What others have to offer

This week has been a hectic week of project workings and all that fun stress. So, this weeks blog prompt was an interesting divergence. What do others have to offer? How do they match up to our group made marking rubric? One problem I ran across was though I could find sites dedicated to the Kofuns of Japan, non of them utilized their web pages as I imagine creating mine. All the information was on one, extremely long, page, with the tendency to read like a essay than an informative, dynamic web page.

I had mixed feelings about my findings. I was happy in a 'I have the bestest idea' way when I could not find anyone else with an identical topic, yet I was also disheartened that everyone was so different from where I wanted to go with the information. Ultimately I settled on a site that talks about a single Kofun and a star chart that was found inside of it. I though it made an interesting parallel with grave goods (though I would be tempted to put this ornamentation in that category, but I think others would argue differently). ** SITE **

So here is me playing teacher and giving the site its marks:

I deducted 1 point from referencing because 1) it was not Harvard (not really the writer's fault but it is in my criteria) and 2) there seemed to be little thing off with a couple references (though I could be wrong). The pictures seemed sightly off from the content at times, not enough to take away a full mark, but enough that something needed to be deducted. I had to take away 1 point from text because the writing was geared towards academics and was not accessible to a larger audience. Lastly, I really was not drawn by the plain, white appearance. It seemed to detract from the paper and make it that much harder to read.

Overall the site received 19.5/23. Not a bad mark considering that the site was not made with this rubric in mind. It was a well written essay pasted to a web page for others to see. Nothing else really to it.  

hmmm. Definitely makes you think about what makes a good site.