Blog #5 - Evaluation of Website
I do not think the website, http://www.martinlutherking.org, would be appropriate to use in my future classroom. Based on the quote on the opening page to the site, it sounds like the publishers of this website were white and/or were against what Martin Luther King Jr. had accomplished in his lifetime.
“That night King retired to his room at the Willard Hotel. There FBI bugs reportedly picked up 14 hours of party chatter, the clinking of glasses and the sounds of illicit sex–including King’s cries of “I’m f–ing for God” and “I’m not a Negro tonight!”
This site does not use appropriate language that I would want my students to be reading, which is why I would not use it in class. It does not just get to the point of what happened in Martin Luther King Jr’s life, but it seems to discriminate what he did in a way.
Based on this example of a poor informational website or teachable website, children need to be aware that just because it has a common domain or one that would normally seem informational does not mean that it is. Everyone, especially teachers, who are searching for information on the website to use in their classrooms need to make sure that they read everything, becasue URLs can be decieving.
In doing a search on google using “Martin Luther King Jr.” I found that the site listed above came in 3rd on the choices of links. I think it got such a high ranking, because of how it summarizes and introduces the website, the publisher has tweaked it so it will lure the researcher in. This is what it says, now tell me if you wouldn’t think that site would hold the information you might be seeking?
Martin Luther King Jr. - A True Historical Examination
The truth about Martin Luther King: Includes historical trivia, articles and pictures. A valuable resource for teachers and students alike.
