 17 years old. If you use this site in a school you can’t guaratee that students who shouldn’t be seeing this site won’t be seeing it. Kids can learn to be less trusting of this site or sites like these because it is presented and run by a person or group not a credentialed organization; Although they do credit others when using their information.
I used the search engine msn.com to look for this site and it appeared 21st on the list. Mind you that is 21st out of 308,375. Pretty good if you ask me. I feel that it has become so high on the list becasue it is a controversial website. It shares things about the history of MLK that many other websites don’t present, for whatever reason. Becasue this site is controversial it draws the attention of people on a larger scale.
The domain name is .org therefore making it a less trustworthy and personal created and run site. This site contains a link to stormfront.org and this statement just happens to be as displayed at the top of the website -”Stormfront White Nationalist Community.” This most definately sheds light upon and around the bias of the website. This site could be viewed as a public service if the content can be verified as truthful. They do list the books in which some of their information presented on the website came from. This would not relate to my curriculum, I would not use it as a resource in my class however I might look into the books in which they say they found some of the information on the site. It is an appropriate site for possible HS juniors or seniors and college students but not any younger than that. The links for the most part add value to what they are trying to share but then again all the information on the site is negative and not positive. The site appears to be up to date and reads for mature ages easily. The site design I must say in my opinion is put together well and loads fast. The graphics appear to have been taken out of historical text and many have captions about the locations of the pictures and if they were taken from a book or document, etc which one. The links all worked for me but one. It was one of the downloadable PDF’s. Overall easily navigatible as well.
To sum it up this site is bias and would not be the best choice for teaching a class…as I stated earlier I feel I might use some of the other resources listed on the page to help my class learn about MLK!
