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For each B. AWARE criterion listed below, write a paragraph addressing all questions for that criterion listed on the Ida B. AWARE webpage. Give evidence to support your answers, i.e. what do you base your conclusions on? Use the Website Evaluation Checklist to ensure you have addressed all required components of the assignment.


 * Part 1: Martin Luther King Website Assessment**

Bias: This site is a hate site ran by a white supremacist group. The website prints slander against Martin Luther King Jr. concerning his life, activism, and death.

Author: Stormfront

When and where: Modified January 15, 2010

Accuracy: The site is not accurate in its depiction of Martin Luther King Jr. and provides no balanced argument, only one opinion and sources that directly agree with that opinion. The site does not include any information on Civil Rights or Martin Luther King’s role as the leader of this movement.

Readability: The website is easy to read and appears to look like an educational site for students listing topics such as historical writings, MLK Jr.’s death, and

Educational Value: This website does have educational value for a high school class after a background on Civil Rights has been covered in class. The site represents how people, including historians, can misrepresent history. It can also show students how race is still a relevant issue and Civil Rights is an ongoing movement and debate in the United States.


 * Part 2: Educational Website Assessment**

Website 1: World War II

Content Area and Grade Level: Social Studies, 8th Grade Website Name: World War II Website URL: http://www.worldwar-2.net/index.htm Website Description: This website provides a detailed timeline in the year leading up to WWII and a day by day timeline of the events occurring in WWII from 1939-1945

Bias: The site does not appear to have a bias as it does not state an opinion but rather lists the events in chronological order for both the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers.

Author: The website does not provide any information of who created the site or who owns it.

When and where: Last modified April 29, 2011

Accuracy: The website does not include any citation of where the information is from or what credibility it offers. There is no way of knowing if the author of the site has any background in military history of where the information is coming from. The site does provide a number of links for further research on Axis Powers, Allied Powers, and general information on WWII. The website looks at all aspects of the war including the military fronts, the Holocaust, and causalities of all countries involved in WWII.

Readability: The site is easy to navigate through and does not use highly technical language making it easy to understand for middle school and high school students.

Educational Value: While there is no way to determine the site’s credibility, it offers a wealth of information. It has educational value as a starting point for research on WWII as long as students checked the facts presented with another source.

Website 2: The Holocaust: a learning site for students

Content Area and Grade Level: Social Studies, 8th grade Website Name: The Holocaust: a learning site for students Website URL: http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/ Website Description: The website is a branch off of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is organized by theme to present an overview of the Holocaust to secondary students

Bias: Their does not appear to be a bias, only a representation of artifacts such as images, text, and maps to educate students on what the Holocaust is and who it affected.

Author: The site was created by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

When and where: Last modified on May 19, 2011

Accuracy: From my previous knowledge, the information on the website seems to be correct, but it does not list its sources.

Readability: The site is easy to navigate by clicking on themes or timelines that the students are interested in. Pictures are not distracting, but are only used to showcase what the text is reporting. There is a separate gallery for photographs.

Educational Value: This site has tremendous educational value as it traces the Holocaust from when Hitler came to power through rescue and the end of WWII. A unique tool the site includes is a glossary that students can utilize to research terms that they are not familiar with.