Today on class we had to review a blog post of our choice, mine was on "Famous Trials"
I found this site VERY easy to use and very educational. I found myself spending more time looking over the different trials as I was looking for information. It has trials from the BC ear to the current 911 Trials of the people who flew into the twin towers.
From an educational side, this site would be a huge help to students doing research on trials, famous or not, throughout history. There is more information than just what happened in the trial, there is history on the person on trial and what could have made them do something bad.
In teaching this would be an EXCELLENT site to help in History and English to give students more information on a subject they could be studying.
We had to make sure that the information on the site was credible, which I thought was a good teaching tool. If we are going to allow students to use web sites we recommend we need to make sure they are factual. I liked the process we did this by looking at this site from every possible way: who the author was. Where is is from. What his credentials are.....etc. I like how this exercise made me think and not take everything at face value, but explore and find out if things are what they seem.
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