Evaluating a Website
It does not give any information about the individuals that created this site nor were any credentials listed. Things that are said seem to imply they are whites that are against African Americans. One of which that leads me to this is that there is a discussion forum that his hosted by stormfront. When I clicked on that it took me to a page that was about white pride worldwide and it was a stormfront white nationalists community. When looking at the address there is nothing that would lead you to believe that it is a personal site. So it comes down to the Affiliation part of the evaluation. To domain name is .org which when evaluating is less trustworthy then .gov or .edu, to me this seems like it would be a .edu link if it was suppose to be beneficial in learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and what he did. You could not truncate the domain name to learn more about the site itself. I don’t feel the content is suitable for an age level but possibly for older individuals in high school but even then it’s not appropriate to look at within school so therefore it is not appropriate at all. I think even if a teacher was teaching about Martin Luther King Jr. this site would be in no way useful in teaching the material. I think in the Design it loads fast and there are very few graphics and what there is its ok but it could be more user friendly, and I think it is meant to look somewhat dark because these individuals are obviously against Martin Luther King Jr’s thinking. No, not all of the links work and when you look at a link you think it is going to be about one thing and it is something that totally shoots Martin Luther King Jr. down. I do not think this site is appropriate at all and would not use it in any type of learning situation.
